How Does Orwell Define Fear In 1984

Everyone is the world has different fears and these fears lead to differences in the decisions that these people make. Because decisions and actions define a person, fear, love, hate and memory all play roles in the how people are defined. In 1984, by George Orwell, the character Winston Smith bases his decisions in dystopian Oceania on the fears he has and the the amount of fear he has towards different things. Winston and Julia’s relationship, Winston’s use of a diary, and the outcome of Winston’s torture in Room 101 are all addressing his fears and how strong they are. According to 1984, by George Orwell, people are defined by the fears they have and how strong those fears are.

The beginning of Winston and Julia’s relationship was controlled

One of the first times he writes in it he accidently leaves it open on the table when he goes to answer the door. Orwell writes, “But, he realized, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.” Because Winston ultimately decides that he'd rather take an unsmudged book and leave himself more susceptible to getting caught. This is important in defining Winston because it shows that while it still is a fear that is defining him, the fact that this fear is not strong enough in Winston to close the book and ruin his page. In another, different citizen of Oceania, this fear may be intense enough to result in a completely different action. Later in the novel when Winston returns to the junk-shop that he bought the diary in. The fear Winston felt as he returned to the shop is described by Orwell. “A twinge of fear went through him. It had been a sufficiently rash act to buy the book in the beginning, and he had sworn never to come near the place again.” Winston’s feelings of fear are what define him because his reactions to the situation while similar to most is derived from the fear of getting caught by the Thought Police, but when he enters the shop again, his fear of not knowing the past is greater than the fear keeping him out of the shop. This shows the

This is the only time in the novel that it is addressed that all people are different because they all have different fears. O’Brien says to winston, “‘The worst thing in the world,’ said O’Brien, ‘varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement, or fifty other deaths. There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.’” This example of individualism versus the grouping together of the entire population is very important to the idea that fear is what defines someone. The fear of rats defined winston and made that his biggest fear. every person has a fear unique to themselves. These fears separate people into different