How Does Winston Change Throughout The Novel 1984

“ I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”-Emma Watson. This quote relates to the book, 1984 because the character’s are always being shaped in some way. In the book 1984 by George Orwell a country is ruled by Big Brother. Big Brother tells the characters right from wrong, and how they should live their lives. Throughout the story Big Brother constantly shows signs of shaping different characters, and affects them in many ways by pushing his beliefs onto them. Some ways through the actions, development, and theme of the book. Although Big Brother never really shows up in the book he plays a substantial role in influencing the action of the characters. Big Brother affects the actions of the children

He is also able to control their development as people. One main character, Winston struggles to agree with the beliefs of Big Brother. One example of the development of Winston is when he struggles all through the book to believe if 2+2=5. Later on, Big Brother is able to flip Winston’s mind, and get rid of everything Winston believed, and fill it up with what he thinks is right.”And he did see them, for a fleeting instant, before the scenery of his mind changed.” He saw five fingers, and there was no deformity.”(258) After this moment Winston is a new person. He no longer wonders about Big Brother, or about his beliefs. Instead the struggle he had as a character throughout the book is gone. To add onto this idea of Big Brother developing Winston is when he is imprisoned inside the Ministry of Love. During his time here is where all of his emotions that make him stand apart our drained. “Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or the joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity.”(256) These details show how before this moment Winston is able to slightly feel all these things, but afterwards he no longer able to. This is a very important part in the development of Winston because this moment is when he loses everything that makes him

Without Big Brother there wouldn’t be a theme to the book. Oceania is watched constantly by Big Brother and the paroles. They do this through telescreens and hidden microphones, so they can watch and control your actions. “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreens. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: face crime, it was called”() This quote reflects how closely monitored Big Brother has them. This relates to the theme because it’s about what city like this would be like, and Big Brother enforces all the things that make it that. Not only are they watched through telescreens and microscopes, but also through other technics.”In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.”() These are few examples of the way Big Brother affects the theme because