How Does The Language Of 1984 Illustrate Winston's State Of Mind

Winston conceptualizes the inescapable desire to be free through the diary he kept where “The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought; the second had been the opening of the diary. [Winston] had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions” (Orwell 160). Unfortunately, the very people Winston conspired with turned out to be government agents.

It is evident by the first chapter that Winston is not a fool, yet intends to play jester in public and continues the act in private. Winston is trapped in his own thoughts and is in dire need of an escape. He finds this evasive escape in the empty journal from Mr. Charrington. Winston’s diary doesn’t just represent a place where he is left free to throw his empty thoughts, it seems to be more. Winston’s secretive scraps of paper represent a place that the Party has not discovered. A place where he can think peacefully without the overbearing weight of the stress of his life or death daily performances and the rebellious thoughts confined and trapped in his head. The diary is similar to the prole apartment that Julia and Winston share. Winston desires a place that has remained untouched by the powerful influence of Big Brother. Winston and Julia have an elicit affair at the flat, which is punishable by the Party. Winston reads by himself and to Julia a book that has been neither altered nor approved of,

Initially, the imagery of this section is the memory that connects with the reader. This precisely articulated expressions and emotions of the characters brings life to the argument that itself it could not create. The preface to this interrogation, the period of torture Winston suffers, creates the mindset of helplessness and pain before Winston ever even discusses with O’Brien. “Always there were five or six men in black uniforms at him simultaneously. Sometimes it was firsts, sometimes it was truncheons, sometimes it was steel rods, sometimes it was boots. There were times he rolled about on the floor, as shameless as an animal…” (Orwell 263). All of this inhumane torture degraded our protagonist to a decrepit state. For

He panics on what to do thinking big brother found out he even puts a little trap as small as a hair just to to find out if someone is spying at him. Something winston wrote in his journal is” to the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free. When men are different from one another and do not live alone- to a time when truth exist and what is done cannot be undone from the ages of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of big brother from the age of doublethink greetings”. He is writing of how things used to be before it all changed with big

Orwell and McTeigue conceive the concept of a cautionary tale by emphasising the importance of the Individuality through Winston’s submission and V’s immortality. Portrayed throughout the novel as an individual in his ways of thinking with the exception of Julia, Winston meets his demise at the hands of O’brien. Once broken through his fear, the individuality of Winston had shattered leaving him as one in society. Winston’s complete submission is presented through his final meeting with Julia to which all forms of their previous individuality were

I do not mean his death, which is an occurrence of little significance when compared to the events that precede his departure from life. As the State imprisons him and Julia for treason, Winston glows with a hope that he has been able to break out of the system, as being a part of the Brotherhood as allowed him to taste freedom and that was an act of defiance far greater than any militant struggle yet in Room No 101, Winston is slowly, methodically broken down, physically, mentally, and emotionally. O’ Brien comes out of the dark, reveals his true self, maintains that Goldstein was just a fabrication of the State as a valve for public emotion, convinces Winston that “ 2+2=5”. This systematic and almost machine like deconstruction of the human psyche and body is terrifying to witness, as a proof of the power of the State, what Foucault would term as “biopower”. The body of Winston and his mind becomes the arena where the State displays its greatest strength: the power of Room 101 to alter the very consciousness of individuals, to make them believe in constructs they know are false and finally the submission through consent to a system they detest. The final line of the text are Winston’s own thoughts “ He loved Big Brother” which are in such contrast with is earlier private thoughts “ Down with Big Brother”. It is this change wrought by the hands of the State that is of significance in the story. Forcing an individual towards an act that he consciously resists is a common thread in authoritarian regime but having the power to make his commit such an act by inducing consent in his consciousness towards it is the true test of a complete authority. Big Brother is that authority and Winston represents the human populace susceptible to such an

In response to adversity, Winston’s instinct is to resist and to fight back. These attempts at subversion are useless in saving him, for in the end, he is defeated in mind and heart. One way he defies Party rule is by hiding from the telescreen -- an item used for constant surveillance -- and writing in an illegally bought diary from pre-Party times. The act of writing in the diary itself is thoughtcrime, but what he writes in the diary, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”, is treason as well. Winston does this because, chained within himself as he is by his own self-awareness, he desperately seeks an escape from the oppressive walls of lies that have been closing in on him for most of his life. Even without quite knowing why, Winston burns with the need to know the truth, claws at freedom. Rather than being at odds with the Party slogan “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”, it is in perfect agreement with it, because his instinct toward humanity -- a mostly extinct construct -- is what enslaves him to his own destruction. Another way he rebels is by maintaining a secretive (to their knowledge, at least) and sexual relationship with Julia, who is ironically a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League. Since sex for the purpose of satisfaction is highly discouraged by the Party, the sex itself is subversive as it is pleasurable, and “their embrace had been a

All of which brings us to Winston desires and the creature with whom he simultaneously has the relationship that makes his miserable, isolated life worthwhile and the "opeless

There are always two sides to every story and that’s either the truth or the false of a story, you can’t always predict that the Government is saying the truth because now the Government can tell a story that is completely the opposite from the actual story. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell , the character Winston is part of the outer party and he works for Big Brother he is in charge to remove every information that is incorrect or the info that Big Brother doesn’t want the proles to see. Winston then creates Comrade Ogilvy and considered him to be an admiring person. Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch both serve in the military and where in an major accident that the Government considered them a hero for what they did.

Within passage one, it seems as if life is not worth the trouble, that every day life is being lived in conditions which lower ones happiness. Winston during this time was a man who despised the party, he was aware of his inevitable death, which was sure to come the moment he partook in “thoughtcrime”. Within the passage, “Nobody ever escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess.” serves an important part to Winston’s character. He is aware of the fact that any sort of crime will resort in him being caught, and possible death or torture. This is implicit communication, because it is not his own actions that we are observing, but simply fact, that was set down by the author of 1984.

Even though they were caught and give each other up, Winston never lost who he was totally and what he was fighting for due to Julia I believe. 5.) Winston is so determined in his approach to the old man because he wants to know what it was like back in the days and if it was better than it is now. Winston said that “if there was hope it lay in the proles.” So he was hoping the old man would tell him something.

It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate. Winston was just taking his place in one of the middle rows when two people whom he knew by sight, but had never spoken to, came unexpectedly into the room. One of them was a girl whom he often passed in the corridors. He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably -- since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines. She was a bold-looking girl, of about twenty-seven, with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. But

When all of a sudden, this peculiar female gives Winston a note stating that she loves him, by this point, he becomes fascinated with the idea of starting a better association with her. To do the following actions without getting stuck in a horrid predicament with Big Brother, they talk in secret and start to plan out how they could get together effortlessly by staying in a large crowd of people; making them subsidiary targets.

Ranald’s views on Winston’s character are inaccurate and weak because it portrays Winston as an “antihero” (Ranald 250), “passive and not self-aware” (Ranald 253), when actually his character represents

First of all, I’ve always been a sucker for rouge-like, overthrow the government type plotlines, so this section sticks out to me a lot. I also like how it was mentioned that the writing “was no longer the same cramped awkward handwriting as before,” as if it wasn’t actually Winston who wrote it. Somebody else had made him write it. Another way to look at it is it was Winston but a different, untapped side of Winston. It was the side of Winston that not only wanted the