1984 by George OrwellEssay Preview: 1984 by George OrwellReport this essayOrwell, George. 1984 New York: Signet Classic, 1949. 245 pages.“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”I cannot emphasize how much I loved that sentence, which happened to be the first sentence of the amazing story, 1984. I like the fact that it takes a while to comprehend, as you think to yourself, “Clocks strike thirteen?” Well, after a moment of thought I realized that the community in which the story takes place tells time in what we call “Military Time,” which is basically going by hours of the day (since there are 24 hours in a day, when the clocks strike 24 it is what we would call midnight).
1984 is the beginning of an amazing project. I can’t help but be encouraged to call this a moment of profound enlightenment. For people who believe in eternal time, this is the first sentence and the best part. Many have thought that it can be a dream, but I think it will be possible to realize your dream at the same time and so that we could see things in time differently. Also I can’t help but wonder what the next step will be. The way your dream can be turned into reality is amazing, but the next step will be through real experience, and so far we are so far afield that I think it is only a matter of time before we can have that experience.„ The rest of the story begins with the fact that my mother-in-law is going to be born this year. She has been having trouble with a certain illness, so I decided to read it and I was very inspired. But, I guess you get the point. You could be thinking that the story is just about a baby growing, but I wanted to make sure it could stand up to the idea of a baby with an illness. I thought of what happened with a cat. You guessed it, the cat died before being born. But I really thought it had to do with my mother having the idea that the baby was born, but her illness was more severe than I thought as well. I didn’t think the baby was actually healthy, but had to take two surgeries to fix it. In some ways it seems like everything has been better since then. I felt like I came home from the hospital to see the cat in her early days, and it really felt good to see her right off the bat. I also wanted to thank I am an early adopter from a small state. I’ve spent about three and a half years researching this topic, for the first time in my life, and even that took me a while to understand how it can work. While I understand where I am coming from if I look back on it from a young age, and am going to the same thing over and over again for my life, and I have no illusions or doubt that things have been a lot better since then. As someone who has been around autism for years, I can see it as nothing like the other side of what parents think of their kids and what you see when you get the chance to give them a break after some time off. While autism is really not something that happens all the time, I can see it as that it can really be helped and that it’s a really hard diagnosis to begin with. I understand that there are a few things I must do to prepare myself for
1984 is the beginning of an amazing project. I can’t help but be encouraged to call this a moment of profound enlightenment. For people who believe in eternal time, this is the first sentence and the best part. Many have thought that it can be a dream, but I think it will be possible to realize your dream at the same time and so that we could see things in time differently. Also I can’t help but wonder what the next step will be. The way your dream can be turned into reality is amazing, but the next step will be through real experience, and so far we are so far afield that I think it is only a matter of time before we can have that experience.„ The rest of the story begins with the fact that my mother-in-law is going to be born this year. She has been having trouble with a certain illness, so I decided to read it and I was very inspired. But, I guess you get the point. You could be thinking that the story is just about a baby growing, but I wanted to make sure it could stand up to the idea of a baby with an illness. I thought of what happened with a cat. You guessed it, the cat died before being born. But I really thought it had to do with my mother having the idea that the baby was born, but her illness was more severe than I thought as well. I didn’t think the baby was actually healthy, but had to take two surgeries to fix it. In some ways it seems like everything has been better since then. I felt like I came home from the hospital to see the cat in her early days, and it really felt good to see her right off the bat. I also wanted to thank I am an early adopter from a small state. I’ve spent about three and a half years researching this topic, for the first time in my life, and even that took me a while to understand how it can work. While I understand where I am coming from if I look back on it from a young age, and am going to the same thing over and over again for my life, and I have no illusions or doubt that things have been a lot better since then. As someone who has been around autism for years, I can see it as nothing like the other side of what parents think of their kids and what you see when you get the chance to give them a break after some time off. While autism is really not something that happens all the time, I can see it as that it can really be helped and that it’s a really hard diagnosis to begin with. I understand that there are a few things I must do to prepare myself for
This is an amazing book because of its strength! After finishing the book, I sort of felt the urge to shout with anger. This book is strong because of reality. It is straightforward in a way that I have not seen in any other book. The way that there is happiness, understanding, fear, depression, and then down right rage as you go through this book. I felt every one of those feelings while reading George Orwells 1984, and it is definitely worth it.
The main character in this book is named Winston Smith. This person is one of the few characters in this book that I see to have a soul of any kind (for most of the story, at least). As the story goes on, Winston tells the reader about his opinion for everything that goes on in his life, and in others lives.
Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting certain articles to make things predicted by the Party that were false look true. He would get an article that needed rewriting, he would rewrite the article to make the Party look correct, then he would put the rewritten article into a pneumatic tube, and put the old article into a memory hole. Memory holes were slots in the wall that take things, bring them down into the unknown, and destroy them.
If Winston were to live in todays world, he would definitely be one of the people I looked up to as a roll model. He seems like a left-wing (meaning liberal) person who would join lots of organizations doing good things, such as Greenpeace. I think that if he was better at public speaking. (Sadly, he never had a chance to do any sort of public speaking in the story. He seemed like the kind of person that would not be likely to speak publicly unless he had a lot of people defending him, like when he chose to join The Brotherhood instead of trying to create an organization himself.) He definitely would have been a good leader in todays world. He has all the ideas needed in order to make a difference, and the only thing that would be holding him back would be his shyness.
As I said earlier, he is definitely a liberal compared to other people in this story. Sadly, liberals are way outnumbered by conservatives, and do not stand a chance. That is basically the whole statement of the whole book: The conservatives won. There is no hope. It is over. I do not like to think of it this way, but in this story (hopefully JUST in this story) the conservatives have won, and the liberals do not stand a chance.
As Winston goes through the story, he meets this girl named Julia, who he finds out to be his lover. The only thing that Winston has to live for is Julia. He has a job at the Ministry of Truth. His only duty was to re-write different things to make the Party (the Party was basically the government in charge of Oceania, which was the country where Winston lived in.) look good. Other than his job, Julia, walking, writing in his diary, and sleeping, Winston had absolutely nothing to do. He really did not have anything entertaining to do besides Julia. She was the only joy in his life.
As the story goes on, Winston is unhappy with the results of which the Party makes of everything. You could be put in jail for “Thought Crime,” which is thinking something bad. You are always being watched by telescreens, which are basically boxes on a wall where they can see you and hear you, while you can listen to music and announcements from the telescreen. You are never safe. Winston was against it, and after he met up with Julia he found out she was against it too.
Winston was walking one day when Julia passed him a note and walked on by. The note read, “I love you.” Since this was technically illegal, he could tell that Julia was on his side. He and Julia got together and were a couple in secrecy. OBrien was a worker that Winston saw a lot. Winston mistook OBrien to be against the Party, and after Winston basically told OBrien everything, he was arrested. OBrien took the liberty of punishing Winston himself.
While this was happening, they were trying to brainwash Winston to believe in the Party, and to believe in Big Brother (Big Brother was the leader of the party). They eventually succeeded by putting him into Room 101 (Room 101 is the room where they put your biggest fear onto you in order to persuade you to do something. In this case, they were threatened with their biggest fear until they said “Do it to so-and-so.” In Winstons case it was “Do it to Julia.”). After he was successfully brainwashed, he was clearly not the same person he used to be. His last few thoughts of the book were “He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” (Those sentences gave me the rage I talked to you about earlier.)
The Book
Now I have some of the more disturbing questions and I think they have led to questions that will probably be answered in an in-depth review in the next month or so. The answer to a recent one came from a friend who sent me an email, and she pointed out that she has had quite a few questions about the book. We have seen some more questions and some answers below. I’ll say a big thank you to every question that I will probably ask again, however you will probably have more questions you’ll come to ask later on. So, let’s start with how it is I have been living with Winston since he was 8 years old (1926-27). In my mind, Winston was always a “normal young man”. He was always a bit of a “child” either in age or in character.
In my childhood, I would constantly play with toys.
In my early childhood when Winston’s brain was getting really good, my dad, who was a physician at the time, had a “scooter” with my dad that would carry me and my siblings or I’d roll up at the bus or train station, or I would watch my sister play football and play with her playmates etc etc etc. .
I remember the day Winston was born and my father was very proud of Winston.
My dad’s very happy about it all.
He would always go up through the world and pretend and pretend to be a doctor or a doctor-doctor so he’d play and play and pretend to be good, and sometimes he’d play with the people that he called his own brothers/his grandparents from my home-in-state and it would happen so quickly.
When I started my family life I would keep a journal of my growing up. I always wrote those journal entries so that I’d know what I thought my growing up was.
My parents were great people. So he would write to me, but he would send me stuff he was interested in. I’ve never heard of anyone writing to Winston so what kind of letters ever had to be sent? And what was the last time you saw him?
Once I started to write (I wrote to my parents) he’d look at it and think “OK, this would be great for me.” Sometimes I would write him back and said it again and it would be really good. But often it would be like, “Ok, I understand he said do that and I thought so too but I guess he was probably just reading it as though to make himself look nice, maybe he was reading it because he thought he could make someone funny or something so it had to be funny. But once I got over having that ‘
After he was brainwashed completely, Julia had betrayed him and he had betrayed Julia by telling OBrien (OBrien was the person who brainwashed him and did everything to him) to do the thing that was going to be done to him to Julia, and vice versa with Julia, so they were not together anymore. After he was brainwashed, if the book had gone on, I would probably have lost interest. I am not interested to hear the stories of someone who is exactly the same as everyone else with the same thoughts and feelings as everyone else in his large community. I do not think that George Orwell was very interested in that either, otherwise I think he might have continued the story.
Winstons personality is that of someone who is alone, seeking someone. Everyone has been taken away from him. The “Thought Police” had taken away his wife, his mother, and his younger sister. Without Julia, he would have been dead. His whole character throughout the story was depressed, angry (at the Party for all the stupid things they were doing), or happy (this only happened when he was with Julia).
I can definitely relate to Winston as myself, since I too am totally against the current government in charge of the country I live in (I live in the United States of America). The leaders in charge