![]() ![]() Winston essentially sees their affair as temporary his fatalistic attitude makes him unable to imagine his relationship with Julia lasting very long. Winston longs to join the Brotherhood and read Emmanuel Goldstein’s abstract manifesto Julia is more concerned with enjoying sex and making practical plans to avoid getting caught by the Party. Whereas Winston is restless, fatalistic, and concerned about large-scale social issues, Julia is sensual, pragmatic, and generally content to live in the moment and make the best of her life. Julia: is Winston’s lover and the only other person who Winston can be sure hates the Party and wishes to rebel against it as he does.Winston lives in a world in which legitimate optimism is an impossibility lacking any real hope, he gives himself false hope, fully aware that he is doing so But because he believes that he will be caught no matter what he does, he convinces himself that he must continue to rebel. Deep down, he knows that these risks will increase his chances of being caught by the Party he even admits this to O’Brien while in prison. Thinking that he is helpless to evade his doom, Winston allows himself to take unnecessary risks, such as trusting O’Brien and renting the room above Mr. As soon as he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his diary, Winston is positive that the Thought Police will quickly capture him for committing a thoughtcrime. One reason for Winston’s rebellion, and eventual downfall, is his sense of fatalism-his intense (though entirely justified) paranoia about the Party and his overriding belief that the Party will eventually catch and punish him. By the end of the novel, Winston’s rebellion is revealed as playing into O’Brien’s campaign of physical and psychological torture, transforming Winston into a loyal subject of Big Brother. The effort Winston puts into his attempt to achieve freedom and independence ultimately underscores the Party’s devastating power. Winston hates the Party passionately and wants to test the limits of its power he commits innumerable crimes throughout the novel, ranging from writing “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his diary, to having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting himself secretly indoctrinated into the anti-Party Brotherhood. ![]() Apart from his thoughtful nature, Winston’s main attributes are his rebelliousness and his fatalism. Winston’s long reflections give Orwell a chance to explore the novel’s important themes, including language as mind control, psychological and physical intimidation and manipulation, and the importance of knowledge of the past. Whereas Julia is untroubled and somewhat selfish, interested in rebelling only for the pleasures to be gained, Winston is extremely pensive and curious, desperate to understand how and why the Party exercises such absolute power in Oceania. His personal tendency to resist the stifling of his individuality, and his intellectual ability to reason about his resistance, enables the reader to observe and understand the harsh oppression that the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police institute. The reader experiences the nightmarish world that Orwell envisions through the eyes of the protagonist, Winston. Winston Smith: Orwell’s primary goal in 1984 is to demonstrate the terrifying possibilities of totalitarianism.Goldstein allows the Party to encourage Two Minutes Hate and other fear mongering. The Book was actually created and collaborated on by O’Brien. Goldstein’s persona is as an enemy of the state – the national nemesis used to ideologically unite Oceanians with the Party, purported author of “the book” ( The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism), and leader of the Brotherhood. Emmanuel Goldstein - a former Party leader, bespectacled and with a goatee beard like the Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky (an original leader of the Bolshevik Revolution whose real last name was Bronstein and who, after losing to Stalin in the struggle for power, was deported from the USSR and after some years writing against the Soviet regime was eventually murdered).Joseph Stalin), whom few people have seen, if anyone. Big Brother : the dark-eyed, mustachioed embodiment of the Party governing Oceania ( viz. ![]()
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