Essays on Winston Smith

Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in 1948 and published in 1949. Nineteen Eighty Four is a social science fiction novel which gives the reader an idea on how the world will be like under a totalitarian form of government. The story takes place in Oceania and the main character in the novel is Winston Smith. The "1984" novel carries a warning to the society on where it is heading to. The paperback is divided into three different parts. Part one shows the main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in and how it ...

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Question 1 In “Brideshead Revisited”, the character Rex Mottram is for the larger part of the story in a relationship with Julia. Rex appears to very deeply in love with Julia and is also a great friend to other characters including Sebastian, Boy and Charles, who he, for example, helps with their jail situation. He plans to marry Julia and in fact does so, but he maintains an illicit affair with Brenda. Julia confronts him, but he cannot understand why she is so upset. Julia is a devout Christian and tries to put a stop to Rex antics including fooling around, but ...

George Orwell’s book, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,' most of the times published as ‘1984’ is a fascinating book. Published in 1949, the book talks about how the ‘Inner Party’ elite persecute individualism. In addition, independent thinking, described by the writer as ‘thoughtcrimes’ is also depicted. The leads character is called Winston Smith. Winston Smith is a man who works for what the writer calls ‘the Ministry of Truth.' The name that he uses for this Ministry is ‘Minitrue.' Tyranny is a theme that is also explored by the writer (NovelGuide). Psychology is defined as ‘the scientific study of human behavior and ...

1984 by George Orwell

Introduction

In 1984 by George Orwell, the lead character Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth based in London the main city of Airstrip One. Big Brother gazes from every poster and the Thought Police uncovers all acts of betrayal. When Winston Smith develops feelings for Julia, he experiences changes in his deadening and dull life as he opens up to new and optimistic possibilities. Despite police helicopters hovering and circling overhead, Julia and Winston start to question the motives of the Party and get drawn towards conspiracy. 1984 is the frightening story of a possible ...

George Orwell’s novel 1984 opens with the protagonist, Winston Smith, lounging around his grey depressing apartment in London. He is alone in the first scene, and throughout much of the novel remains that way. Essentially, everyone within the dystopian society within the book is separated from the society they are a part of. Winston lives in a dingy apartment where his government constantly monitors him. There is essentially no freedom, and ceaseless war. Orwell was not just writing a fictional dystopian thriller, but was making important political statements about where culture could be headed if the people of a society allowed ...

The word ‘Philosophy’ originated from the words ‘Philo’ and ‘Sophia’ meaning love and wisdom. Philosophy is concerned with all inquiries, pursuit and practices of wisdom. It specifically entails a systematic human study of their perceptions, thinking and reasoning. One might say that a man/woman without a philosophy is a man/woman without a direction. This is because people live in accordance to the digestion of what they perceive their environments. This paper will take an analytic view of the effects of philosophical beliefs to human life. Discussion will base on the character analysis in the ‘narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass’ by Frederick Douglass, ‘ ...

INTRODUCTION

George Orwell was well renowned by his pseudonym name in several of Eric Arthur Blair who was a great English writer of all times. He wrote quite few books of most of them best sellers. 1984 was one of his most influential book and the most worldwide acclaimed animal farm that he published in 1944. These are considered his most metaphorical approach to his sentiment and attitude in his approach to soviet Russia (Orwell, George.1977 p. 200.) Written in 1948 the novel 1984 by George Orwell was an approach about the future. It presents a clear and outstanding view of what ...

1984 - Freedom

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of literature's most potent and well-known dystopian futures is realized. The Party, a dictatorship that controls every aspect of the world called Oceania, keeps its people in line through the use of surveillance, strict rules about society and behavior, and huge gaps in class and income. Big Brother, the so-called leader of the Party, is always watching - as a result, people are less inclined to rebel or step out of line. Sexuality is repressed, as is religion and free thought. In the midst of all this, Winston Smith wishes to rebel ...

1984 - The Women, the Party, and Identity

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of literature's most potent and well-known dystopian futures is realized. The Party, a dictatorship that controls every aspect of the world called Oceania, keeps its people in line through the use of surveillance, strict rules about society and behavior, and huge gaps in class and income. Big Brother, the so-called leader of the Party, is always watching - as a result, people are less inclined to rebel or step out of line. Sexuality is repressed, as is religion and free thought. In the midst of all this, ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet features one of the most complex, interesting and tragic cast of characters ever depicted on the stage and in Western literature. However, of particular interest are the women of the play - depicted solely by Hamlet's mother Gertrude and love interest Ophelia. In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dystopian future of "The Party" is seen through the eyes of Winston Smith and his lover, the seemingly-prim Julia. Far from the stereotypical damsels in distress, these characters are strong, complex and multifaceted. In this paper, we will examine these characters in detail to show just how interesting these ...

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Winston Smith – hero or not?

George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare, Nineteen-Eighty Four, published in 1948 was become a part of global culture with its pessimistic portrayal of a future England, now known as Airstrip One (a tiny part of huge world power called Oceania), under a the totalitarian rule of the Party – which masquerades behind a mask of socialist and communist rhetoric, but, in reality, is simply a state designed to maintain power in the hands of an élite. Orwell had seen at first-hand the machinations of the Russian Communist Party when he took part in the Spanish Civil War and had written Animal Farm, ...