Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, experienced conflict stemming from his time in Burma as a colonial police officer, where he witnessed the oppressive nature of British imperialism and its impact on the local population. His complex feelings of hatred towards the Burmese were intertwined with his disdain for the imperial system itself, leading to an internal struggle between his duty as an enforcer of colonial rule and his growing empathy for the oppressed. This conflict fueled his later writings, where he critiqued both colonialism and the broader themes of power and exploitation. Ultimately, Orwell's experiences in Burma shaped his understanding of societal injustices, influencing his literary voice and political philosophy.

I think one can argue that the entire book is based upon paranoia, both by the government and by Winston. The government targets its party members out of suspicion that he/she is trying to bring down Big Brother when often, that person is completely innocent. So because they are so paranoid, they build a nation full of fear and create the Thought Police to try seek out any possible threat of treason, even when there may be nothing there. It is not necessarily the truth that there are people trying to bring them down, but it's the thought of it that drives them to drastic measures of interrogating, torturing, and killing its "dangerous" party members.

As for the people, they as a whole do not express as much paranoia because they are brainwashed from birth into thinking that the party always knows what's best and if the party says they did something wrong, then it must be true. But through Winston's eyes, he lives his life fearful that the Thought Police are out to get him and that one day, he will be "fixed." In the beginning of the book, he is so paranoid that the Thought Police will look through his things that he places white dust on his diary to let himself know that it was not touched (even though the party outsmarts him in the end anyway). Although Winston is constantly petrified that he will be caught, he still cannot control his impulses and goes against the party even though he eventually learns that his best efforts to remain safe will be useless in the end.

He occasionally deliberately lets Standard English words slip through unnoticed when he is meant to be converting them into 'Newspeak', the form of compacted and limited language that the regime favours because it limits people from expressing their dissent against the regime into words.

Winston Smith is the protagonist of the novel 1984 by George Orwell. He is an unhappy member of the Outer Party and a worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston can see through the Ingsoc way of manipulating. He hates the Party and the Big Brother but can only does so secretly because expressing opposition in any slightest way would cost him his life.

Thought-crime is the act of thinking anything that defies The Party's philosophy, which mostly involes thoughts of rebellion against the party. The penalty is often vaporization, which is the complete removal of an individual's life and existence, but in some cases, the criminal is simply sent to work in a forced labour camp for a set amount of years, before returning to their position in society.

Hate Week is designed to increase the hatred for the current enemy of the Party whichever of the two opposing superstates it is. During Hate Week in the book, someone shouted out death to East Aisa in a speech, even though they had previously been at war with Euraisa. After that, all documents referencing a war with Euraisa were destroyed. However, everyone in the crowd immediately believed that they had always been at war with East Aisa.

Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth (Minitru)

The book never says she is. so...she COULD be,but it's reaaaally doubtful. O.o

To use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

George Orwell 1984 (and his other work Fahrenheit 451) fall into the genre of dystopic futures and politically precautionary tales. In 1984 Orwell warned as to the dangers of omnipresent governmental powers and lack of all privacy.

I don't think George Orwell meant harm when he wrote the book. I read that he suffered from a neglected disease and that can't of made him feel good. His view of humanity was probably pessimistic at the time. But the thought of animals taking over is disturbing.

The dark-haired girl in 1984, is Julia. Who later becomes Winston Smith's love/sex interest.

The Ministry of Love, which concerns itself with torture and interrogation.

The Ministry of Truth, which concerns itself with rewriting the past.

The Ministry of Plenty, which concerns itself with the rationing of goods.

The Ministry of Peace, which concerns itself with war.

All I could find was this:
After seeing a young boy whipping a carthorse, Orwell had the idea to make his story A FABLE.

I GOT THIS FROM http://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/
4TH STANZA (PARAGRAPH) DOWN 1ST SENTENCE!

page 99, 154, 158, & 232! = )

Unhappy people or people with a sullen look on their faces were considered to be breaking the law. If you are unhappy, don't spread your unhappiness around to others. The cops would correct this face crime with an involuntary drug trip.

Winston now makes a serious attempt to find a connection with the past. Winston knows that his actions mean certain torture and death, yet he continues to search, hoping that he is not alone, that someone else feels as he does. This is the first time in the novel that Winston actively reaches out to the past, to his curiosity and obsession with memory and history, and it is this action that seals his fate. At this point, Winston wonders if he is the only one who remembers the past.

It's used to lull them into a false sense of security and belief that O'Brien is on their side- by sharing a toast it seems to them like a pledge of unity and solidarity, making it easier for the Inner Party to trap them when they least expect it.

One of the main points to Orwell's novel is the danger of language being manipulated to the point that words no longer have the meanings they once had thus enabling the state/government to control thought itself in order to control what people think about because the symbols associated with the word(s) no longer have the meaning they originally possessed .

separate and never see each other again

The main protagonist in George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is Winston Smith .

"The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats."
"the plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls, the pipes burst in every hard frost, the roof leaked whenever there was snow, the heating system was usually running at half stream."
"Everything had a battered, trampled-on look."
"the ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape".