1984 Book Reports

It’s everywhere you look. Mounted on almost every street corner in Airstrip one. Big Brother is watching you; he is always there wherever you glance, staring into your soul. The city is dull and depressing. If you are looking for privacy, it’s most certainly not in Oceania. A telescreen vigorously monitors all the citizens in the city. It’s observers and detects every sound you make, every move you attempt, every breath you breathe, and every heartbeat you exchange. All around the town there are old dilapidated buildings, with beaten up walls and unpolished stairwells. The food in the city is artificial and distributed out un-evenly between the members of the community. The minimal income causes citizens to be frantic and stressed. Working …show more content…
The four issues in the story that Winston struggles with is conflicts with technology, conflicts with society, conflicts with others and internal conflicts. The conflict with technology begins with the telescreen. The telescreen means no privacy, so Winston can’t be free and do what he pleases. Winston knows that writing in his journal means he is writing his death certificate. He struggles with thought crime and worries about the telescreen detecting it, and the thought police coming to get him in his sleep. Winston wants to rebel against the party, but he doesn’t want to die. Winston also battles with society conflicts as well. The conflicts that arise from the society identifies with the party. From the beginning of the book we see Winston doubting the party and all the rules that follow it. We see Winston start doing rebellious acts that show his disaffiliation with the party. However, going against the party is a conflict because Winston is taking a huge risk not trusting in Big Brother and is jeopardizing his life. Winston can’t trust the people surrounding him because everyone is an active follower of Big Brother. We learn from the book, that you are either for the government, or for no one at all. Winston also tussles with conflicts involving others. Winston has conflicts in the beginning of the story with Julia. He starts discovering issues with Julia, also known as the …show more content…
These emotional conflictions also place a view on the setting of the novel. Throughout the book we see flashbacks from Winston. He dreams about where his mother and sister are and if they were taken by the party when he was younger. Winston has anger every time he thinks about his mother and sister, but he is also just trying to piece together what actually happened. He believes they have gone away for Winston to allow him to live his life. He is distraught with this idea because he doesn’t understand why they would sacrifice this for him. Winston was eating chocolate, and then had a flashback revealing him going outside and then back inside to look and see his mother and sister missing. He hasn’t seen them since, and it makes Winston very sad. Winston also has dreams about the “Golden Country” and meeting O’Brien “in a place where there is no darkness”. Both of these are foreshadowing something and have significance to the setting of the story. The Golden Country signifies what 1984 would be in a perfect and normal society. We as readers get a perspective and get to see how horrible there society is. The “place where there is no darkness” is actually the ministry of truth. We find this out later in the book when Winston gets caught and is taken to get brainwashed. The Ministry of Truth is never dark and he finds O’Brien there, except O’Brien isn’t on his side. Throughout the story Winston has had a