George Orwell-1984
Introduction- This story takes place in a state called Oceania. The main characters
introduced are Winston Smith who is a worker on one of the four branches of government on
Oceania. This four branches are "The Ministry of Truth" where they falsificate or remove
all past documents such as books, newspapers, magazines, records, tapes and anything
containing information about the past and are rewritten with the "accurate" meaning of
whatever the Government (known as "Big Brother") wants it to be. All past records are
erased and everyone must believe what the new ones say or else they are caught by the
Thought Police. The Thought Police are a group of modern people who are like the police
of our time except that this police can see you every single second of your life through
special devices that look like T.V.'s called Telescreens. This Telescreens are placed in
the houses of people, outside buildings, parks, walls, anywhere they could be put and are
always turned on. The Telescreens are constantly giving you information of the wars won
and also telling you what to do and always watching every movement you do, no expressions
are admitted in Oceania other than hatred or the one "Big Brother" tells you to. The
second branch is called "The Ministry of Love" where people were punished, tortured and
were taught to hate each other. The third branch is called "The Ministry of Plenty" where
economic affairs were handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always
being too little of a ration. The last branch is called "The Ministry of Peace" which
handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit and who
they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read "WAR IS PEACE", "FREEDOM
IS SLAVERY" and "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH". Winston worked in the Ministry of truth where
he's job was to rewrite the news on the newspaper called Times. Another character is
O'Brien who helps Winston love Big Brother for Winston hated Big Brother. Julia is the
girl that falls in love (which is a very big crime) with Winston. Katharine is Winston's
wife though he hasn't seen her for three years. Eastasia and Eurasia are the two other
states fighting for power with Oceania. The proles are the only people who are not
controlled so much by Big Brother, they act as we do and can have their own believes,
thoughts, feelings or anything they feel like. Emmanuel Goldstein is the boss of an
underground brotherhood that wants to destroy Big Brother.
Conflict- There are uncountable conflicts on this novel but the main one is the struggle
of Winston to disobey Big Brother and try to rebel against it and destroy it trying to
bring back the original past of mankind.
Climax- The climax of this story is when Winston and Julia join this secret brotherhood
commanded by Emmanuel Goldstein who's sole purpose is to destroy Big Brother by opening
the eyes of people by a secret book that didn't have a name, it was just called "the
book" which contained the beliefs of Emmanuel as to what Big Brother was doing.
Falling Action- The falling action here is when after Winston and Julia have sex in their
own little hiding place which was a room who they rented from Mr. Charrington (who was
really O'Brien in disguise) in a place where the proles lived, the Thought Police,
commanded by O'Brien catch them and takes them to the Ministry of love where they are
punished, humiliated and are made to confess everything and anything that they ever knew
while being tortured by O'Brien. Winston betrays everything he loved by punishment and is
made to betray everyone and everything he believed in by facing his greatest terror which
is rats.
Conclusion- The conclusion is that after a few months or years of rehabilitation, Winston
is taught to obey Big Brother and love him even though his mind tells him otherwise and
he also has to learn how to control his mind to suit whatever Big Brother says is true or
not such as 2+2 being 5 and not 4, and he knew it was 5 because Big Brother said so and
there was no proof of it being incorrect. After he gets rehabilitated they send him off
out of the Ministry of love and is killed by a bullet that enters his head and finally at
the end he knows that he now loved Big Brother even though Big Brother had killed him for
he never betrayed Big Brother after his rehabilitation.
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