Julia is Winston Smith’s love-interest and his ally in the struggle against Big Brother. She represents the elements of humanity that Winston does not: pure sexuality, cunning, and survival. While Winston simply manages to survive, Julia is a true survivalist, using any means necessary to conduct her self-centered rebellion. Her […]
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Winston Smith is the protagonist of 1984. He is the character that the reader most identifies with, and the reader sees the world from his point of view. Winston is a kind of innocent in a world gone wrong, and it is through him that the reader is able to […]
Read more Character Analysis Winston SmithSummary and Analysis Part 3: Appendix
Summary The appendix to 1984 is Orwell’s explanation of Oceania’s official language, Newspeak, of which there are many examples throughout the text, such as doublethink and duckspeak, and discusses the purpose for its conception. Newspeak consists of the A vocabulary, the B vocabulary, and the C vocabulary. The A vocabulary […]
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Summary Winston Smith is at the Chestnut Tree Cafe, drinking Victory Gin and listening to the telescreens. At an announcement about the war with the Eurasian army, Winston feels a mixture of excitement and dread. He seems concerned about the outcome of today’s battles. He writes in the dust on […]
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Summary Winston Smith is still in the Ministry of Truth, but the torture has lessened, and his physical condition is improving. He dreams of sitting in the Golden Country with his mother, Julia, and O’Brien, talking of peaceful things. He discovers that the Party had been watching him very closely […]
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Summary Winston Smith is lying on a camp bed, where he has been for many days, being tortured almost constantly. O’Brien oversees Winston’s “treatment.” Finally, O’Brien personally takes over, torturing Winston when he does not give the correct answer to the questions O’Brien asks, many of which have to do […]
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Summary Winston Smith finds himself inside the Ministry of Love in a cell with no windows and a telescreen watching his every move. He meets a drunk woman, a cell mate, who tells him that her name is also Smith and that she could be his mother, a fact that […]
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Summary Winston Smith is exhausted after working many long hours in the Ministry of Truth, helping to “rectify” the misinformation in all of the documents published by the Party for the past five years. As a result of a change in enemy, history must be rewritten. Having received “the book” […]
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Summary Awakening from a troubling dream, Winston Smith tells Julia that he is responsible for the death of his mother. He recalls being hungry as a child and begging for food. One day, he stole a piece of chocolate from his small, weak sister and ran outside to eat it, […]
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Summary Winston Smith is back at work and Syme, the Newspeak expert, has vanished. Preparations for Hate Week are going on all over London. Winston and Julia still meet in Mr. Charrington’s room over the junk shop. Both are now aware that what they have together cannot last long. They […]
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