Winstons Predicament in 1984 Essay -- 1984 Literature George Orwell E

Winstons Predicament in 1984The dystopian world George Orwell created for 1984 is a bleak,emotionless place, grey shaded and foul smelling, full of hate anddistrust. The humans that stop it do not live, they are simplyexpected to exist for the sincere of the sinister Party, a totalitariangovernment, while their leader gazes down at them from every w whole,watching their every move. One of these humans, and our protagonist,is Winston Smith. His problems when simplified may take care like theproblems of any other person his lack of freedom, his repressedemotions and his dreaded loneliness. These problems however, areexasperated by the society he lives in.Thought crime, punishable by death, goes so far as to prohibitfreedom of thought, nevermind speech. The Party want their people tobe simply hate machines, incapable of love or even original thought,it wants them to live by slogans instead of natural brain .By theend of the first chapter Winston believes that what he is mentation andfeeling will in conclusion get him killed, and by the middle of the bookhe takes to repeating the precept we are the dead. Right from thebeginning we see this fatalist thinking in all Winston does, as if helives his whole life chthonic a self imposed death sentence. At times itseems he actually does know he will be caught and has just handy hismind to accept this as inevitable. He knows the illegal diary he keepswill be read and could be used to prove him abominable of thought crime,with its scribbled missives of down with Big Brother and hope liesin the proles, and save he carries on writing in it, pouring out his hold back feelings onto the creamy smooth paper. His lack of trustin communications with ... ...escribes the Partys idea of the perfect hereafter society to Winstona boot stamping on a humans locution - forever. Its now we realise thatdespite Winstons death, this will happen in that world if thingscarried on as they were. Its at this point that nearly all hop e islost. Next is the betrayal of Julia, the one last thing retentivenessWinston going. It is a certainty by now that there will be no happyend and that Winston will die and life alfresco in Air Strip One willremain the same. Winstons quandary is not then to do with love andloss, its to do with futility. For all he did, for all the rules hebroke, for all the rebellion he thought and wrote, naught changed.The Party remains in power and no future generations were saved. in spite of all his good intentions Winston dies broken, hopeless andloveless, a non-person who as good as never existed.