Thebook took place in London, England during the year 1984. "Airstrip One" was London's alternatereality in the novel. Winston Smith was the protagonist of the novel throughwhose eyes the reader experiences the nightmarish world that Orwell envisions.

One of the maincharacters in 1984 was Winston Smith. He was a minor member of the ruling party in near-future London. Winston was a very thin and frail man. He was 39 years old and extremelyintellectual, contemplative, and was very much a defeatist. Winston hated the totalitarian control andenforced repression from his government. He was one to hold on to a revolutionary dream. Winston was extremely pensive and curious,desperate to understand how and why the Party exercised such absolute power inOceania. Besides his thoughtful nature,Winston's main attributes are his rebelliousness and his fatalism. He hated the Party pa

Now,what I say should be taken with a grain of salt. While Orwell hatedtotalitarianism, he considered himself a socialist. And as a side note, I don'tthink that Orwell really meant to criticize socialism. I just think that's howmost critics end up interpreting many of the point made by Orwell in 1984.

Winston's lover was Julia. She was a very beautiful dark-haired girl who worked in the fictiondepartment of the ministry of youth. Julia claimed to have had many affairs with Party members and she verymuch enjoyed sex. She was a pragmaticand optimistic young woman. Winston sawtheir affair as essentially temporary; his fatalistic attitude made him unableto imagine his relationship with her as one to last long. Julia, on the other hand, was well adaptedto her chosen forms of small-scale rebellion. In general, Julia contrasts with Winston. Apart form their mutual sexual desire and hatred of the Party,most of their traits weren't similar, if not contradictory. Her rebellion against the Party was smalland personal for her own enjoyment. Thatcontrasts to Winston's ideological motivation. Julia was 26, 13 years younger than Winston. His childhood took place largely before the Party came to poweraround 1960. On the other hand, Juliawas a child of the Party era, and many of the things that upset Winston themost about the Party, didn't even faze her. She hated the party as did Winston and she saw through many of itstechniques. For instance, sheunderstood that the Party uses sexual repression to control thepopulation. She even had a betterintuitive grasp or the Party's methods than Winston did, planning their affairand often explaining aspects of the Party to him. But the Party's major control of history did not interest ortrouble her the way it did Winston, because she didn't remember a time when theParty was not in control.

Thepoint is this ... 1984 simply proves the concept of a "slippery slope"which serves to justify a lot of societal paranoia. This basically refers tothe notion that freedoms can be taken away from society in small bits andpieces, and things generally go unnoticed until society has had all of itsfreedoms cruelly and savagely ripped away. (It's kind of like the analogy abouthow you can boil a frog to death if you just turn the heat up real gradually.)

Second,the prole woman singing outside the window. Winston had already thought andwritten in his diary that any hope for the future must come from the proles.The virile prole woman singing outside the window became a symbol of thehoped-for future to Winston; he imagined her bearing the children who would oneday overthrow the Party.

ssionately and wantedto test the limits of its power; he committed innumera

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