The main character Winston Smith lives in the large political country Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two huge countries, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant correction of news. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past," the pa

In 1984 you see the Party kill Winston Smith's individuality. "Winston Smith, the hero of the novel, is shown arming himself with ideas against the Party and defying it by forming a sexual relationship with Julia: but from the first we know that he will not escape the secret police, and after he is caught we see him undergoing a dreadful metamorphosis which burns out his human essence, leaving him a wreck who can go on living only by becoming on of them" (Rahv 313). It is sad that Winston can't overcome the power of the Party. It seems all faith in a pleasant future will be stopped by the Party.

Irving Howe. 1984 Revisited (New York: Harper and Row, Inc.,1983)

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