1984 George Orwell Analysis
Orwell's 1984
Eleven years prior to the beginning of the action in 1984, Winston Smith accidentally comes across a photograph of three men: Jones, Aronson, and Rutherford. The "party" had contrived a plot to prove the three guilty of treason. The picture, however, because of its true location and date in relation to the party's false scenario, shows the men's innocence. The picture provides Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, with "concrete, unmistakable evidence of falsification" of the past (64). Winston finally realizes, eleven years after the fact, that he held in his hands a document that could "blow the party to atoms" (67). For thirteen seconds before sending the picture into the memory chute, Winston Smith had in his hands the fate of Oceania. Winston latently wants that power again, and the novel is propelled by that desire.
Winston's entries in the diary that he bought from Mr. Charrington provide the first signs of his desire to regain that power. However, writing what he can remember as the …show more content…
Winston tells Julia that the paperweight is "a message from one hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it" (121). It is a message because Winston wants it to be a message. From the very beginning, he wonders if one purpose of writing in his diary might be to appeal to the future (26). He is miserable, and he hopes for a better future where, as in the past, "[...] truth exists and what is done cannot be undone" (27). Also, just before they realize that they have been caught together in Mr. Charrington's room (conveniently after Hate Week, when their services to the party were essential), Winston believed that one could share in the idealized future he had for the Proles "[...] if one passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four"
Eleven years prior to the beginning of the action in 1984, Winston Smith accidentally comes across a photograph of three men: Jones, Aronson, and Rutherford. The "party" had contrived a plot to prove the three guilty of treason. The picture, however, because of its true location and date in relation to the party's false scenario, shows the men's innocence. The picture provides Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, with "concrete, unmistakable evidence of falsification" of the past (64). Winston finally realizes, eleven years after the fact, that he held in his hands a document that could "blow the party to atoms" (67). For thirteen seconds before sending the picture into the memory chute, Winston Smith had in his hands the fate of Oceania. Winston latently wants that power again, and the novel is propelled by that desire.
Winston's entries in the diary that he bought from Mr. Charrington provide the first signs of his desire to regain that power. However, writing what he can remember as the …show more content…
Winston tells Julia that the paperweight is "a message from one hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it" (121). It is a message because Winston wants it to be a message. From the very beginning, he wonders if one purpose of writing in his diary might be to appeal to the future (26). He is miserable, and he hopes for a better future where, as in the past, "[...] truth exists and what is done cannot be undone" (27). Also, just before they realize that they have been caught together in Mr. Charrington's room (conveniently after Hate Week, when their services to the party were essential), Winston believed that one could share in the idealized future he had for the Proles "[...] if one passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four"