English Literature

1. Presented by – Nehalba Gohil
Class – MA
Semester – 2
Enrollment No – 4069206420210009
Email id – nehalbagohil26@gmail.com
Paper No – 107
Batch Year – 2021- 23
Submitted to – Smt S.B Gardi Department of English
M.K Bhavnagar University

2. NINETEEN
EIGHTY FOUR
George Orwells

3. MAIN CHARACTERS
Winston Smith
Julia
Big Brother
Mr Charrington
Syme

4. WINSTON SMITH
A minor member of the ruling party in
near future London
Winston Smith is a thin frail
contemplative intellectual and
fatalistic thirty nine year old
Winston hates the totalitarian control
and enforced repression that are
characteristic of his government he
harbours revolutionary dreams

5. JULIA
Winstons lover a beautiful dark haired
girl working in the fictional Department
at the ministry of truth
Julia enjoy sex and claims to have had
affairs with many party members
Julia is pragmatic and optimistic her
rebellion against he party is small and
personal for her own enjoyment

6. BIG BROTHER
He never appears in the novel and though he
may not actually exist
Big Brother the perceived rular of Oceania is an
extremely important figure
Winston looks he sees posters of big Brother face
bearing the message Big brother is watching you
Big Brother image is stamped on coins and
broadcast on the unavoidable telesreen it haunts
Winston life and fills him with hatred and
fascination

7. MR CHARRINGTON
An old man who runs a secondhand store
in the prole district kindly and
encouraging
Mr Charrington seems to share winstons
interest in the past
He also seems to support Winston rebellion
against the party and his relationship
with Julia
Mr Charrington is not as he seems he is a
member of the thought police

8. SYME
An intelligent outgoing man who works
with Winston at the ministry of truth
Syme specializes in language
As the novel opens he is working on a
new edition of the newspeak dictionary
Winston believes syme is too intelligent
to stay in the party’s favor

9. THEMES
The Dangers of Totalitarianism
Psychological Manipulation
Physical Control
Loyalty
Independence and Identity

10. THE DANGERS OF
TOTALITARIANISM
1984 is a political novel written with the purpose
of warning readers in the west of the Dangers of
Totalitarianism government
Orwell designed 1984 to sound the alarm in
Western nations still unsure about how to
approach the rise of communism
In 1949 the cold war had not yet escalated many
American intellectual supported communism

11. PSYCHOLOGICAL
MANIPULATION
The party barrages it’s subjects with
psychological stimuli designed to over whelm
the mind’s capacity for independent thought
The party undermines family structure by
inducting children into a organisation called
the Junior spies
The party also forces individuals to suppress
their sexual desire

12. PHYSICAL CONTROL
The party also controls the bodies of its
subjects
The party constantly watches for any sign of
disloyalty
A person’s own nervous system become his
greatest enemy
Winston himself comes to the conclusion that
nothing is more powerful than physical

13. LOYALTY
In 1984 the party seeks to ensure that the only
kind of loyalty possible is loyalty to the party
The reader sees example of virtually every kind of
loyalty
The relationship between customer and merchant
is perverted as Winston learns that the man who
has sod him the very tools of his resistance and
independence was a members of thought police

14. INDEPENDENCE AND
IDENTITY
The party’s primary tools for manipulating the
populance is the control of history they also control
independence and Identity
Winston does not know how old he is
He does not know whether he is married or not
He does not know whether his mother is alive or
dead
All party members wears the same clothing smoke
the same brand cigarettes drink the same brand of
gin and so forth

15. REFERENCES
https://www.sparknotes.com>1984
https://www.sparknotes.com
https://www.gradesaver.com>1984

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