This document provides information about a paper submitted on George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It includes the presenter's details, main characters from the novel like Winston Smith and Julia, themes of the novel like totalitarianism and psychological manipulation, and references used. The document aims to analyze key elements in Orwell's warning about totalitarian government control.

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

16. Thank you