Wilson+1984

=George Orwell-1984=

The book I chose was 1984 by George Orwell (Pen Name: Eric Blair). George was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention to his own times, a man of intense feelings and fierce hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Winston, the main character, is describing a cold bright April day on his way home when the story begins. His home is described as a run down appartment building with smelly hallways and lights and elevators that don't work. Telescreens in this time period of this story had 3 components, a camera, a video screen, and a two way microphone. A telescreen is a TV that streams live video of what you are doing to a building where you are monitored. The Party members can see you, but you can't see them. As Winston decides that Big Brother is corrupting the minds of the many that listen to him, He decides to go to one of the Prole settlements, and buys a journal. As Winston writes in his journal he recalls another account he'd had in the Prole village. Winston, was getting to be a lonely man and there was a woman that looked beautiful, but she was a prostitute. One of the major violations of the Party rules were not to commit adultery and sleeping with a prostitute was as such. So Winston decides to say in his mind //Screw the party and all of it's rules.// He then has his merry way with the woman and finds out that she is not as young as he thought which was about 25-30 years of age, no she was about 70-80 years old. After his writing in the journal Winston meets a girl during a two minutes hate and he is very intreagued. After a short passage of him at work, Julia, the girl he had met, gave him a note that had said I love you. Winston notices that Julia is in his lunch period type thing at work. They talk and they have multiple accounts of adultery, even though she is not a prostitute, she publishes novels and pamphlets in a press section at the Ministry of Truth. At work somebody senses that he is against the party, and that person is given in the book just as O'Brien said he would get it. O'Brien invites Winston and Julia to his house, and tells them both that there is a resistance that has been going on underneath of Big Brother, and that he wants them to be part of the resistance. So they arrange a way to get the manual of sorts from O'Brien. When Winston gets the book he reads it over and then he go's to work. As though he had committed another thought crime, the thought police catch Winston for the crime of conspiring against the party. You would never guess who is in charge of the Thought Policeit was the old man in who's room they did "it" over and over again, O'Brian steps in the room and tortures Winston. As he is being tortured Winston is confession go all of the things that he had done before. As a way of getting any more confessions O'Brien puts a cage with rats in it over Winston's head, because Winston's afraid like deathly afraid he tells him all of the thing he had ever done. As O'Brien and the rest of the Thought Police believe that Winston is telling the truth, he get's freed and he has been "rehabilitated". Just as he had seen other "rehabilitated" people sitting in a cafe' with a chess board in front of him. The book ends by saying that he loved Big Brother.

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