1984 GENRE: SETTING: ‘YEAR PUBLISHED: AUTHOR: Dystopian Fiction; Oceania 1949 GEORGE ORWELL Science Fiction 1984 follows the life of Winston Smith, whose personal desires Terese See VAC NT Ce RT can COUT Ue etom cM cuca SR EW Renee tec nee Rca Rec teh Aer surveillance, and censorship. Plot Overview Falling Action: Winston reintegrates back into society asa loyal Party member, and he Climax: O'Brien tortures and Julia realize they betrayed ‘Winston with the cage of each other under torture, rats and Winston chooses Big Brother over Julia. Rising Action: Winston and Julia begin their affair; O'Brien falsely claims he’s a member of the rebellious Brotherhood; Winston and Julia are arrested by the Party, PT ie s 7 Major Conflict: Winston and Julia struggle against the dehumanizing policies of the Party, and must choose between individuality and conformity. Main Characters Big Brother: The perceived ruler of Oceania. = O'Brien: A mysterious and o powerful member of the © Inner Party whom Winston ; believes js also member Winston: The protagonist who hates the Party and wants to © ite Erato test the limits of its power. Mr. Charrington: An old man Julia: Winston's lover and the only who runs a secondhand store other person who Winston can be in the prole district and isa member of the Thought Police. sure hates the Party and wishes to rebel against it as he does. Themes Symbols IR pen (Re , Mind Control <\'s Big Brother (oan e The Glass Paperweight Manipulation of History . > By ly e “a The Place Where There Is No Darkness The Telescreens /hen memory faile' ified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to jm tol ol2 did not exist, and never again h it could be tes Key Question and Answer O'Brien pretends to be part of the Brotherhood because he knows Why does that deceiving Winston and Julia means O'Brien that the eventual process of controlling their pretend to be minds will be all the more powerful. O'Brien partiofthe could have had them arrested when they came to his house and pledged allegiance to the Brotherhood? Brotherhood and to taking down Big Brother, but he understood that allowing them to believe that there is hope for destroying the Party only to yank it away allows him to crush their spirits more easily. What Does the Ending Mean? The final chapter follows Winston for an afternoon sometime following his release from the Ministry of Love. The reader learns that Winston now leads a life of easy, meaningless work, and that when he spoke to Julia again, she admitted that she had also turned on Winston, and the two now feel nothing for each other. In the final moment of the novel, Winston encounters an image of Big Brother and experiences a sense of victory because he now loves Big Brother, Winston's total acceptance of Party rule marks the completion of the trajectory he has been on since the opening of the novel. *sparknotes Sane