The first chapter introduces the reader Winston Smith (central

character and a small member of the party but dislikes Big Brother –
the top figure in the party). Winston is 39 and has a varicose ulcer. We
see a description of the street. Posters are placed along the streets. On
those posters enormous face is depicted. It was one of those pictures
which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move.
And there’s huge sign “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
YOU”. In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the
roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again
with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, called Thought Police,
snooping into people’s windows. Inside the flat a fruity voice was
reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the
production of pig-iron. While sitting behind the TV screen, Winston
realises that he’s hungry, but the only food in the house, a piece of
dark-colored bread, must be saved for breakfast the next day. He
drinks a teacup of oily-smelling Victory Gin and takes out a Victory
cigarette. After dinner Winston begins writing in the diary about a film
he had seen the previous evening in which a ship full of refugees was
bombed by a helicopter. He describes a scene in which a middle-aged
Jewish woman ineffectually covers a child with her body in order to
protect him from bullets and notes the audience's delighted reaction
to their deaths. In addition, that morning, at a routine political rally
called the Two Minutes Hate, O’Brien, Inner Party member whose
body language suggests to Winston that he secretly hates the Party,
had entered the Records Department with an attractive dark haired
girl from the Fiction Department. During the Two Minutes Hate, the
telescreen broadcasted a story about Emmanuel Goldstein, who was a
backslider and traitor and was condemned to death for all subsequent
crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies,
deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Author describes
Goldstein “It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white
hair and a small goatee beard - a clever face, and yet somehow
inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin
nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched. It
resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheep-like
quality”. People’s reaction to Goldstein is hateful. “They were leaping
up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in
an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the
screen.” Winston felt hatred toward the dark haired girl and imagined
beating, raping, and slitting her throat. He realized that he hated her
because she was young and adorable, and was wearing a scarlet sash
that identified her as a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League. After
Goldstein, Big Brother appeared on the telescreen along with the Party
slogans: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH. Winston’s eyes met O’Brien, and it seemed to Winston
that O'Brien was sending him a silent message of understanding. At
home, Winston writes "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" repeatedly in the
diary. He realizes that whether he writes them down or not, his
thoughts will be discovered and he will be arrested by the Thought
Police and soon annihilated and vaporized. After it, he hears a knock
on the door.