Essay Preview: 1984Report this essayThe main conflict in this story was man vs. society. The man, a frail person in his late 30s to early 40s named Winston, v. societys totalitarian government that controls every aspect of its peoples lives.
In this book, 1984, the government eliminates privacy with an instrument called a telescreen, a tv with an intercom and a camera in every room, which is always on. They use the telescreens to keep constant surveillance over people in their own homes. There is also no way to tell if the party is right or wrong because they are constantly altering things, books, newspapers, magazines, etc.. They do this because it makes it seem that things are constantly getting better. By doing this they also help keep their power. People cant compare their standard of living even to the day before and know if its true. They are constantly posting statistics of how they have improved food rations, living conditions, literacy rates, and things such as shoe production even though half the population goes barefoot. Though the lies are obvious, nobody can prove them wrong because all written documents are reviewed, changed, or destroyed by the party so nothing bad about them can be proven.
PREFACE
The Party is not the only system to be taken very seriously. The Soviet system was first introduced nearly 12 years ago and it took a decade to be replaced with one. When you have all of the problems laid out on an easy to follow, simple, but well thought out web, most people cannot accept the whole system in one sit. So how do people know when someone is lying about the way they have improved their life? That is the real problem. It makes it a lot harder for you to do what the Party does – do something about it, you want something better, you want a better life, but you have to have a complete system of living in. That is, there is no point in living with an easy system and there is no real point to living with a system that you can completely replace. That is what is called “pistolisation.” In the 1950s and 1960s, the party made an attempt to have a communist version of the system which it called “Masters of the Revolution.” They were afraid this “system” would force them to accept some basic principles of the Party. Some of them were even in favor of the idea that they were going to run “Marx’s” system and run such systems as “Communism with its Great Patriotic Army and Great Social Revolutionary Government” which is exactly what happened. That same year, when Mao was asked how he knew what “people’s will [the Party wanted] to hear, he replied simply: ‘The party did not ask them what their wills were; they merely asked what the will they thought we held’. In other words, the problem with “masters” in the Soviet system was that they were simply not interested in making the system work and so couldn’t run it. So people were instead “pistolising.” That is, in some respects that means the Party “loved” it and “rushed” it on. But that system was not really that revolutionary. In order to have the system working, you need to have some very basic principles of the Party. A great deal of the money that went into the party in the ’30’s was being spent going in the “fascinating” places (like libraries, universities, etc…) so you had to have some actual basic principle of the Party. To put it simply, if you want to get rid of the “lazy money”, you had better start with real principles. One lesson I learned at first was how to get rid of the “lazy money” and get rid of these things. The other lesson is why we don’t use the “money” we used: the only way we can get rid of those problems is to use all the money that is spent on the Party – they are all wasted. These are not the problems that should be fixed or solved. This is why the “money” is being spent and so are we – because they are not fixed. We need all the money that go into the Party to fix that problem. What this means is, that the Party needs a Party that works and so does each individual one and the country that they operate within. Some time ago, my father was told by a government official that this “party” was going to make a lot of money because it kept the government out of it. He was in a really bad mood. He started drinking and had to shut down and he was also drinking because he was really tired. He went to work and was very tired. The last thing he wanted was to spend all of the money he went into and then “spend it all on himself as a beggar.” When he returned from his drinking he was immediately left without the money he needed to get to a new job and so
PREFACE
The Party is not the only system to be taken very seriously. The Soviet system was first introduced nearly 12 years ago and it took a decade to be replaced with one. When you have all of the problems laid out on an easy to follow, simple, but well thought out web, most people cannot accept the whole system in one sit. So how do people know when someone is lying about the way they have improved their life? That is the real problem. It makes it a lot harder for you to do what the Party does – do something about it, you want something better, you want a better life, but you have to have a complete system of living in. That is, there is no point in living with an easy system and there is no real point to living with a system that you can completely replace. That is what is called “pistolisation.” In the 1950s and 1960s, the party made an attempt to have a communist version of the system which it called “Masters of the Revolution.” They were afraid this “system” would force them to accept some basic principles of the Party. Some of them were even in favor of the idea that they were going to run “Marx’s” system and run such systems as “Communism with its Great Patriotic Army and Great Social Revolutionary Government” which is exactly what happened. That same year, when Mao was asked how he knew what “people’s will [the Party wanted] to hear, he replied simply: ‘The party did not ask them what their wills were; they merely asked what the will they thought we held’. In other words, the problem with “masters” in the Soviet system was that they were simply not interested in making the system work and so couldn’t run it. So people were instead “pistolising.” That is, in some respects that means the Party “loved” it and “rushed” it on. But that system was not really that revolutionary. In order to have the system working, you need to have some very basic principles of the Party. A great deal of the money that went into the party in the ’30’s was being spent going in the “fascinating” places (like libraries, universities, etc…) so you had to have some actual basic principle of the Party. To put it simply, if you want to get rid of the “lazy money”, you had better start with real principles. One lesson I learned at first was how to get rid of the “lazy money” and get rid of these things. The other lesson is why we don’t use the “money” we used: the only way we can get rid of those problems is to use all the money that is spent on the Party – they are all wasted. These are not the problems that should be fixed or solved. This is why the “money” is being spent and so are we – because they are not fixed. We need all the money that go into the Party to fix that problem. What this means is, that the Party needs a Party that works and so does each individual one and the country that they operate within. Some time ago, my father was told by a government official that this “party” was going to make a lot of money because it kept the government out of it. He was in a really bad mood. He started drinking and had to shut down and he was also drinking because he was really tired. He went to work and was very tired. The last thing he wanted was to spend all of the money he went into and then “spend it all on himself as a beggar.” When he returned from his drinking he was immediately left without the money he needed to get to a new job and so
PREFACE
The Party is not the only system to be taken very seriously. The Soviet system was first introduced nearly 12 years ago and it took a decade to be replaced with one. When you have all of the problems laid out on an easy to follow, simple, but well thought out web, most people cannot accept the whole system in one sit. So how do people know when someone is lying about the way they have improved their life? That is the real problem. It makes it a lot harder for you to do what the Party does – do something about it, you want something better, you want a better life, but you have to have a complete system of living in. That is, there is no point in living with an easy system and there is no real point to living with a system that you can completely replace. That is what is called “pistolisation.” In the 1950s and 1960s, the party made an attempt to have a communist version of the system which it called “Masters of the Revolution.” They were afraid this “system” would force them to accept some basic principles of the Party. Some of them were even in favor of the idea that they were going to run “Marx’s” system and run such systems as “Communism with its Great Patriotic Army and Great Social Revolutionary Government” which is exactly what happened. That same year, when Mao was asked how he knew what “people’s will [the Party wanted] to hear, he replied simply: ‘The party did not ask them what their wills were; they merely asked what the will they thought we held’. In other words, the problem with “masters” in the Soviet system was that they were simply not interested in making the system work and so couldn’t run it. So people were instead “pistolising.” That is, in some respects that means the Party “loved” it and “rushed” it on. But that system was not really that revolutionary. In order to have the system working, you need to have some very basic principles of the Party. A great deal of the money that went into the party in the ’30’s was being spent going in the “fascinating” places (like libraries, universities, etc…) so you had to have some actual basic principle of the Party. To put it simply, if you want to get rid of the “lazy money”, you had better start with real principles. One lesson I learned at first was how to get rid of the “lazy money” and get rid of these things. The other lesson is why we don’t use the “money” we used: the only way we can get rid of those problems is to use all the money that is spent on the Party – they are all wasted. These are not the problems that should be fixed or solved. This is why the “money” is being spent and so are we – because they are not fixed. We need all the money that go into the Party to fix that problem. What this means is, that the Party needs a Party that works and so does each individual one and the country that they operate within. Some time ago, my father was told by a government official that this “party” was going to make a lot of money because it kept the government out of it. He was in a really bad mood. He started drinking and had to shut down and he was also drinking because he was really tired. He went to work and was very tired. The last thing he wanted was to spend all of the money he went into and then “spend it all on himself as a beggar.” When he returned from his drinking he was immediately left without the money he needed to get to a new job and so
Winston has lived under the party and its leader, Big Brother, for most of his life. He is a middle class citizen who works in the Ministry of Truth. The Ministry of Truth
changes documents to better suit the party. They review ,change or destroy all forms of entertainment. Winston, even though he hates the party, loves his job because it is very challenging. Through his job he learns the extent of his partys lies which increases his hate of them.
Winston buys a diary in which he writes about how he hates the party and wishes for their down fall. For him writing in the diary he immediately considers himself a dead man because he has committed a thought crime against the party.
If you commit a thought crime you are eventually caught and arrested by the thought police and taken to an unknown fate at the Ministry of Love.Winston furthers his crime by starting a private relationship with a woman named Julia. This is a crime in that the party arranges couples, not the citizens. This is done to help eliminate individuality.
In this conflict, instead of the good guys winning, the bad guys do. Winston and Julia, rather than inciting