Blog # 7 Plot 1984

[Ruth]

In the first chapters of the book 1984, you’re brought into a world that once was England and now it’s the state of Oceania. The first character that we meet is Winston Smith a man that is a minor official in the party, who works changing the true facts of the past to match the government version of past events. He is watched night and day all the time by the government. He is under the party’s oppressive political control; he is just a subject not a human being.
In Oceania there is no freedom, no privacy, no freedom to say what you wish to say, there is only obedience and control and of course fear. Propaganda is played in loud speak all day every day, there large screens telling people what to think, what to say, when to wake up, how to exercise, when to eat, when to sleep. The party is broken down into five ministries first there is the ministry of truth, where Winston works, then there is the ministry of peace, which wages war, the ministry of plenty, where the government plan economic shortages and the ministry of love, the center of the party’s secret activities.
Winston finds a place where to the government would not see him in he’s own apartment and gets this hidden journal and starts to write, he feels guilty for writing because in Oceania that is a great crime. Then without thinking he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”. Even thought he is a lawful citizen he is sick of the lifestyle that he’s under. He’s quite and obedient but yet Winston for once is rebelling against the government by this simple act of writing.