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The main character, Winston Smith, knows that if he got caught for writing in the diary he would be arrested, but does it despite the fact that he is in fear for his life

His whole life has been controlled, overlooked, and analysed.  Especially through the telescreen that notices his every move.

“He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary. For the future, for the past – for an age that might be imaginary. And in front of him lay not death but annihilation. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapor.”

This shows that, even though the fear of death and of being caught is present, people sometimes do what they see as necessary for the bigger picture. One can look at it as bravery.

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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Series 28, George Orwell

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Alan Johnson tells Matthew Parris about the impact George Orwell had on his life.

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a dystopia is "An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible."

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Totalitarianism: Total Control, Pure Power

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Totalitarianism: Total Control, Pure Power

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Main character
Is introduced in the beginning of this book
39, smallish frail figure
The reader is not let directly in on Winston's thoughts but it is rather described in a thrird-person point of view
works at the Ministry of Truth

dynamic charachter
- his love for Julia changes towards the end
- his love for Big Brother

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Side character

bold-looking, about 27, thick dark hair, freckels, moves with swift athletic movements.

The reader is introduced to this character through Winston's eyes, and they come in contact in the corridors of his workplace

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Side character

member of the Inner Party
large, burly man with thick neck and a brutal face
charm of manner, is wearing spectacles, and is introduced to the reader when members of the Inner party aproaches in dark overalls.

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Side character
Enemy of the People
leader of the Brotherhood. Has been a Party leader who fell out of favor with the regime.  The most dangerous and treacherous man in Oceania.

lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and small goatee beard

Is introduced to the reader when the Hate begins and Emmanuel is seen by Winston on the telescreen.

advocates for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of thought and freedom of assembly

symbol for hope and freedom

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The narrator tells a story and show one character's thoughts or feelings in writing.

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The book is set in 1984, but was published in 1949. It is writen for the future and was writen a few years after world war 2.

In the future, woud the democracy live?

Our main character, Winston is influenced by the setting, because his life is affected by how the society is run in the time period he is in. No privacy, strict rules and little freedom.

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His tone towards the situation can be described as depressing, fearful and pestimistic.
He is convinced that he is going to be vaporized.

By writing in the diary he is sort of rebelling and trying to save some thruth to the future generation while risking his own life.

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The description of London in the book makes me feel bad and kind of scared, since London is known to be a nice city, a lively and a lot of people. A city where threre is always something going on. When the bombcrates and silent, dark streets are descibed there appears a strong contrast which bring those types of feelings to the surface. Sadness, for the losing of such a beautiful city.

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The Two Minute Hate
is when Goldstein is shown on the screen. All the people in the room get angry and there are abstract undirected emotions like hate and fear
it wakes the desire to kill, torture and smash faces in with sledgehammers.

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Side character

black-haired, black-mustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm.

Big Brother is introduced to the reader after the first Two Minutes Hate where the situation is felt from Winston's side. Big Brother is a much mentioned charachter in this book and has a lot of mystery and power surrounding him

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side character

the wife of a neighbor on the same floor as Winston.
about 30, but looking much older, and one would get the sense of that there was dust in the creases of her face

Mrs. Parson is introduced to the reader when she knocks on his door while Winston is writing in his diary.

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side character

works in the Research Department
Winston's comrade whose society was peasanter than that of others
a philologist , a specialist in Newspeak
tiny creature, dark hair and large, protuberant eyes.

Syme's character is introduced to the reader when Winston is waiting in line for lunch when he is approached by Syme

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side character

a widower, 63 years old and has a cockney accent.

Owner of a secondhand store wich he had inhabited for thirty years.

The Mr. Charrington is introduced to the reader when Winston visites him in his shop to by a paper weight and Charrington shows him a room upstairs without a telly.

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seen in the book Big Brother could have been inspired and conected with Hitler and Stalin as context for ideology. Their methods of introducing their extreme ideologies were similar and could be seen as a base for the character Big Brother wich George Orwell presented in the book, with similar methods.

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1984 was written only 2-3 years after the end of World War II. The book was inspired by the conflict of immense proportions, the outcome of which was critical to the survival of democracy’. It inspired the author to think of the tenuousness of the people’s rule.
The cold war

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a symbol for control, and a lack of privacy

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The Party uses the image of Big Brother to instill a sense of loyalty and fear in the populace, but he can be seen as a symbol for fear, and total control

Big Brother also symbolizes the vagueness with which the higher ranks of the Party present themselves—it is impossible to know who really rules Oceania, what life is like for the rulers, or why they act as they do. - which can be seen today aswell

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a symbol of change, and control

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The items is a remnant of the past that, because of the Party's control, no longer have any basis in "reality." It symbolises the past and hope.

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a symbol of safety and sanqtuary

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...is the expression of a mood , and it is a warning. The mood it expresses is that of near despair about the future man, and the warning os that unless the course of history changes, men all over the world will lose their most human qualities, will become soulless automatons, and will not even be aware of it. ...

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The book is set in 1984 in Oceania, one of three perpetually warring totalitarian states (the other two are Eurasia and Eastasia). Oceania is governed by the all-controlling Party, which has brainwashed the population into unthinking obedience to its leader, Big Brother

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"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."