https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk winston's playlist exposing his deep, dark, and illegal thoughts... en-us 2019-05-06 21:10:37 UTC 2025-12-04 17:44:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/379139051/a8689aa487c1a04ce4634a535710540b/images.jpeg peaches_ila https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357418847 The reason I believe this song is relevant to Winston Smith's character within 1984 is because it is sang from a first person point of view giving details of thoughts happening within the singers mind. The lyric, "I wake, alone, in a woman's room I hardly know. I wake, alone, and pretend that I am finally home," makes me think of Winston being in the cabin without Julia at his side. He is constantly having an internal conflict of if what he's doing is worth the torture that would come if they are caught. He explains himself having dreams of Julia before even knowing her face which leads me to think of the lyric, "I can hardly get myself out of her bed, for fear of never lying in this bed again," symbolising Winston's struggle of wanting to achieve the type of intimacy couples would have had before Big Brother. He also shows to be the submissive partner in his and Julia's relationship which fits the description of, "Maybe I can wait in bed until she comes home, and whispers, 'You're in my web now. I've come to wrap you up tight 'till it's time to bite down.'". To me it very similar to how Julia is just using Winston for her benefit, and turning herself into his ideal woman to trap him into her world. And he lets her. It shows more of a readers perception on the situation between Julia and Winston. This song captures the conflict conversed with the madness.]]> 2019-05-06 23:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357418847 peaches_ila https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357665804 Throughout part three of 1984 Winston is held in custody by the police after being caught at Julia's side in the cabin with goods from the blackmarket. The song anathema by twenty one pilots is what I believe to be a near spot-on representation of Winston's thoughts and emotions while being tortured by The Party. Lyric, "You will never know what's behind my skull. So won't you say goodnight, so I can say goodbye," the word skull in that phrase changes to hair, skin, and veins until the chorus. I believe this is Winston internally pleading to the officers that they will never understand what he's fighting for, because they are too blinded by the greed of power to acknowledge how much pain he and others go through. When Winston's finally had enough he has internal monologues about how putrid everything is. Winston shows internal reluctance, the next sets of lyrics represent those stances. "Won't you go to someone else's dreams? Won't you go to someone else's head? Haven't you taken enough from me? Won't you torture someone else's sleep?," and, "Haven't you taken enough from me?
Won't you torture someone else's sleep? Won't you go to someone else's dreams? Won't you go to someone else's head? Haven't you taken enough from me? Won't you torture someone else's sleep?" Winston wants answers to why he is the person to get caught into this web of rebellious-hatred toward The Party. He knows there are others out there just like him, so why is he the one to be put through all the torture. Where Winston begins to have his mind realtered from what it's already been through is perfectly captured through the ending of this song. It says, "I start to part two halves of my heart in the dark and I... Don't know where I should go, And the tears and the fears begin to multiply. Taking time in a simple place, In my bed where my head rests on a pillowcase, And it's said that a war's lead but I forget, That I let another day go by. I want to be afraid but it seems that these days, I'm caught underwater and I'm falling farther, My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father, Am I screaming to an empty sky? Empty sky, no way, that's me 'cause one half of my heart is free. Empty sky, no way, that's me 'cause the other half of my heart's asleep." Winston is left battered and used, he will never be the same.]]> 2019-05-07 15:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357665804 peaches_ila https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357666863 This Is America by Childish Gambino represents Winston's inner feelings towards The Party and Big Brother. Winston feels as if The Party has people under a game or even a simulation of what they want life to be. This can be related in the lyrics, "We just wanna party. Party just for you. We just want the money. Money just for you," this gives a common effect found when talking about Big Brother, meaning The Party lets the citizens do what they "want", but in reality it is all for their own means of power. Shortly after this phrasing the beat turns from something light and playful into more destructive and harsh. I believe that is a good interpretation of how Winston's emotions in the beginning are very undecided. At some moments he feels like all the conspiracies are just in his head, but there is too much evidence that provides that the way Oceania has been conformed is with its own use. The lyrics, "This is America. Don't catch you slippin' up. Look at how I'm livin' now.
Police be trippin' now. Yeah, this is America," express how Winston knows how corrupt his country is and sort of warns himself not to act out at any random issue, because he knows what will happen to him if he does. And when people do act out of what The Party wants, immediately the police arrive to annihilate the situation. This song explains how Winston knows Oceania is corrupt, but there's not much he can do besides avoid the chaos to ensure he won't be vaporised. ]]> 2019-05-07 15:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/peaches_ila/jnarpjk0bxdk/wish/357666863