• Oceana
• “The Party” is in control, Central figure is Big Brother
• Everywhere around the society there is Big Brother’s face and a reminder that he’s watching
• The Party controls everything and everyone, free thinking is a crime, speaking without using “newspeak” is a crime because they’re afraid of rebellion
• Thoughtcrimes – Thought Police
• Winston Smith
• Winston buys a diary and writes his illegal thoughts in it so he has somewhere to put them, doesn’t like the control of the party, but thinking so is a crime
• Wants to contact O’Brien who is high up in the party but who he believes is secretly against it
• “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
• Winston works at the Ministry of Truth notices attractive women (which is a bad thing to do)
• The women later gives him a note that expresses her feelings to him, she’s named Julia
• They have a relationship, which is against party rules
• O’Brien sends for Winston t meet him, he tells him and Julia that he is in fact against the party.
• Police barge in and arrest them all, they’re taken to the ministry of Love (that he always had wondered about)
• Here he learns O’Brien is not what he said, but did that to incriminate him
• Winston is tortured and brainwashed until he loves Big Brother and feels nothing for Julia.
• “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
1. Setting, symbols, tone are important elements
2. When and why it was written-shortly after WWII when totalitarianism is a real fear in people’s minds, Orwell writes what will happen without change in the world
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