1984 by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell is a story about a corrupt society, in which Winston Smith is member of one the 4 main parties. It takes place in the nation of Oceania. In this society a citizen is very limited to what he/she can and cannot do. Everything is monitored by telescreens therefore one can’t really avoid or cheat the system without taking extreme caution. Everyone works for the and even questioning the ways of the party was considered a crime with a minimum plenty of 5 years. People that broke the laws were tortured, beaten, and eventually shot. The motive of the party was to implement all documents and history to where they would always seem like the good guys, and put the blame on nations like Eastasia and Euroasia. Winston was a part of this and eventually started to question the ways of the party and decided to take a risk to seek answers.

Throughout the book Winston feels frustrated and annoyed with the rigid control that the party had on the society. He wants to join the brotherhood in order to overthrow the party but this never really happens. While working for the ministry of truth his job was to manipulate the historical documents to make the party look better. Short while into the novel Winston meets a girl name Julia and they start to have an affair even though it was against the party. In his eyes she was a beautiful young girl, and turned out that she was against the party also. As their relationship starts to get more and more serious their desire to rebel against the party also increases.

Finally they both decided to turn to O’Brien for some help, whom they believe blindly also to be against the party, and being the inner member they felt like he already had good connections with the brotherhood. O’Brien agrees to help and gives them the copy of Goldstein’s book who was supposedly still alive and the leader of the brotherhood organization. While reading the book, both Winston and Julia were betrayed by their landlord who turned out to be a member to the Thought Police.

In the end, it turns out that O’Brien was a fake and a loyal member of the party. Winston spends many months, maybe years being tortured and brainwashed by O’Brien and fellow members of the party. He tried his best to resist for the longest time but he was helpless. The motive of the party was to make its members love big brother and in the end they succeed with making Winston do the same. At the end of the novel he had lost all he had for Julia and loved the Big Brother.