Journal #20: Topic B

Winston Smith is a weak and feeble middle-aged man who feels alone in his totalitarian world. Winston has a job in one of the several ministries and he does a mindless and menial task day after day. Winston lives in fear when he interacts with his comrades because at any moment he could be betrayed because of an out-of-the-ordinary facial expression or spoken phrase. Winston feels that he is alone in thinking that there is something horribly wrong with his society. He questions the way things are run within his society and the power that they display. He can remember when things seemed to be different and constantly comments on how things should be different. Winston is made to do exercises when he clearly has an illness and everyone is made to go to community centers to interact with other comrades. Buying certain things is against the law and sex cannot be done in a pleasureful way, only to create more people for "the good of the Party". Winston resists this by buying meaningless things that the Party wouldn't necessarily approve of. He has sex not to create babies but for fun and skips out on the gatherings. He is very successful for a time until the Thought Police arrest him, torture him, and brain wash him. This is a very bad consequence.