Part III Chapter 1

It was inevitable that Winston’s fantasy world was going to come crashing down. He was blinded by lust and love. He stopped listening to his intuitions, which caused him to be extremely careless. In part II, Winston is betrayed by Mr.Charrington and O’Brian.

After being caught red handed by his betrayers, Winston is taken away to a cell. The room is windowless and dark, just like Winston’s spirit about life. The room also has a high ceiling. When Winston wakes up in a hopeless state, he looses all passion for his own existence. The only thing that he didn’t loose was his feelings for Julia. However, Winston is a smart man, and he knows that ‘Big Brother’ will most likely take that away from him.

Also, in this cell of deception was Winston’s neighbor Parson. Parson, who is a regular worker for big brother, was not a rebellious man like Winston. One night in his dream, Parson muttered something against Big Brother. Parson had been caught and told on by his own son. Life wasn’t fair for either man. Sometimes life isn’t fair in the present world that we live in. Laws in both worlds must be followed.

The movie "Departed" is a great example for the situations in the novel. However, no one really dies. O'Brian was a character that was working for the Big brother. He work was in 'Minister of Love' He is the one that will torture him until he changes back to old himself.

“We will meet in a place where there is no darkness.” (pg 185) This quote represents a great foreshadow for what part III will hold. It is a quote from a conversation between Winston and O'Brian and he really ended up meeting with O'Brian in a Minister of Love. Winston has faced the worst of his past life. But not yet the worst of life ahead.

Part II Chapter 7-10

In these chapters Winston tries to answer the philosophical questions, “Why is the world as it is?” He knows what it is, but he doesn’t know why. How will he ever begin to find the answer to this question? The world that he lives in has been altered. It will be extremely difficult since all the documents have been changed. Their history has been re-written. As Winston tires to tackle this question, his own world quickly begins to fall apart.

At the beginning of the chapters, Winston meets a guy name O'Brian, high ranked worker. Winston is invited to go to O'Brian's house to talk because they both seem to be rebels. At O'Brian's house, Winston realized that O’Brian has the ability to shut off the telescreen O'Brian in his room. Much reader will probably be shocked by the fact that he was able to shut off the telescreen. No one in their world was able to do that. This represents that O’Brian has much power. How many times throughout had Winston tried to shut off his TV, he always failed to do so. O’Brian must be a very high ranked official with a powerful position in society.

Winston receives a book from O'Brian. The book was called "The theory and practice of Oligarchical collectivism." At first, Winston was happy that he had something to do during his free time he had. During his time with Julia, Winston read it out loud and Julia would fall a sleep because it was a dreary book. While Winston was reading, he started to figure some answers to his big question. However, in Big Brother's world you weren't allow to think and ask 'why' to yourself or to anyone. You were just supposed to do what you're told and believed. Winston was swimming in dangerous territory.

In our present world there is always a secrete police like one in the book. Every person in this world is suspicious to every ones eye. Surprisingly, Mr. Charrington was a secret thought police that used a trap to capture rebels like Winston and Julia "Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!"(pg 231) Whole time in the secret room, they were always being watched by the 'Big Bother'. In addition, there was neither freedom nor privacy.

Another symbolism that is in the novel was a 'paper weight glass' It was a fantasy place that only Julia and Winston wanted to live in. However, when the thought police roared into Winston's apartment, thought police broke his paper weight. As soon as the paperweight broke, Winston's life in fake world broke as well. Perhaps the chapters to come will be about Winston trying to pick up the pieces of his life.

Part II Chapter 3-6

This chapter shows Winston’s personality change even further. It seems that he is caught up in his love affair with Julia, and that consumes most of his thoughts. He becomes more and more rebellious, eventually renting a secret room for the both of them to enjoy each other’s company. During one part, Winston looks in to a crystal paperweight and wishes that he and Julia could live happily ever after in it. “The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.” (pg 154) This reminds me of when children want to live in the oversized Christmas globes that you can buy at Costco. The fact that Winston has these thoughts proves that he is losing control of what is ‘right’ and is now living in some fantasy world. This cannot be good for him, especially with the thought police lurking around everywhere.

For now Winston the new room seems like it is to be as safe haven where both Julia and Winston are protected from all of Big Brother’s rules. “So long as they were actually in this room they both felt, no harm could come to them. Getting there was difficult and dangerous, but the room itself was sanctuary.” (Pg 158) However, we all know that no such place like this in Oceania exists. Ironically, there is a rat in their room. “A rat. I saw him stick his beastly nose out of the wainscoting. There’s a hole down there. I gave him a good fright, anyway. Rats! Murmured Winston. In this room! They’re all over the place, said Julia.” (Pg 151) A rat usually represents betrayal. In this story a rat could also symbolize Big Brother. Winston is surprised that a rat was in their room, this means that Winston doesn’t think that Big Brother could be in this room. However, Julia reminds him that rats are everywhere, just like Big Brother is everywhere. Winston chooses to overlook the fact that there is rat in the room; he tires to scare it away. He doesn’t let it bother him. The rat in the room could foreshadow that someone is going to tell on Winston.

Part II Chapter 2

In the realm of Oceania the only person to trust is Big Brother. It's obvious that everyone fears each other and that leads people to be very guarded and extremely independent. Winston has thoughts that are opposed to Big Brother's ideas. He feels scared that he will be one day exposed He is extra careful of who he communicates with, and how he acts in society. "I always carry one end of a banner in the procession. I always look cheerful and I never shirk anything. Always yell with the crowd, that's what I say. It's the only way to be safe."(pg 128)

For some reason Winston begins to fully trust Julia. This shows that her is falling in love with her. Only love can change a person's way of life so quickly. Winston shares his feelings with Julia. Infact, he is very honest and blunt about how he first felt about her. "I hated the sight of you. I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone. I imagined that you had something to do with the Thought Police." (pg 127) Winston and Julia continue to build a strong relationship full of passion and trust.

Chapter two remind of a shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet.' Winston and Julia had strong relations between them. However, the laws were that they were not permitted to hang out nor have a love affair.

1984 Part II chaper 1

A secret love affair brings about a change in the tone of the story. Winston is the focus of a woman's attention. At first, he reluctant because he thinks that she is like the rest of the people; brainwashed by Big Brother. Winston feels that she is perhaps an enemy of his. This shows that Winston has difficulty trusting people, and is very careful of who he talks to and trusts. "So far as he could see there were two possibilities. One, much the more likely, was that the girl was an agent of the Thought Police, just as he had feared." (pg113) During their encounter, the woman secretly gives Winston a note. Winston thought that the note was about death or terrorism. However, the note read “I LOVE YOU.” (pg 113) This surprised every reader and as well as the protagonist. After reading the note, Winston starts to change his opinion about the woman. The readers begin to to get excited about a possible love affair between the protagonist and the woman. The fact that there is mystery and fear around the meeting of the two adds further excitement. The anticipation continues to grow as the woman and Winston plan to go out together for a couple of hours. They must be careful because if they get caught for being suspicious, they would be sentenced by ‘Big Brother’. The girl secretly plans to meet in a crowed area so that ‘Big Brother’ won't be suspicious of them. The girl yells out “Go to Paddington Station." (pg 121)

The beginning of the chapter two, many will notice the main theme of the story. Winston and the girl talk bakc and forth couple of times. Eventually they fall in love. The excitement that was brought made the readers stunned or rather surprised by note passing.

Part 1

Part one of 1984 leaves the readers feeling afraid for the characters in the story. The totalitarian society seems to not have any respect for its citizens. In fact, the citizens are brainwashed by constant propaganda that is present everywhere. In every one's home there is a television like screen that continually 'educates' citizens about big brother's society. "The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."(pg 4) In addition, there are posters that read 'BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.' People are even afraid of their children because kids were taught to report any negativity towards the government. Oceania is a country that is controlled by an omnipotent leader. The citizens are just puppets that are controlled by the government.

At first it seems that the life of the citizens living in Oceania is the opposite of the society we live in now. Their slogan is "Ignorance is strength," while ours is "knowledge is power." Oceania has two minutes if hate, while we have one minute of peace for Remembrance Day. At first it seems that we are different from them, however, after careful thought there are some similarities between the world and Oceania. In the novel there is a Big Brother that is watching everyone, and knows about everyone's whereabouts. Nowadays there are security cameras everywhere. At the stores, airports, malls, gyms, schools, golf courses, apartment buildings and traffic lights. Furthermore, there are tracking security devises. New cars have traceable chips, all debit cars, airplanes and cell phone is another way to track people. Even though Oceania is different from our society, there are still some scary things that we have in common.