Synopsis

Winston is the main character who lives in a city called Air Strip One. This resides in one of three residing nations Oceana the other two are Eastasia and Eruasia. All three nations are at war with each other. The description that Winston gives of this world is cold, gray, hopeless and dark. The people that he works with at the ministry of truth are inhuman. The people in control are known as party members. The inner party members are like the government and the proles are the third class. He himself is an outer party member which is like the middle class. The party has various inventions that it uses to keep people in like. An example is Emmanuel Goldstein or double-think. Winston finds an empty Journal in a junk shop that he begins to write in. This is illegal since the party would consider it thought crim. Winston delays his punishment by doing it secretly in a part of his house that the telescreen can’t see. At his job Winston rewrites history to suit the party. One day Winston’s gaze meets with O’Brian an inner party member and fell that perhaps he too is against the party. After he gets a not from the girl that he thinks is with the thought police. It says that she loves him and it throws Winston off for a bit. We find out that her name is Julia and the two meet in various place like out in the country, in an old church and mainly in the room above the junk chop. As the story continues Winston rents the room and his feelings for Julia becomes love. This is when Winston gets a book from O’Brian and is initiated along with Julia into the Brotherhood. It is an underground organization that wants to overthrow the party. It works much like terrorist cells where each person only knows so much of the whole puzzle. Winston reads the book with Julia but find that it contains that about the party which he already knows. Julia and Winston are the captured in the room above the shop. There was a hidden telescreen behind a portrait which the party used to monitor them. We don’t know exactly what happens to Julia but the reader can only assume that she was taken to a different part of the ministry of love. This I like a correctional facility for dysfunctional party members. There Winston meets O’Brian again but it turns out he was a party member all along and had been watching Winston for some time. Here Winston is tortured and broke down both mentally and physically. There are three stages to Winston’s treatment and after he has completed the first three he moves on to the third. The last stage is room 101 where he is forced to betray Julia by being confronted with is deepest fear which is rats. After this Winston is let back into society not as himself but as a true party member. When he meets Julia again on the outside he no longer feels anything for her. She also doesn’t feel for him and they continue about their lives now fully accepting the party and Big Brother.