![]() ![]() ![]() Through Winston’s perspective, we are allowed to experience his irritation, fury, and exasperation with the other Party members and the proles who live in the slums outside the city center. Luckily for we the readers, Winston Smith is not like the other party members, those he deems as mindless, brainwashed fools, devoted mind and body to the Party, Big Brother (the dictatorial figure/mascot of the regime who may or may not actually exist) and the principles of INGSOC (English Socialism). The totalitarian regime that reigns over Winston’s vile, cold and dirty futurist London, controls everything, right down to the thoughts in its citizen’s heads. ![]() It is how most of them have lived their whole lives and the majority would advocate for its continuous. The residents of London, Airstrip One, Oceania, are used to constant surveillance. I found it disconcertingly easy to imagine, in our modern world, technology is utilized in such an all-encompassing, and eventually normalized fashion. He’s just arrived at his dreary apartment from work where he’s greeted by the blaring noise of his telescreen, a permanent installation in his home that works twofold. As new entrants into the world of 1984, we are immediately introduced to the character of Winston Smith, a small, rough-skinned, sickly member of the Outer Party. ![]()
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