CHARACRTERS IN 1984
- Created by: Oliviafurniss17
- Created on: 29-04-21 14:42
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WINSTON
- small, frail figure compulsory blue party uniform
- 39 fair hair red face
- varicose ulcer right ankle
- alters records-
- comes to value proles
- more intellectual than others
- SMITH SURNAME=establishes him as an everyday figure
- WINSTON=INTENDED REFRENCE=CHURCHILL-KNOWN FOR REISTNACE TO EVIL
- OR IRONIC AS ULTIAMELTY FAILS TO RESIST
- perosnality develops when parts of past emerge
- BUT END REPLACED BY SUPERFICILA CONFROMIST PEROSNALITY
- RIGHT FROM BEGINNING FORESEES FATEFUL OUTCOME
- JULAI=REBELS ONLY FOR PLEAURE
- VS WINSTON PENSIVE AND CURIOUS-WANTS TO UNDERTAND PARTYS MOTIVES
- IS HE A RELIABLE NARRATOR?
- third perosn free indircet dis=get an internal and externla experince of liing in regime
- 'he' as oppose to 'i'=narrative simultanosuly describes thoughts and feelings whilsy commenting on them
- SWITCH BETWEEN LIMITED PERSPECTIVE AND GREATER CONETXT
- WE LEARN ABOUT WORKINGS OF MINISTRY OF TRUTH VIA WINSTONS VIEW=NOT TRUYLY RELIABLE
- GLDSTEINS MANIFESTO=CONTAINS POLTICAL ANALYSIS HOW OCEANIA FUCNTIONMS
- =ORWELL USES THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT VIEW=to deepen poltical crique on 1984
O'BRIEN
- we onyl get glimpse of party mebers lives via winstons view
- =alot of partys inner workings remain unexplained as do motives of leaders=this sense of mystery cenralised in chcrcater of obrien
- INITIALLY TRICKS WINSTON MEMEBER OF BROTHERHOOD
- he undevelops as novel progresses
- we know less about him-winston asks if he too been caotured by party-obrine 'they got me long ago'-was he rebllious/cpatured into passive acceotnace?
- does brotherhood exist?-or party invention tool-to trap the diloyal
- chap one 'burly and thick necked'
- haitually readujusts glasses on…
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