Literary Analysis #1 "1984" by George Orwell

1. Winston Smith a citizen of the totalitarian state of Ingsoc, the people of this socialist country speak new Newspeak the country's new form of English. Big Brother, the dictator of Ingsoc watches over each and every citizen to ensure that they don't break laws with free thought and sex. Winston writes a diary about his hate for the Party. Winston meets Julia a beautiful mechanic that works in his building. They both love each other and start an affair. Although illegal, they both confess their hatred toward Big Brother.  Winston then meets an inner Party member, O'Brien. Winston and O'Brien become friends at one point he invites Winston to his home. Winston believes O'Brien is part of the resistance and wants to help. Winston and Julia accept the invitation and go to O'Brien's home. They confess to O'Brien that they hate the Party.  Winston and Julia are given a book by Emmanuel Goldstein and are recruited into the "Brotherhood". While Winston is at home reading the book the Thought Police break down Winston's door and take him away. Winston and Julia are at the ministry of love and are tortured endlessly for there crimes. At one point O'Brien tortures Winston and straps a rat cage to Winston's face and threatens to let the rats eat his face. Winston begs for mercy and wants O'Brien to do it to Julia instead. At this point Winston is broken and figuratively killed. At the end Orwell finishes with "And He Loved Big Brother."
2. Any person can be broken down into nothingness. Winston a passionate man who wanted to make change had his mind condition and the real Winston was killed. The new Winston loved Big Brother and was forevermore changed. 
3. The author's tone toward the book is one of fear. The idea that a totalitarian government can control every aspect of your life and dehumanize each civilian is immensely frightening. 

1. Direct: Winston wrote down his feelings in a diary, and outright defied Big Brother with thought crimes. At the end of the book Winston was fully brainwashed into loving the Party. Indirect: O'Brien, a man of great intelligence, being able to manipulate Winston and Julia in such a subtle manner to get them turned in was indirect. Winston did not trust julia at first because she was too beautiful and it was almost too good to be true for her to be in his presence, this made Winston hesitant.
2. The diction changes often because there are two real points of view, there are the ones that are some what omniscient where the narrator knows all about the party but then there are parts where the readers zooms into Winston's lens. Learning about how the party specifically took control of people's lives was the omniscient point, and seeing Winston fall in love and him getting tortured was the first person account.
3. The Protagonist was dynamic, he started off with a point of view being his hate for Big Brother. Later on down the road his hate develops more and more until he is taken away by the thought police and is conditioned back to the optimal citizen.
4. I feel like I met a person. There are many people that have gone through similar struggles and Winston's struggles are completely realistic. The concept of "2+2=5" being engraved by force into the mind of each and every person is disheartening but interesting. Winston wasn't just a straightforward character that read and move on. We read him his way of doing things. In essence we get a first person account of what a totalitarian government would really be like.