The novel 1984 takes place around the life of Winston Smith who is a 39 year old man with varicose ulcer above his right ankle. Winston Smith lives in victory mansion, a very gritty place. In each floor Winston finds himself with posters that says “Big brother is watching you.”Winston lives in a society where people don’t have freedom and citizens are always been watched by the police patrol who snoop in people's window. Not only is the police patrol watching the citizens but there are also telescreen in their room. Winston Smith usually turns his back on the telescreen, so, they can't see everything he does and every sound he makes, its all scrutinized by the telscreen. Winston smith lives in Oceania which is the 3rd most populous city, more specifically in London, chief of Airstrip one (islands of Britain and part of Oceania, once known as Britain).
The government of Oceania is divided into four branches. Winston Smith works in the ministry of truth which is responsible for fine arts, news, entertainment, and education. Near the building of ministry of truth you can find the other government offices. The ministry of peace is concerned with war. The third one is the ministry of love which is responsible for maintain law, order and only the official business can go in because its all surround by guards. The ministry of plenty, is responsible for economic affairs. The official language of Oceania is newspeak and the ministry of truth is minitrue, the ministry of peace is minipax , the ministry of love is miniluv and the last one is miniplenty or ministry of plenty.
Winston Smith went to an ordinary shops ( dealing with free market) even though they are not allowed but the law in this place is not as strict as the others. In the free market you can find shoelaces and razor blades, but he came here to buy a archaic diary. This is not illegal since there are no laws but if they find you doing something illegal they might give you death sentence or forced you to do labor camp for 25 years. After buying the diary and going home, he had to get ready for the two minute hate. In the two minute hate he found himself with with two familiar people who he has never talked to. A girl who works in the fiction department, she has a freckles, thick hair, and is around 27 years old. Winston hated her because in general he hates pretty and young girls, especially if they wore a sash representing junior anti- sex league. In addition, he hated her because those young and pretty ones are " swallowers of slogans and amateur spies" .He also found himself with O'Brien, a member of the inner party. He was a burly man, had thick neck, and was humorous.
During the two minute hate the face of Emmanuel Goldstein appeared, the enemy of the people. The leader of the party who no one knows whether he actually exists is " Big Brother". but Emmanuel Goldstein is a also a leader of the party, his teaching are based on treacheries, acts of sabotage, and heresies. At the end of the two minute hate a girl screamed " swine" ! and everyone responded frenzy even Winston himself was doing so. The two minutes hate is a contagious feeling that gives the desire to kill, torture etc. After this scandalous moment, Winston went back to his room. He opened the diary and wrote in an automatic action " down with big brother" filling half a page. What he just did was a crime, and usually people who went against the party will be arrested at night, removed from the registers, their existence is denied and forgotten.
At the end of the chapter,, as soon as Winston Smith heard knocking on his door, he knew that it might be the police to take him and disappear him since he wrote " DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" which was considered an illegal act.
Party's slogan
"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
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