one and trusting no one. Upon seeing a particular girl, who later becomes his lover, he thinks of her, that she even might be an agent of the Thought Police. That, it was true, was very unlikely. Still, he continued to feel a peculiar uneasiness whenever she was anywhere near him. By the end of the story, Winston has been completely brainwashed and is now a strict conformer of the Party and, He loved Big Brother. Winston was no longer concerned with the unseen injustices of Big Brothers leadership, and to him, everything was alright. The struggle was finished. There are a number of ironies in the story 1984. One example of an irony is who turns out, in the end, to be trustworthy and who is eventually going to betray Winston and lead him to his ultimate fate. Winston does not in anyway trust Julia. When she is first introduced as a girl he often passed in the corridors. He did now know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department, Winston is very suspicious of her and sees her as being more dangerous than most. A little bit into the story, Julia slips Winston a note saying I love you, and their ultimately crushing love affair begins. Another ironic thing in the story is not another situation, but rather the language of Oceania, Newspeak, is ironic in itself. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, and thus the basis of communication throughout the people. But Newspeak is unique in that it is the only language that regularly loses words rather than gains them. The Party has formed this language in order to decrease the amount of brain activity, thus narrowing the range of thought. Sociologist, Dr. Murphy, continually says, We think as we speak, and we speak as we think. This suggests that language, which is also the basis of communication, is directly related to the thought processes in the human mind. So, ironically, Newspeak ultimately brainwashed the citizens rather than, as all other langu...
