join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his lover Julia, he puts his life on the line in a deadly match against the powers of the Party. George Orwell creates an anti-utopian society in the novel 1984 . The society involves monitors called telescreens watching you every step you take, love is forbidden, conformity, and your assigned to work at one of four ministries. In this society you cant enjoy life or have any fun. After reading the novel you hope that the future wont be dreadful. When 1984 was new, and 1984 far in the future, the novel struck its most responsive readers as an unprecedented torment, an extreme and intolerable vision that stood out (Miller 19). The book makes the reader put their head up and question if this is how our time will end. Orwell creates a book where being different is illegal. In 1984 Orwell is trying to present the kind of world in which individuality has become obsolete and personality is a crime (Howe 322). Imagine living in a society where if you expressed your own opinions or ideas you would be sent to a Ministry of Love where you would be tormented and corrupted. Living in Oceania doesnt seem like an ideal lifestyle. In 1984 you see the Party kill Winston Smiths individuality. Winston Smith, the hero of the novel, is shown arming himself with ideas against the Party and defying it by forming a sexual relationship with Julia: but from the first we know that he will not escape the secret police, and after he is caught we see him undergoing a ...
