Writing Prompt 2 - 9/19/08

In George Orwell's 1984, a totalitarian government is present. There is a character named Winston Smith, who hates the government's pwoer and tries to break free from the "Party". The Party is the government's organization. Winston Smith is an individualist that has his own beliefs and George Orwell used his character and his struggles to enhance the novel.

Winston is an extremely curious person. Smith's curiousity about his past, in which the Party and Big Brother has totally wiped ou. Smith is also a rebel in the novel. He purposely does things that he knows is against the rules of the party. Smith, however, look for others that share his belief that the Party is horrible.

Smith struggles in many ways to free himself from the Party. He does things that he knows is against Party rules and regulations. He does not get caught doing his first acts of rebellion, however, that changes when he gets involved with a lady, also a member of the Party. Winston confides in a character that he believes is on his side. The same character that he believes that he can confide in, gets him caught. While Winston smith is being punished for going against the Party, he remains true to his beliefs. But in the endf, his strugles to break free puts him into a place taht he did not want to be, down with Big Brother.

George Orwell uses power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work in several ways. First he uses power struggle to prove a point. The point is that the Party is stronger and smarter than anyone person and no matter what that person does, he or she will get caught. Another way in which he used power struggle is to demonstrate the fact that there are individualists in a society that try to rebel and get they get so far and think that they have made it, but they did not. They are already caught by the Party. In all, George Orwell enhances 1984 with power struggle so that readers will be sympathetic for Winston Smith and be drawn into the novel.

In all that Winston Smith has been through, George Orwell made it a point to show him that he Party is smarter than what he was thinking it was.