Writing Prompt 2 - 9/19/08

In the novel 1984, George Orwell uses the power struggle he creates between the main character and the government to enhance the meaning of the story. Orwell's leading character, Winston Smith, decides that the government is opressive and then he rebels against it in every way he can. The author uses Winston's struggle with the government pver the course of the novel to highlight the main point of the story.

Orwell first uses Winston Smith's job to enhance his meaning. Winston works for the government, constantly re-writing history and making everything the government says the truth. winston sees firsthand evidence that much of what the government says and does is completely a lie. This is very significant to the story because Winston finds at his job that the government is lying to him and opressing him, and this gives him his fist desire to rebel.

After Winston has decided that he does not like what the government is doing, he then meets Julia, a woman he will share an intimate relationship. Julia is significant to enhance the authors' meaning of the work because she, like Winston, opposes the party and their actions. Julia gives Winston the ideas that lead him to seeka larger group that will help him fight the opressive party.

Winston and Julia try to find someone else, a larger group, that can help them resist the opressive power of the government. They find a group called the Brotherhood, led by the famous enemy of the party Emmanuel Goldstein, who they believe can help them fight the party. The ideals of The Brotherhood are significant to enhancing the meaning of the story because they represent help. The Brotherhood is a group of people like Winston who want to fight the Party however they can and the Brotherhood is there to help Winston and Julia.

George Orwell is able to create a great parable between Winston Smith's struggle with the government and the meaning of his work. Orwell uses the struggle of Winston with the Party to enhance greatly what his message in the story is.