The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

They’ll shoot me I don’t care they’ll shoot me in the back of the neck I don't 
care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck I 
don’t care down with big brother (Orwell, 1961:19). 
He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now 
when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken 
the decisive step. The consequences of every act are included in the act 
itself. He wrote: 
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Orwell, 
1961:28). 
After committing a crime of mind, Winston has an aspiration to join the 
Goldstein underground army and retreat Big Brother. 
Sometimes, too they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, 
but with no notion of how to take the first step. Even if the fabulous 
Brotherhood was a reality, there still remained the difficulty of finding one‘s 
way into it (Orwell, 1961:152). 
Winston's great hope to live free from the bondage of the Party rules, 
Winston has a desire to live his wishes regardless of himself as a Party worker. 
Winston wants to live and marry as he chooses not a Party option. He also wants 
to spend time with his loved ones in a place where there was no telescreen that 
always keeps an eye on his every move. 
He wished that they were a married couple of ten years standing. He wished 
that he was walking through the streets with her just as they were doing 
now, but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and 
ends for the household (Orwell, 1961:139). 

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One day Winston falling in love with one of the Party members named 
Julia. Winston makes a steady relationship with Julia, although he realizes that his 
feelings for Julia were a mistake and the Party will not allow. He and Julia are 
lobbing over the character of Mr. Charrington as their permanent meeting place, 
although the risk of being captured by the Thought police was enormous. 
He wished above all that they had some places where they could be alone 
together without feeling the obligation to make love every time they met. It 
was not actually at that moment, but at some time on the following day, that 
the idea of renting Mr. Charrington‘s room had occurred to him. When he 
suggested it to Julia she had agreed with unexpected readiness (Orwell, 
1961:139-140). 
At one time while he is spending time with Julia, in the attic of Mr. 
Charrington, they are both arrested and ambushed by Thought police. At that point 
Winston is hot, afraid of being beaten and tortured to death. 
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston‘s body. His face 
remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show 
resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away (Orwell, 
1961:36). 
But unlike Winston's fear, Thought policedoes lead Winston to the Ministry 
of Love without hitting him. He is housed in a prison compound consisting of four 
telescreen in each corner. 
He did not know where he was. Presumably he was in the Ministry of Love; 
but there was no way of making certain. He was in a high-ceilinged 
windowless cell walls of glittering white porcelain. Concealed lamps 
flooded it which he supposed had something to do with the air supply. A 
bench, only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan 
with no wooden seat. There were four telescreen, one in each wall (Orwell, 
1961:225). 

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During his time in the Ministry of Love prison, Winston does not know the 
difference between day and night and he does not know clearly how long he had 
been there, which he obviously knows that while he is in prison.He is never fed 
and thus, he also makes sure that he is being more than a day there because his 
stomach now feels sliced hanger. 
There was a dull aching in his belly. It had been there ever since they had 
bundled him into the closed van and driven him away. Him. But he was also 
hungry, with a gnawing, unwholesome kind of hunger. It might be twenty-
four since he had eaten, it might be thirty-six. He still did not know, 
probably never would know, whether it had been morning or evening when 
they arrested. Since he was arrested, he had not been fed (Orwell, 
1961:225). 
As it moves and sounds just a little, the telescreenwould yell at him to keep 
it quiet and stoop in the corner of the room. 
―Smith!‖ yelled the voice from the telescreen. ―6079 Smith, W! Uncover 
your face. No faces covered in the cell‖ (Orwell, 1961:234). 
In the Ministry of Love prison, often Winston is beaten until he has no 
longer able to calculate how often he has tortured. Treated like an animal by some 
guards, trampled until unconscious on the floor. The Party's torture of Winston 
does not stop there, but the evil thoughts Winston makes him tormented until 
Winston accepted his crimes. 
There were times when it went on and on until the cruel, wicked, 
unforgivable thing seemed to him not that the guards continued to beat him 
but that he could not force himself into losing consciousness. There were 
times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even 
before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a 

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blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary 
crimes (Orwell, 1961:240). 
Sometimes he was beaten till he could hardly stand, then flung like a sack of 
potatoes onto the stone floor of a cell, left to recuperate for a few hours, and 
then taken out and beaten again. There were also longer periods of recovery 
(Orwell, 1961:241). 
However, Winston feels that he is on the right side, Big Brother and the