Outline

1984 Outline

I) Introduction:
A) 1984 written by George Orwell, in this novel Orwell creates a brutal society. This society falls under the rule of a party called INGSOC led under the figurehead of a person named Big Brother.
B) Thesis: George Orwell uses Winston’s internal conflict between obeying Big Brother and individual decisions to convey how people desire to control their own lives clashes with the societies norm; this shows that no matter how oppressive government is, there will always be resistance due to human nature.
II) Body Paragraphs
A) Topic Sentence: The internal conflict over Winston’s diary shows his desire to control his own life with his final decision to be an individual.
1) “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death” (Orwell 27).
2) Despite Winston’s affirmation in his own diary, that what he is doing means that he will die; Winston still decides to continue writing. This Shows that he is resisting the norm because he has a desire to control his own life.
B) Topic Sentence: Winston’s thought about the capitalist newspaper article and how he dealt with it.
1) "Even at that time Winston had not imagined that the people who were wiped out in the purges had actually committed the crimes that they were accused of. But this was concrete evidence; [...] He had gone straight on working" (Orwell 67).
2) Winston sits in a seat in the ministry of truth where he sees many articles go through his desk. He then has to either burn them or fix them to the parties will. With the documents he ponders over them, in the end, he destroys them; however, he wishes he did not.
C) Topic Sentence: Winston’s desire to be with Julia conflicts with the societal norm and its restrictions on love.
1) “When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. It was a blazing afternoon. The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon dung” (part two chapter 3)
2) Winston is even willing to break this norm in a place that is not that great. They are sitting in old destroyed church surrounded in pigeon dung; just talking.
III)Conclusion-