Winston turns around abruptly while changing his facial expression toward the telescreen and enters the tiny kitchen. The exterior of the Ministry of Love is heavily guarded. It is impossible to enter and is surrounded by barbed wire, steel doors and hidden machine guns. The Ministry of Love is the most ominous and fearful, as there are no windows, and Winston has never been inside it or had been near it. In Newspeak, they are called Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty. They are the locations of the 4 Ministries that are part of the government’s apparatus: The Ministry of Truth controls news, education and entertainment the Ministry of Peace conducts itself with war the Ministry of Love maintains law and order and the Ministry of Plenty is responsible for the economy. The city has three other buildings whose structures are similar to the Ministry of Truth. From where he is, Winston can read the official slogan of the Party at the Ministry of Truth, “ War is Peace. He cannot remember if London had always looked like this, from the rotting 19th-century houses to areas destroyed by bombs. His workplace, the Ministry of Truth, is a giant pyramid structure that towers over London. Winston turns his back to the telescreen, knowing he is still safe when being spied on. The Thoughtpolice secretly watches him through the telescreen of every movement or sound he makes. The telescreen is able to pick up any sounds Winston makes. The voice in the telescreen continues talking, including about the Ninth Three-Year Plan. A flapping poster is printed with INGSOC, and a Thoughtpolice helicopter patrols the city and searches through windows. Outside, torn paper and dust blew through the streets and posters were planted everywhere, with one of Big Brother across the street from Victory Mansions and the poster’s eyes gazing at Winston. He goes into his apartment, where a voice speaks from a telescreen in his home. A poster of Big Brother is seen on every landing. He would walk slowly and then stop to rest for a few minutes. Winston struggles climbing stairs due to a varicose ulcer on his right ankle. Inside the heavily scented hallway is a portrait of Big Brother, Oceania's leader, and Winston made his way to the stairs instead of using the elevator at times, it would operate, but now the electricity was turned off during the day as preparations for Hate Week were going underway. He struggles against the wind as he enters the building. Winston returns home to his home, a dilapidated apartment called Victory Mansions, on a cold April day. However, none of this can come to fruition, for the Party government is very powerful and manipulative no matter how much he tries, he is among the opposers who risk being brainwashed or vaporized. He even hopes once he becomes a member of the Brotherhood, he will successfully defeat the Party and be hailed as a hero. He thinks people can still fall in love and have sexual relationships and free thoughts of themselves and those parts of their everyday lives. Winston believes that everyone deserves to live the life he used to have from his early years before the regime. No one else would have the strength and courage to stand up against the regime, and Winston could be the first of his kind to attempt his heroic acts, even if it meant placing his life at risk. Even if he finds himself living in a harsh reality that is imagined by Orwell in the year 1984, he thinks there is still hope and would come up with something to express his feelings and past experiences to the Party through a secret rebellion. He lives in a section in Airstrip One infected by poverty and eats awful and bitter food. He is also a man of the future, except the time he lives in is dehumanized and bleak. This allows readers to identify with him during his actions in the nod could think of themselves being in his place to see the regime for themselves. He is simple as Orwell uses his name to define his ordinariness: his first name Winston is inspired by British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, who was PM during WWII and praised for his bravery and leadership and his last name Smith is the most common surname in the English language. He is ordinary and uses his strength to achieve his goal and circumstances. Winston Smith is a character and a civilian who witnesses the totalitarian regime from his point of view. 2.4 Job at the Ministry of Truth/Meeting Julia.
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