As the majority of the citizens believe and obey the Party's commands and adulate Big Brother, Winston risks his existence and beliefs as he lives a double life working at the Ministry of Truth and secretly harboring mutinous thoughts towards the Party. He lives his life knowing that "if [he] wants to keep a secret, [he] must also hide it from [himself]" to avoid the Thought Police vaporizing him (Orwell 250). ... While working at the Ministry of Truth, Winston unconsciously loses his safety when he begins to believe O'Brien shares the same "secretly held belief[s]" as him (Orwell 9)...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before Julia reveals herself to Winston (via letter), Winston believes she is a spy working for the Thought police, an agency that captures those who have committed thought crime (an illegal type of thought). ... Once Winston and Julia being to have intercourse in secret, he begins to depend on the sexual relief she provides for him: "The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all around him. ...

• Word Count: 1110
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate