Dystopian novel group paragraph

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One of the ways that Winston specifically resists the government of Ingsoc by using his mind.
The two ways by which Winston uses his mind in order to fight against the power of Ingsoc is through his diary and the article on the capitalists. The first is his diary. Winston first finds the diary in an old shop in a proletarian market. After buying the item, he committed an act that could lead to his death. Yet, as he mused about a past recollection, “His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals - DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page” (Orwell 19). This is where Winston reveals the first inklings of his hatred of the Party and Big Brother. Even though he had to mask his true intentions, he was still starting to resist against the government of Ingsoc. In the diary, even though he could be killed for writing in it, the book allows him to reveal what he really thinks about the government he serves under. After he writes in the diary, he starts to think of the consequences of the action: a visit from the Thought Police. Winston began to become paranoid at the thought of the police arresting him, and yet does not try to redeem himself with any words of condolence. Instead, he writes further in his diary, stating that “theyll shoot me i don't care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother” (Orwell 20). The passage written reaffirms what Winston previously wrote. Winston could have done many things to reconcile what he has done, from smudging the ink so it was illegible, to burning the book, or “to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether” (Orwell 19). Instead, Winston wrote more with animosity towards Big Brother, for he ‘did not care’ whether anyone would find out about the diary or not; the diary reveals Winston’s true thoughts. Another way that Winston used his mind to resist Ingsoc was through the photo and article on Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. Winston first comes across the photo in an article that he needed to change in the Ministry of Truth. When he first saw it, he was so overcome with fear over the photo that he pushed it under the other papers that he was assigned to fix. This led to Winston using his mind, since he was able to deduce that “The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil. […] There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies. 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;” (Orwell 67). The photo was not taken seriously back when Winston first had the photo, he was not completely against Ingsoc yet. But, with the hindsight granted from experience, he would have decided to keep the photo if he was resisting the government during that time. This shows that Winston would like to change events, make it so he could further resist the government. Even while Winston was being tortured, when they showed him the same photo, he cried out “’It exists!’ […] it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it” (Orwell 204). This further proves that Winston resisted the government that was trying to say that the photo did not exist. By proclaiming that the photo did exist, Winston went against what the government was trying to force him to believe.
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