In the book 1984, one of the main themes is how isolation can affect a person and a person's ideas and well-being. Winston is a lonely, isolated individual in the story.
Tell me why. Be precise and be specific. (If you have slept in class this will be difficult, but that's what you get for disrespectfully sleeping in class. So mehhh!!)
Next, talk about a time you have ever felt lonely or isolated in the way Winston does. Examples of this could include being around a bunch of people who believed something you didn't or who engaged in activities that you thought were a bad idea, or just about anything that set you apart from other people and made you think you were the only one in the world who felt the way you did.
(400 words/50 pts)
The reason why Winston is a lonely isolated individual is because he really cant do much. In the world he lives in it is ruled by BIG BROTHER. BIG BROTHER being the dictator of oceania basically rules your life and tells you what to do and when to do it. Winston is traped in this jail like world were he is forced to follow the rules. Everywhere Winston goes he is being watched. Even in his own home the big telescreens watch him and know what he is doing at all times. Winston cant even have a relation ship with someone he may like or even think of anything in that way, If he does he would be considered a thought criminal. Winston ends up getting so lonely that he purchases a diary. He is not allowed to have a diary because It is considered a crime but he gets so lonely that he doesn't know what else to do. There has been a few times were I have felt very isolated or lonely in a sense. This one time more then any other. I was hanging out with my old best friend who lived in Buena. He was kind of a smoker and I didn't smoke at all but I was perfectly fine with him smoking or whatever. So we end up staying at one of his other friends house who was a big smoker.. so everyone around me was smoking and I didn't have a problem with it until they try to force me to smoke.. Like I said I have nothing against it but but being forced to try to do it bothered me. And then when his dad came home he talked down upon me and said I was “TO COOL” to smoke and he made me feel really awkward so I just sat there and didn't do much. So kinda of like Winston I was being Forced to do something I did not want to do,, But luckily big brother isn't watching me and we live in a world where we can kind of do what we choose for the most part :)
ReplyDeleteWinston is a loner because he knows there are people out there that are watching him 24/7 and he doesn’t want anyone to know his thoughts and what he writes in his journal. That is a good thing for him to be isolated in this kind of world because if you say one wrong word you could never come back and that just sucks. I feel isolated some times when people are around because I’m scared of what they will think of me and that’s why I really don’t talk. I know that people judge others by what they say and how they say it. I mostly keep to myself and defiantly don’t talk about my feeling around people that I see here and there. I can only talk about my feelings when I’m around someone that I have known for a very long time or someone I can truly trust. But if not I feel really isolated most of the time, I watch what I say and how respond to things. Some days I feel like Winston and other days I feel like a kid trying to talk to someone and trying to make conversation. That’s just who I am.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why Winston is could be lonely is because he really doesn’t have anybody on his side. He is watched over by Big brother every minute of the day which means that the enemy is everywhere. In the book Winston is writing in a journal. Winston writing in a journal tells you that he is lonely because Writing in a journal or even having a journal is a crime. In Oceania You can’t date girls and you can’t have fun that could also explain why Winston could be lonely. You basically can’t love anyone but Big Brother or put Big brother second. Love is a crime. Love and sex without purpose, for pure enjoyment, is the ultimate crime. In Oceania you don’t have many options which could leave to boredom and loneliness. Winston feels isolated because he really doesn’t like the idea of being controlled and watched 24/7. Winston having a journal and writing in one shows his dislike of the society and their ideas. A Time in life I have felt isolated is when I’m at home. When I’m at home I don’t like the thoughts of what my parents think and I disagree sometimes on what they believe. I think that sometimes there words they are too sure of. They think they are right and they can never be wrong. Being in a room with them makes me not fit in because I don’t believe in what they say. You could become lonely like how I did by feeling like nobody is on your side. You feel that everyone is against you. You feel like sometimes you have to just lock yourself up just to feel alone and do what you want. Winston was basically in jail like me locking myself in my room.
ReplyDeletePoints in my life being around my family or with them still made me feel alone. When you are in group that followed a different belief will also make you feel that you alone you will think that nobody will ever think or how you see it. Being in a group of friends who all have different thoughts is hard. Either one feels left out or another feels like they don’t have a friend.
Being lonely and isolated is not always a bad thing. anyways, winston is isolated because he stands out from everyone else. Big Bro is watching every move he makes and feels as if he's the only one who realizes a tyrant is ruling them. Winston understands that the government controls everyone's lives, but feels as if big brother doesn't control him. Walls, posters, the television, etc. is watching him, but he's the only one who even thinks of doing something about it. When Oakcrest kids fool around and play grabass with eachother, i feel out of place like I don't fit in. A lot of people believe in things I don't, and bite my tongue when i'm about to say something bad. I don't care if I don't fit in with certain people, because there are other people like me that I get along with. My interests and beliefs might offend some, but are agreed upon by others.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing this on my 4 year old nephews iPod touch. Yeah he's got a nicer iPod than me lol but I think Winston was just the way he is now because he lives alone and can have a girlfriend.. Oceania is a mysterious world I tell you what. I feel bad for Winston because he wonders if anyone else know what he knows. The government is screwing his thought Process. He's gonna go crazy. It's like when a really bad rumor gets out and you don't want anyone to know than comes to find of that half of your friends know before you can even tell someone the truth. I feel him.. I really do
ReplyDeleteI think Winston is isolated because like many people, he dares to be different. He thinks. Though he doesn't voice his opinions, because he can't, he is stuck inside his mind digging deeper into complexity. Everyone in Oceania is basic, and Winston is someone who won't settle for "Because BB said so". Also, Winston does not have a lady friend to have un-enjoyable sex with. He is crazy for that girl from the two-minutes hate, but he can't have her, which leaves him even more alone.
ReplyDeleteAhh, now isolation and Becca. Yes, I have felt isolated, in fact, I feel isolated every day. Where you might ask? In a few classes, such as: Spanish 2 (because it's all sophomores), Psychology (because I don't know anyone personally) and ENGLISH. Yes. English. Sometimes, I feel out of things in class, I feel that I think much differently than everyone else, and I react differently to everything. Sometimes I think it's because everyone else in the class has the mindset to have fun, and I have the mindset to be serious. It's not a bad thing, I'm actually jealous, because I sit and watch life pass by boringly, and everyone else is making memories. I know I need to loosen up, and stop being so tense and serious, but it's hard because that's just who I am. I also feel kind of lonesome because I'm just meeting some of these people this year, while others have known each other for a few years. It's just kinda stressful feeling isolated. Oh the woes of being a Winston.
Winston is isolated because he is in a world that spies on him. Even the little kids that surrounds him are spies. So basically he has no way to do private things if he wanted to. Not even in his home. His home is filled with telescreens. The Government is in the telescreens spying on him. Its illegal to purchase a diary and to write in it. Obviously Winston is so lonely that he has a diary to write how he feels about Big Brother and how he basically rules oceania. I felt left out this year at votec when i was the only black kid in my class. Everyone was white and it felt weird as hell. Now since my dude Justin came we've been the only black people in the class. Even before Justin came i was cool wit the white kids but i just felt isolated because i stood out more then anybody
ReplyDeleteIn the story Winston feels isolated because the people around him are to scared to take a risk and think for themselves knowing that to think for themselve's is a thought crime, in other words "death". therfore winston feels isolated because everyone who sees you doing other wise will snitch and get you killed.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand i have felt isolated before, more like everyday. Iwork and go to school with so many people, but still i feel lonley> Only because i have so much on my mind that every time i try to open up to someone either they always end up proving me wrong or hurting me. Thats why i end up keeping everything to myself because i feel as though no one understands me. So why bother. i rather feeel lonsome then stress about people who dnt understand me.
Winston feels isolated and lonely because he is the only one with real thoughts and a memory. No matter how many people are around him or with him he is the only one that thinks of something other than what Big Brother says. He's isolated from everyone else and feels alone because nobody can help him because thoughtcrime is death.
ReplyDeleteI have felt lonely before even when i was surrounded by other people. Actually in many occassions have i felt like that because sometimes i feel a certain way and i feel like nobody else can feel the same way. That no one can tell me that they went through it or have felt that way before because i feel like alone. I always felt as if it was me against the rest. I never felt like i could depend on someone to share with or listen to me because i always felt like i was alone. I'd rather be alone because i know that i can trust myself.
Winston is lonely and alone because he has thoughts in his mind that nobody can know. He has someone watching at all times. He feels as though he is all alone because he cant go out and tell people what he sees or what he has in his mind. He also doesnt want anyone to know about his journal. Its like Winston is in jail or just trapped in that kind of world. He feels as though he is the only person that is like the the way he is so he is alone. Now for me im always feeling lonely. I feel as though nobody understands me. When im doing wrong everybody is quick to judge. So i feel like i stand alone but i dont have a problem with that. Sometimes i feel a certain way and nobody else can feel the same way. I always felt its me against the world.I felt i could never depend or trust anybody enough to feel right. I guess thats why i always feel like im alone but imma make the best out of it.
ReplyDeleteWinston was lonely because it was against the law to have anything but a wife thanks to big brother’s control over the people because he is the “dictator” he controls what u do. The first time I felt lonely was the day I was separated from my family and was put into DYFYS and they took me away from my family for some reason but reason why I chosen this to talk about because it something that always in the back of my mind being told that you are leaving your father to be put into a system along with your brother and two sisters
ReplyDeleteDYFYS had took me away from people do know and was comfortable around and put with people I would not know even if we lived right next door to each other it was like entering into a new city with all new being the new guy in town and the new guy in school it felt like almost every couple of months I would move to a different city always being the new every couple of months when I was younger I engaged in some things that were bad for me but over the years and the influence I put it my past kept it in my past and learned what being around bad company can bring even you are not partaking in their “fun” meaning destruction of property luckily we all didn’t get into serious trouble but the bad thing was or funny depending on how you look at it Im pretty sure I was my dad friend that call the cops telling them kids were throwing rocks at a house after that when I got moved again I got a lots of friends at that destination but I didn’t get that close to them because of what happen when I was very young because of what happen. Also what made it worst was the fact that I had no family to contact when I got to a new foster home I was just there like a homeless that a family let live with them because they can get a check to take of me and the only family that might have felt this way was my sister Tammy because the two were not living with the same foster parents like my oldest brother and oldest sister so I guess didn’t feel like I was the only one in the world who felt this way.
By: Chelsea Tuthill
ReplyDeleteWinston is isolated because of how Big Brother controls Oceania.He's watched costantly by the telescreen and it a crime to have friends only comrades. Plus i think Winston's thoughts and memories keep him seperated from the rest because he fears being of being turned in to the thought police.
I have felt isolated and alone, once back in 9th grade me and a group of friends from where i lived were in my yard and everyone of them had been smoken it made mr feel kind of like the out cast of the group even thought i knew smoking is bad.
The reason why I believe Winstin feels so isolated is because he cant really do much in Oceania. He cant do anything with out Big Brother watching over him. Thats one of the reasons why I believe he writes in his journal. to get his mind off of things going on around him. That would be the same thing I would do if I were Winstin and I lived in Oceania.
ReplyDeleteEveryone at some point in time has felt isolated. I know I do all the time. When ever I get into an argument with my parents or I'm not having such a good day is when I would feel lonely. When I feel lonely, the first thing I would do is go to my room. I would stay in there until my mood gets better. When I'm in school and I feel lonely, I wont really talk to anyone. Most likely I would fall asleep in which ever class I'm in.
from what ive read he is so lonely because every body keeps to them selves and the only time he talks to any one around him its only for his help he has no way of expressing what he wants because he will die for it every body is controlled to do their own thing he has no girl friend no family he is alone. i was at a party with a friend and i kinda dont like goin to places where i dont know the people but we were hangin drinkin havein a good time then this girl asked me and my boy to come into a room we went in there and there were a couple other people and she pulled out a bad and broke out some lines and i was like look i dont get down with this but my boy bailed on me and did it so i left and walked towards the bus stop to go home and m boy called me and asked me why i left and i said bro you wouldnt understand. they did dope that night and they all called me a lame for not doing it.
ReplyDeleteWinston feels isolated because he lives in a weird ass town where they spy on his every move. He is obviously one of the normal ones because he's breaking there weird ass rules and that's the reason he feels so isolated because everyone else was tought to think a certain way and he doesn't because he isn't like the others. Like how he can't have a journal but he dies or when he has to look happy whn he is working out that's not even possible becauseif it was enjoyable everyone would jump to exercise. Also children which are suppose to be the most innocent people in our society are little spies. If you can't trust anyone how can you not feel isolated. There's many times people feel isolated in there lives I guess that one time I felt isolated would have to be when I crashed my jeep and it was in the shop, because I would go out like everyday and chill with my friends and go to work and all that good stuff but after I screwed up my car I was home ALOT and I couldn't stand it I couldn't wait for my jeep t get out of the shop. I felt like I was alone alone and everyone was out having fun and I was stuck at my gay house. I also felt this way because when I had work I would have to beg people for a ride and pay them a boat load of money just to get to work. I know it was my fault because I was fooling around in my jeep but I really didn't like feeling like a had no way out and that I was so stuck and isolated from the outside. My jeep is back now and I'm so happy I don't know what I would do if this happened again, but now that this all happened it tought me a lesson that my jeep isn't a toy and I treat my truck right now. Now I drive like a little girl and never go off road anymore. So in a way I'm kind of glad that it happened.
ReplyDeleteWinston is lonely because he doesn't think anybody else thinks the way he does as far as rebelling goes.
ReplyDeleteI dont think I've been as lonely as Winston because he is in a world with a limited vocabulary. I've done some things that I don't believe were the smartest of choices but they've never caused me to feel lonely. I feel more lonely in silence than anything really. As long as I'm hearing someone talk I don't really feel lonelyness.
I believe that the reason Winston is so lonely and an isolated individual is because there's no on out there that he can really trust. anyone around him can be an enemy, and the moment he says something that is wrong, he'll be done with. that is why he writes in his journal. Even though having a journal alone is a crime, it's the only thing he can trust and a journal can't tell your secrets to anyone of coarse. Everything that Winston can't say outloud or to a person, he writes in his journal. His journal keeps him stable instead of going brainwashed like everyone else. There he writes his thoughts, and what he really thinks is going on but not aloud to say; Winston unlike everyone else has a clever mind but can't speak it, only write it in his journal. If there weren't anyone we could talk to or trust, like wiston in the novel, we too would be lonely and an isolated individual.
ReplyDeleteThere was a point in time when I, like Winston, felt lonely. There were times (one specifically) where i was going through something that no matter how namy times people say understand, they teLly didn't. I don't think that anyone can necessarily say they no what someone goes through unless they experienced it themselves. everyone feels different, therefore, everyone has their own different point of view on things. I felt alone because Jo one understood me no matter how hard I tried to het them to understand. A person can spend hours talking to you and by the end you can still feel the same as before. You just want to left alone, and isolate yourself, isolating yourself from everyone will of coarse make you lonely but sometimes you just don't care. You rather Isolate yourself from people that think they no you and try and act like it's easy a d everything will be fine but what do they know? Nothing! that's how I felt, I can only count on myself just like Winston can only count in his journal.
I think that wintson is feeling lonly in the book because he has none to turn to or to express himslef to. But in the book you cant express ur self because it could get u hung and thats another reason. he starts his journal because he can express what he is feeling and get everything he needs to get out with out being killed. In ocieania its isolated because the Big Brother wants to run peoples lives and wants to know exactily what is going on in peoples houses. He wants noting to go on with out him knowing what is being said because he wants to feel inportant and he wants the power of the people......
ReplyDeleteI have only felt lonely one time in my life i went with my dad on the big truck and we were at a truck stop and i went into the bathroom and i came out and he was no were to be found. When i looked out the window i saw him driving away. It was the scariest moment of my life i ran out the door and he was gone thank god i new my house number and hurryed up and called my mom. She called my dad and had him turn around and from that day on i have no gone with my dad on the truck. Not only because i was scarded to death but i felt like i had none there for me....
In the book 1984, Winston has noticed that he has thoughts that separate him from the rest of the citizens of Oceania. He believes that he will be happier if hes allowed to think and do what he pleases instead of being forced to do what Big Brother tells him to think and do. This is a problem because having his own thoughts is considered a crime and the people of Oceania dont know any better than to do what they are told, so this is why Winston feels lonely, he has no support whatsoever. When you cant find someone to share your beliefs with, you become very isolated and feel very lonely like Winston. I cant say ive ever felt completely lonely, if anything ive chose to be lonely. I believe that people who have nothing but themselves are ultimately stronger. Recently, ive chosen to make decisions on my own,sometimes even going against other people's beliefs. It's been working out great for me, so it really depends on how you take it. It has been beneficial for me lately. For example, i recently started a process to move up a position in my current workplace, even though my family keeps telling me not to worry so much about money because they think ill start slacking at school. Im sure i can maitain a good educational level and move up at the same time so i went ahead and started that process anyways.
ReplyDeleteIn the book the main character Winston feels alone or is a loner because he is like the only one that has his memory, and the only one that can remember that the world wasn’t all was like that. he knows it because one he works as a person who erase history and writes his own stuff to replace it, so all the people would think that the world was all ways the way that they said it was . and he also felt that way because he was the only one the had his memory and he kind of remembered who his parents was but he don’t know what happened to them, and he tries to remember a lot more bout them but it’s not all really coming to him at once but it’s coming back little by little. Like one story he was telling in the book was about him in a sub way station and something happened but after that he really can’t remember what else happened and why all the stuff was happening. So it’s pretty hard on him, being that he is the only one that knows what going on. And I know how he felt because one time in my life I felt alone also. I think I was in like the 10 grade and all my closest friends played a sport like some of them played football and some played basketball. I just was the only one that didn’t play anything, at first it didn’t matter to me because I could really care less about stuff like that. But then after a while it started to get boring, and I really hate being bored. So in a way I did feel like Winston did but I kind of felt like that by choice, because it was my choice not play any sports that year in high school.
ReplyDeleteWinston is a lonely individual because he is the only one in his society that he knows of, that has any relocation of a different way of living then they are experiencing now. In the book everyone is ruled with an iron fist by big brother and are trapped in this world where they are not allowed to think for themselves. Winston feels lonely because he feels he is the only one who thinks this Is not the correct way to live and their world wasn’t always ruled like this. He seems to realize more and more that their living situation is not good and no one else seems to have any clue to this in his society, everyone seems to be wiped clean of any memory of things once being different and think that their lifestyle is normal and acceptable. For instance when he was eating his meal in the cafeteria (im assuming that’s what its called) he looks around and sees everyone and noticed that everyone was raggedy with ripped up clothes no shoes and the odor was horrific of sweat and underarms and feet but he realized that no one else seemed to be effected or bothered by this in any shape or form he was the only one in the whole place who found this to be not right. There are some situations where I feel alone in the world because there is a very select few people in the world that are trust worthy and who actually are worth spending my time around. Most of the time id just rather be alone and distant from the world because no one really knows or understands how I feel and what I do and the reasons for that. Even when Im hanging out with my friends most of the time I feel alone because it seem like everyone think different than me and act differently in every way I guess it’s a good thing because id rather be different then be the same. It seems weird but I like being alone more than with people because it makes me feel better I guess because I learned now and dealt with being alone so that I can be independent in the future because I never really relied on anyone for anything and I think that is a good thing
ReplyDeleteSo Winston the main character is isolated because of his thoughts. Well at least through his thoughts he is isolated since it is illegal to have the thoughts that he does. He has dreams about himself being a child and his mother and sisters being taken for his life. Now just that their is enough for me to hate someone but on top of that he has to follow these ridiculous edicts that would only make sense to a robot.
ReplyDeletePretty much he is the robot who still has emotions and to him he sees the others as kill bots searching for his thought so they may execute him. It seems to Winston that he is the only human being left on earth. The people of oceania are a sort of psychopathic region of inhabitants that live to maim and torture the opposing nation. Also their children are little demons and that gives Winston a really good reason not to have them since he hates the party. Probably the main reason he doesn't have kid is because of the fact they are controlled by the party.
Another reason is that he has no wife and im sure that somehow that counts. It is human nature to seek a lover and for this society to frown upon love has got to cause a psychological stress point. Somewhere along the lines Winston had a wife but he doesn’t now and that has got to be even more painful. Pretty much his soul purpose was to procreate and all of his efforts failed with his wife. So now to add insult to injury he cant have children even if he wanted them or at least the right way.
A time when i felt most lonely was probably when i was a little kid. Trying to escape my own thoughts of sadness and despair. I wouldn't really talk much to other kids because i never thought they knew how i felt. Through grade school i had maybe one really good friend. Other then my friend CJ I would hangout with my older brother Keith. They seemed to be the only people i was comfortable with because they knew how i was. My family has probably been the only ones I can rely on my entire life. My cousin John seemed to empathize with me most. The reason was we were raised together since my mom had died when I was three and my dad was in and out of hospitals from 4-7 years old. He understood most because he was their through it all. Even more now than then he knows what is like since he lost his father a couple years back. So I guess to say the more I grew up the more I understood that feeling sad isn’t as strange as it would seem to me.
Winston is lonely and isolated because of the society he lives in. They do not allow people to be normal or to have feelings. Winston knows that he cant do a lot of things that would seem natural to us. He can’t show expressions on his face except the same cheerful smirk, and he cant even look at some people in the eyes. Simple things like this could get you killed by the thought police. They are the people who take you away if you are accused of thinking the wrong thing. There’s so many places that you cant go to, and there’s even more that you can go to once, but not again because it would be suspicious. The reason you always had to be on guard, was because they had cameras everywhere that were always watching your every move. In my life ive had many times were ive felt alone and by myself. Im sure everyone has at one point in there life. I for one has gotten to attached to my phone and face book and it really makes you feel lonely when no one talks to you. Sounds lame but its true, or at least it was until I realized how stupid that was. Ive gotten good at making sure that never happens anymore. But theres other things that make me feel alone. Like when i am alone. I don’t ever like to be alone except when my family gets annoying. But when im out or doing something I always like to be around people. I rely on having my friends around me to keep a good mood often. Most people are like me I think, or at least I hope.
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