Examples Of Unorthodox In 1984 By George Orwell

A world of suppressed beliefs sparks the most defiant and innovative ideas. In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, the dystopian super state Oceania attempts to stifle any unorthodox ideas of their citizens with the use of spies, cameras, and most notably a new language called Newspeak. With Newspeak, the government plans to create a language in which the speaker will not have a way to express any thoughts or ideas deemed unorthodox. There are some characters in the book that realize what the government is trying to do, which the reader comes to find out that knowing too much becomes a considerable mistake. All power lies in the government, so no one dares to question anything, even when a comrade disappears. In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith, Julia, and O’Brien are all considered unorthodox characters, but each character expresses their unorthodox qualities in different ways.

Winston Smith realizes the flaws in society and hopes for change, but he knows these unorthodox ideas could lead to his demise. Throughout the book, Winston has an inner struggle with what to believe and what not to believe in Oceania. Smith questions his own thought processes and the morals of the party:

Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly

Julia seems to want to defy the Party in a different way than Winston; she only wants to thwart pieces of the doctrine that relate to her. Winston even said that she, “knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog” (Orwell 131). Julia sees the Party as a permanent being, but a being that can be worked around. She knows that she can hate the Party all she wants, but the ultimate revenge is hiding her unorthodoxy. Julia seeks these loopholes through sexual acts. She