George Orwell 1984 Analysis

Dreams: The Exploration of Winston’s Inner Feelings In works of literature, dreams are often used to foreshadow future events or to reveal the major theme of the literature. In the case of George Orwell’s 1984, Orwell uses dreams to reveal Winston Smith’s psychological trauma and inner feelings. Orwell uses Winston’s dreams to uncover his disturbing past and to connect his inner feelings to a theme of connection. Winston has multiple dreams throughout the novel, and they reveal his inner feelings. Orwell reveals this feeling of connection through the dream of his encounter of O’Brien symbolises his hope for freedom, he recalls the death of his mother and sister in a dream which symbolises his guilt, and his desire for freedom through his dream

He then sees a girl with dark hair, who turns out to be Julia, he mentions how overwhelmed in “admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought (28). Winston admires Julia’s rebellious nature she processes and how she directs it towards the government through the way she takes off her clothes. Julia’s rebellious nature gets Winston to believe that this attitude is what will finally overthrow the Party and the people of Oceania will gain their deserved freedom. This dream not only fueled Winston’s desire for freedom, but it foreshadows his impending relationship with Julia. It foreshadows a connection that he will develop with Julia and ultimately his betrayal. George Orwell calculatedly placed Winston’s dreams in 1984 as a method of revealing Winston’s past and foreshadowing his future. Winston’s dreams show his ambitions and his anguishes. Through Winston’s dreams, a better understanding of his hopes, guilt, and desire for freedom is developed. Despite the sufferings he endured during his childhood, he still strives and is motived to seek freedom that he