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Post by sgalle on May 17, 2010 11:05:50 GMT -5
Who is the character you like the most? Why? Describe that character and your response to him/her.
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Who is the character you like the least? Why? Describe that character and your response to him/her.
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Post by juanjpinto on Aug 24, 2010 13:17:56 GMT -5
The character I like the most would be Winston Smith, being the only one in this whole dystopia who has not been oppressed to the powers of Big brother. A brave character that had one goal that was not acomplished, finding out if the society before the revolution was better; or did the power of Big Brother made a better quality society. He was the only person that could have his own thoughts, because unfortunately on this dystopia it was prohibited to have free thought, speech or actions. He looked further that everyone else, he had the idea of freedom in each individual. His brave character and way of thinking are vanished at the end of the book, because of the oppression and torture of the society. Winston had been brainwashed as every person, and had become one more on a manipulated dystopia that damaged peoples minds involving torture and slavery. Juan Jose Pinto
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Post by imartinez on Aug 25, 2010 23:15:13 GMT -5
Character: The main character of the book 1984 was my favorite. He is a thirty nine year old man named Winston Smith. He lives in Oceania were the Big Brother was controlling everything. I really liked him because he was against the party and was the only one that tried to rebel against them. I think he was very brave for doing this, even though at the end he didn’t get what he wanted. His goal was to know if the society before the revolution was better, or if the dystopia he was living in created by Big Brother and the war was the best society there has ever been. Winston wasn’t scare to think what he wanted, even though it was forbidden to have thoughts against the party. This character decided to rebel de party by starting a diary in which he writed his rebellious thoughts, even though he knew that he was committing a thought crime. He was concerned that sooner or later the Thought Police was going to kill them. At the end of the novel O’Brien gives Winston and Julia a book that supposedly said the truth about Big Brother. But actually it was a scam because O’Brien was an orthodox government agent. Also Mr. Charrington tricked them because he was a Thought Police. He arrested them when they were in their rented room above the junk-shop. Winston was brainwashed and tortured. Now he loves Big Brother and will be murdered by the Thought Police. The whole book is centered in this character’s rebellion to the party. Isabel Maria Martinez
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Post by apaez on Aug 26, 2010 13:22:17 GMT -5
My favorite character in the novel is O'Brien. I like him because he is a mysterious character who causes intrigue throughout the novel, especially when he appears in the Ministry of Love. He is the kind of character that is unpredictable and causes surprise. O'Brien surprised me when he turned out to be a loyal member of the party instead of a revolutionary who hates Big Brother as he claimed to be. He is also an excellent actor who convinces Winston of his hate towards Big Brother, which later drove Winston to admit everything to him, causing his imprisonment. O'Brien also gave Winston hope and therefore bravery to openly oppose the party which led to his discovery and suffering in the Ministry of Love. I also liked him very much because I tend to like powerful characters. I believe that knowledge provides superior power, which is what O'Brien had for he knew everything. He knew the truth about Big Brother and the party, but he also knew about Emmanuel Goldenstein and Winston's intentions which gave him the possibility of controlling the truth and of manipulating people like Winston or Julia
Ananda Paez
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Post by apaez on Aug 26, 2010 13:46:56 GMT -5
Another character I liked very much is Big Brother. I like him because he is an extremely intelligent man who achieved what he wanted. Big Brother is the kind of man who can control everything including the way people think and who can make sure that no one will stop him by using the Thought Police. In my opinion, humanity's greatest weakness is how easily we follow the crowd and how hard it is for us to stand up against authority. Big Brother took advantage of this weakness and was able to change people's behavior by convincing them that hatred was important, that War was Peace, that Freedom was Slavery and that Ignorance was Strength without being opposed. People like Winston, who were a very small portion of the population, and who challenged statements that the party assured to be true, were destined to either die or suffer under the hands of the Thought Police, for almost every citizen was loyal to Big Brother and therefore those who challenged him could be easily caught. I also liked him because he was capable of manipulating the truth and of convincing people that his truth as real truth. I like the way he uses his intelligence and the way he manipulates others and even though I wouldn't want to actually meet someone like Big brother, I believe that he is an excellent character that causes a lot of suspense and an interesting atmosphere in the novel, one that as a reader I truly enjoyed.
Ananda Paez
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Post by dcontag on Aug 27, 2010 17:16:02 GMT -5
My favorite character of the book 1984 by Gorge Orwell is the protagonist of the story, Winston Smith. He was a very bright man who once he had full knowledge of things he developed a strong opinion, he would be very persistent with his ideas. Thought the story Winston shows his disapprove for the Party, for Big Brother. He makes us notice the harsh lives people were having, the lack of logical thinking and with the exaggeration the Party ruled with. This thirty nine year old man committed numerous “crimes” according to the Party’s rules; he published in his diary negative thoughts about Big Brother, and having an affair with Julia. He was caught by the Thought Police because Mr. Charrington, the man who gave Winston and Julia the room above his shop for rent, turned out he was a Thought Police member. Although his revelry led him to torture and being brain washed in this kind of prison; I noticed the perseverance he showed at all times, he had hope in this place were hope didn’t even exist. He ended up being legitimate and loyal to Big Brother after being brain washed. Diana Contag
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Post by ignacio on Aug 28, 2010 10:19:15 GMT -5
My favorite character of the book 1984, were O Brien a secondary character, because he were a men that no one could imagine. First he seems to be part of a conspiracy against the Totalitarian government, but he really work with the government in the ministry of love, wash braining the people who opposed the party. O Brien was a very intelligent man that could know if someone were laying to him. He was a very good persuader he could make any person think like him using rare methods. Ignacio Saenz
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Post by ignacio on Aug 28, 2010 10:25:41 GMT -5
My other favorite character was Winston Smith the protagonist of the book. He was a very intelligent person with strong ideas of revolution. He was against the party of Big Brother in many different ways but most on his way of thinking. He met with Julia and makes every thing just to see her. Winston has always thought in the past before the party rule the society he was a dreamer. Ignacio Saenz
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Post by palvarez on Aug 28, 2010 11:53:18 GMT -5
My favorite character in the novel 1984 is Winston Smith. He is the central character of the story and he lives in Oceania. He is in the negligible class of the rule of the Party . I like him because he opposes to the totalitarian rule of the Big Brother and the Party. He rebels against them by writing the dairy and having sex with Julia. That showed courage by doing that because he knew he was being spy and if the police captured him he would be killed. He is very thoughtful with the many things and point of view and the hopes Winston has for a better tomorrow. This character also had that feeling of freedom and independence and he showed those feelings by rebelling and making those dangerous thought crimes Unfortunately his hopes were not accomplish because he was brain washed and tortured thanks to O’Brien and Mr. Charrintong because they were with Big Brother's power. I think this character was the best because he fought for a just cause and wanted to end the depression, fear, and sadness of all the people. Pablo Alvarez
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Post by mponce on Aug 28, 2010 17:44:51 GMT -5
My favorite character was Winston Smith. He lives in Oceania and is thirty nine years old. He works as a minor member of the ruling party of Big Brother. I liked him because of his way of thinking and analyzing things, he is always looking forward. Winston is a very intelligent and thoughtful man. Throughout the book he shows us that he hates totalitarianism and that is completely against the ruling party. I admire him because he is very brave and had many revolutionary dreams. He is able to criticize and even hate the party where there people didn’t have any freedom of speech or thought. He was always thinking about the party and people. All his life he wanted to know how where the days before the party was ruling and if people lived better, but he never knew the truth. Maria Mercedes Ponce
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Post by Bernardo Missura on Aug 28, 2010 23:12:51 GMT -5
My favorite character of the book 1984 was Winston Smith. He is the protagonist of this novel, I liked him the most because, he could distinguish good from wrong, he was very brave, he continued with his ideals, in which the world needed true freedom and also because he was against the Party and Big Brother, he knew that that society was opressed by the domination of Big Brother, and people who were against them, couldn't do something because of the telescreens, and Thought Police. Winston tried to do something about it, for example; he bought the diary, that was supposely written for someone in the future, he also tried to find out how was the life before the Party, and that is were he goes to that pub and talked to that old man, and finally he joined the "Brotherhood". To go against the rules, and do that, it must have taken great courage. Winston Smith is thirty nine years old and he lives in Oceania, he is a minor member of the Party and he works at the Ministry of Truth faking records. Bernardo Missura
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Post by cus8 on Aug 29, 2010 0:05:42 GMT -5
The character that I liked the most was Winston Smith, being him the only one that has his individuality and was never oppressed to the manipulation of the government. Winston is a 39 years old, he has a job in the government. He lives a very lonely life with no friends of family. With no one close to him. He was a revel in his society, Winston writes a diary were says how much the hates the society he lives on, his thoughts and different feelings. He loves to imagine how thinks could be different, and in they were how would they be. But their is no way he could discover that because all history book were burned. However there are to over people that matter to Winston, one of them is Julia and OBrien. He is some how in love with julia but at first he is scared to talk to her because he think she is the kind of person that will sent him to the police. Then he just thinks Obrien is intelligent and will understand him in every way. So as we can se Winstone was a revel he is a person that will look further into thinks and will come out with his own conclusions. O'brien make up a trap to sent Winstone to the authorities, Winston is catch by the police because he was having a love relationship with julia and because he was a reveling to big brothers ideals. Then he is tortured until he will give up completely and his mind was in complete control of the government. They manage to do so and Winston turns into a weak and vulnerable people and he ends being one manipulated human in the dystopia of the book.
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Post by canda on Aug 29, 2010 2:42:03 GMT -5
My favorite character of the novel 1984 written by George Orwell is Julia. I like Julia because she is the only person, besides Winston, that we could be sure that hates the Party and wants to rebel against it. I like Julia’s personality too because she lives the moment, she doesn’t worry much about future and she is optimistic when she does. She never thinks she could be caught by being with Winston and she is always positive in contrast to Winston. Julia doesn’t care much about the Party’s affairs and whether the war enemy has changed, but she worries more about planning how she and Winston will depart from their hiding places and when they will meet again. Julia also manifests her unconformity with the Party by acting in a rebel way like having relationships with many Part members, walking in Prole neighborhoods and taking “real” food to her meeting with Winston. Julia is also intelligent because she disturbs the Party’s attention by being a voluntary at Junior Anti-Sex League; she makes sure she is “safe” that way.
Camila Anda
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Post by majosetorres on Aug 29, 2010 10:36:25 GMT -5
The character I liked the most is, the protagonist, Winston Smith. In the novel 1984 Winston Smith has a unique way of thinking and analyzing things among the people who lives around him. He is constantly questioning the Party and bringing up opposing ideas against it, but he can’t really share these ideas to anyone just to his diary which made it more frustrating for him. Winston is trapped in a capsule of lies and he knows it, but there isn’t much he can do because if he tells anyone about his hating ideas he could be caught by the thought police and be punished like it happened in the end. I think Winston acts like a human of the real world because he trusted on someone believing that he thinks the same way as him and made a huge mistake which humans are frequently doing.Winston was a character I really liked because of his way of thinking profoundly in each event and action that happened around him. For example, when O’Brien gave him a mysterious look and made Winston think that he might be feeling the same way as him. Winston has a strong mind because he doesn’t let the Party to brain wash him at the beggining but later he makes us realize that language and the power of the mind can finally be a way of controlling and manipulating the brain. All these characteristics that represent Winston made me chose him as my favorite character of the novel. Maria Jose Torres
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Post by dhidalgo on Aug 29, 2010 15:19:30 GMT -5
My favorite character in this novel is Winston Smith, the common man, easy for the reader to identify and sympathize with. He is thirty-nine-years-old, physically frail and thin, employed as a records editor in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth. I think he is the most interesting character because of the fact of not being oppressed by Big Brother. He is the only one who doubts about this dystopia and has lots of inquiries about the world he lives in. He is very thoughtful and observant. Winston is very concerned with Party philosophy, and in particular its control of history through the manipulation of records. This is the process that h participates every day process in which he participates daily. Winston spends much of his time accounting for the real past and thinking on his rebellious tendencies. He starts a journal about his anti-Party thoughts. More than anything, Winston looks for the truth – and the only way to attain that is by rebelling against the rule of the Party. He was the only one that could have individualities, because he discovered how Big Brother was influencing every other individual. I admire this protagonist because of his ideas; his strength to seek for what is right and not what they tell you. He came up with the idea of being free, and that everyone could do so. I liked how he fought to try to find out, and even though he ended un being brainwashed as everyone else, he was the only one that tried to stick to his ideas against authority.
Daniel Hidalgo
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