Illustrator

Illustrator

 Illustrator - Week One    

 - Katie & Sylvana

Sylvana's Pictures

This image is not a specific scene that occurs in the first section of the novel,
but it represents (specifically the eye in this image) the type of society the
characters in the novel experience. It is a society where everyone constantly
lives in fear and is always being watched, hence the eye and the quote, "Big Brother is watching".
The image also conatins other quotes and words that represent the control and fear the party wants and causes.


Katie's Pictures

   This picture is during the two minutes hate when Winston locks eyes with

                                       O'Brien. This is important because it's the first major

                                      moment when Winston realizes that the society he is living in is

                                    wrong. He also realizes he is not alone in this thinking, there

                                   are other people who question their loyalty to big brother.

                                  This is a major part of Winston's dissent from the big brother

                                    party.

Sylvana's pictures -Symbols
The first symbol is a date, April 4th 1984. This is a significant date as
this is the day that Winston (the protagonist) first commits a serious act
of rebellion toward the government party in rule. This is the day that he
starts writing in his red book, which was frowned upon. The act of rebellion
is important/significant as it foreshadows that he may try to do something
more to rebel against, or possibly even overthrow, the government.
The second symbol is his red book, which he bought at a second hand store,
where the proles (lower society members, or those with a no rank or position
or not working in the party). For a person such as Winston to go and buy,
much less keep an old item or book (the book is more of a journal as it has
no writing in it) was not allowed, and very punishable, and again shows the
start of his rebellious attitude and demeanour towards the Party.
The third symbol is a Newspeak dictionary, which contained all the new and
removed words (from our English, referred to as Oldspeak in the novel)
within it. Newspeak is important to note as the purpose of the language 
was to make thoughts of rebellion and "unorthodoxy" inconceivable, because
they would not exist. This represents again the Party's need for control and 
it was a way to ensure complete control over their population.
The final symbol was a telescreen, which is a device placed in every room,
and all around that would always have propaganda spoken from it. You could
not trun them off, you could only turn them down. The telescreens could also
pick up the quietest things said around them. They are a way to observe and
influence the population, and they also caused fear amoung the citizens
because no words shared were private, the Party always new what you were doing.
This was a form of control over the citizens, as they controlled what you heard and said
(the later based on fear of what they might do to you if you said something unorthodox).
Therefore, the telescreens, again, represented control.

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Section # 5 Evan

Symbols & Images


The Slate

I chose to draw the slate that Winston is given while he is in captivity because it is the point in the novel where we see his rebellion crushed. Before he was captured he had a great resolve against the party and their teachings but at this point he gives up and decides that he's gonna try and believe the party's teachings.  


The Razorblade

                                                                                                                    

I chose to draw a razor blade because when Winston is first captured and in "the place where there is no darkness", he hopes and longs for someone from the rebellion to slip him a razor blade so he can end his life and not have to go through any kind of torture. This was very interesting to me because at the start of the novel, Winston begins to write in his diary and accepts the fact that he will probably be killed by the thought police, and he makes remarks about how writing in the diary is like committing suicide, but now he is actually wanting to end his own life out of fear for whats to come.

The Chestnut Tree

I chose to draw the chestnut tree and put the rhyme that they say in the book because of the last scene in the book. He is at the Chestnut Tree Pub and has an exchange with Julia. Its interesting that his exchange with Julia happens at the Chestnut Tree Pub because it is the first time they saw each other after being captured and eventually selling each other out. This relates very interestingly to the rhyme they always say in the book that is featured in the above picture.


The Drink

Victory Gin is something we see Winston only partake of at the start of the novel and at the end. This is interesting because when he first drinks a glass of it, life is normal. He is going about his day to day and it is only until after he finished, he starts writing in his diary. I found this to being an interesting parallel to the end scene in the novel where Winston is brainwashed by the party and going about his day to day normal life, drinking the same kind of victory gin.

The Anticlimax- Main Illustration

Room 101. The mystery of 1984. The one thing on the back of the book that made me intrigued enough to pick up the novel. The only thing that I have to say after reading the section in room 101 is : "LAME." Although Room 101 does bring in everyones personal fears, it was not scary at all. I was hoping for something that made me cringe, made me get immersed, and the threat of rats did not do it for me. So in short, I chose to draw this as my main picture because of my discontent.

The first symbol is Winston Smith's diary, this symbol is important

because it shows Winston's initial dissent from the party and big brother ,

it also shows his thoughts towards the party and society. Next is the poster of

Big Brother, everyone is required to have this in their home and it is all over

       the streets; it shows how people believe there is freedom but there really isn't, this

          shows how controlling their society is. The third symbol is of the telescreen, this is

                 mentioned a lot in the book everyone has one in their homes. I personally pictured it as

               a giant screen covering a wall and this basically shows again the controlling society

                  because the people are being watched and monitored through the screen. The final symbol 

                   is the newspeak dictionary this comes up a lot near the end of the section, it's important

                 because it shows how the language is changing and the reason why it's changing is to

 prevent and make it impossible to be a thought criminal.

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Part 2 (chapters 6-part 2)

The Room of Defiance

In the large section of the worksheet, I have illustrated the upper room in the old, little
antique shop where he once bought his diary. As described in the novel the furniture
in the room is arranged as if it was meant to be lived in it. There is a window that looks
onto a cobbled yard, a small carpet on the floor, a picture on the wall, a deep, slatternly
armchair drawn up to a fireplace, a glass clock and a bed with an old mattress still on it.
I drew this room because I feel it stands for Winston’s defiance against the Party. By
going into that room, it was the climax of his odd walk to clear his mind. In the novel,
 we see many things that he did after work one afternoon that potentially could get him
 in to big trouble, or worst killed. First he went for a walk by himself in a poverty
stricken part of the city, this activity is known as ‘ownlife’ in Newspeak, something that
 is dangerous. Second, he went into bar, drank beer and talked about the past. Finally
he arrived in the little shop, bought an antique, talked to the old shop owner about what
 life was once like and then they walked up into the upper room. There they talked of old
 churches, old games and nursery rhymes. Just being in that part of the city, showed
how Winston has already changed since the novel started. We have seen small glimpses
of defiance, but by going on this small adventure, we see the first time it is truly executed
 in public.

Symbol 1: Memory Hole

This symbol is first introduced in the previous sections, but is frequently used and referred
 to in the second section. This is a ‘hole’ used for the disposal of paper. This represents
 the corrupt nature of Party, and their lust for complete control over everything, in the
 present, past and future. Anything that the Party gave Winston to revisit or change
 was directed to change what is recorded on paper. This is something Winston struggles
with for a long time. He struggles with what he knows are true, he tried to find answers
of what life was like before the Revolution. The main purpose of the memory hole is so
that not even the ashes of the documents remain. This is what the Party tries to do with
the memories of anything before the 60s.

Symbol 2: Lettered Lies

The Times released to the public is full of lies, not only the written media is corrupt but
any novel, textbook, magazine, pamphlets or any written document contain fabrications
of what the government wants to say is true. Daily, we learn, the Times are revisited
 making sure that everything is creditable by what the Party wants the public to believe
 is true. This symbol, like the memory hole represents the corrupt and controlling nature
 of the Party. But it also shows how far they are willing to go to make sure that the past,
 present and future is all under their control.

 Symbol 3: Gambling Games

This symbol I feel represents how the morals of the lower class people have changed over
 time. The Lottery turned into a life or death game where everyone places their money
into the hope that they will win a large sum of money. In their reality, the winners are fake
 people that the Party makes up, and only small amounts of money are given to some
winners. It was said that everyone, whether they are literate or not, everyone found a
system with the numbers. The Lottery shows how the ideologies of the people changed,
society puts hope into winning from the government. In an overall note, the community in
Oceania puts all its faith into the government telling the truth, but only lies are fed to the
 people in return to their forced loyalty. 

Symbol 4: Hopeful Rings

This symbol represents the small glimmer of hope Winston carries with him that he
 will find an answer to all the questions he conveys. In the upper room of the antique
shop, the owner talks about the churches that were once in London and the nursery rhymes
that went along with the series of churches in the old town. The man talks of bells and
Winston Thinks to himself about how curious it is that he seems to have an illusion of
hearing the bells. Yet, he cannot not remember a time where he actually ever heard a bell
chime, and as far as he knows, all the bells in London have been destroyed. This little hope
 that allows Winston to hear the bells is what is driving him to continue to search for answers
 and what allows him to not crumble under the power and corruption of the Party.

Beth Larmand

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Allyson Throp                            Chapters: Part 2, 8- Part 3                    

April 29/ 14

Initiation to the Brotherhood: acknowledgement of Goldstein and introduction to "The Book".

For this section of the book I decided upon the invent in which Winston, along with Julia, visit O' Brien's home for the first time, and are initiated into the Brotherhood. I felt this an important event to illustrate due to it being the final nail in Winston's coffin for rebellion; the transition from quiet, petty rebels to ones of clear opposition. This is also the point in which you find O' Brien give solid proof that he is with the Brotherhood, passing a book and words which contain the mode of operations of Goldstein's spies, as well as their manifesto.

Title: "The Book", or Goldstein's Manifesto

I chose this image as my first symbol due to its major role in educating Winston about the Party, and its true goals. The manifesto itself takes up near twenty pages of the novel, and is therefore an integral piece to the puzzle of  the Party. It represents the knowledge which would ruin the Party, and the information which keeps alive the sense of retribution all unorthodox thinkers have, and fuels the rebellion.


Accepted and Forgotten Change in Enemy

This symbol was chosen because it displays a major event which happened in this section, that of Hate Week, and the abrupt change in enemy that occurred during the tail end of it. This displays "doublethink" very well, as puts emphasis on how fast people can adapt themselves to believe in something they know to be false, but change to be true. This is one of many instances which give example to this idea, but I believe this is one of the more shocking and bold of the lot.


Song of the Proles 

The image of the woman singing in the novel
"You are the Dead"

Part 2- Chapter 8
Julia Loewen

Winston and Julia's official meeting place:

I chose to draw the room that Winston and Julia rent out at the shop owned by Charrington. The majority of this section is spent here, or figuring out how to meet or get there. This room is the place where the biggest rebellion Winston and Julia commit takes place. At this point in the book, the only thing they can really do to keep themselves happy is have an affair. The room symbolizes their rebellion and stand against the Party.

For the first symbol, I chose to draw the note that began the whole affair. Julia slipped Winston a note saying that she loves him, which begins their meetings together. It seemed interesting to me that she would write "I love you" even though she doesn't even know him. It can't be possible for her to truly love him, so what were her true motives in writing that sentence? Could it be that she is seeking someone else who shares her hatred for Big Brother? Or maybe she really thinks she is in love with Winston, or maybe she is just looking for an affair. Either way it is the beginning of their rebellion.

Next I chose the symbol of Julia's anit-sex league sash. This is supposed to symbolize Julia's virtues and virginity, even though she is quite the opposite and has been having affairs since she was 16 years old.

The next symbol was the symbol of the flowers. I found it interesting that when Winston and Julia meet for the first time he feels like he should pick flowers for her, so he does so, but later he tells the story of when him and his wife were walking and he pointed out flowers down a hill. He was tempted to push her down and kill her in that moment. The flowers symbolize his new "love" for Julia and also his dislike for his wife.

Finally, I chose Julia's the makeup, dress and shoes that Julia bought in the black market or planned to buy. It symbolizes Julia's true identity as a woman, and how she wants to be a real woman not a "Party comrade". This as also another symbol of her rebellion, as she can only dress like this in their hideout.