Character Descriptions Exercise: Share Your Best
Put your best, 50-word (only!), description for one of the characters as a comment to this post. Please have it entered before class meets on Friday!
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Mrs. Parsons is tired. She is a mother of a young boy and her appearance would make someone think that life has taken its toll on her. "She was a woman about thirty but looking much older." Young children take a lot of energy and it looks like hers is running out
A Portrait of Winston
Winston, a daydreamer who indulges in reveries, likes to figure out everything reasonably and pours them out on his diary. His mind either wandered back to the painful memories or slides away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. Absent-minded in the morning exercise, he concerns himself with the party’s history.
Comment from Tien:
O'Brien is a member of the Inner Party. He has the builb of a "burly" and "thick-necked," with a coarse humorous brutal face. Winston mistakenly believes that
he is a friend and a revolutionary; actually, he is a
torturer, a fanatic and a kind of inquisitor whose aim
is to convert his victims to "orthodoxy" before he
executes them.
My choice –the Singing Woman
The Singing Woman has no name. Winston often watched her from the room’s window at the Antiques Store. For Winston, she symbolizes freedom and beauty, even though she is physically a monstrous, rather than beautiful woman. Her beauty is in her voice, in her tuneful singing and in her natural movements.
O’Brian is enigmatical throughout the novel. However, when he tortures Winston, he is very wicked. He can read another’s thoughts, so according to Winston’s answer, he changes his torturing method. Sometimes, O’Brien pretends to sympathize with Winston to get correct answers that the Party wants. Sometimes, he tortures Winston mercilessly and cruelly.
O’Brien: A cruel and dangerous member of the Inner Party, who sees through people with his piercing eyes. He likes being powerful over others. His power is shown even when he speaks to Winston in jail; he does it in oratorical manner as if he addresses a large audience. He torments people and enjoys making them suffer.
57 words
Katharine is an ignorant, stupid person, who lives with the Party’s slogans in her head. She believes in its general ideology and recognizes that the only purpose of marriage is to have children for the service of the Party. If she could detect Winston’s real opinion about the Party’s activity, she would denounce him to the Thought Police. Winston thinks she is an inconvenient person to him.
67 words
O’Brien
He is an attractive man. In spite of his formidable appearance he has “a certain charm of manner” that makes both Winston and Julia trust him and believe that O’Brien is on their side. Though he tortures Winston badly, Winston doesn’t hate him because of O’Brien’s spell.
Mr. Charrington is suspicious. He has a junk shop with no customers, except Winston. He lets Winston rents a neat room of junk shop’s up stair only a few dollars week, and the room is a twelve hour clock. He tells Winston some stories about the past, but he tells the first part, and then misses the last part, and it goes opposite
Syme
Syme is a philologist. The political system makes him lose his humanity. He thinks “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” He even says, “It was a good hanging…I like to see them(feet) kicking…the tongue sticking right out…That’s the detail that appeals to me.” when he talks about the hanging prisoner.
Mr. Parsons is a proud man. He has been in many different leagues during his life. From the Youth League to the Spies, he was even on the Sports committee, where he would demonstrate different things. He was proud that “he had put in an appearance at the Community Centre every evening for the past four years”
Brad,
Sorry this is late, the internet isnt working at our place, i had to go into work early today one of the bartenders is sick, im st work now and im here till 11 at least!I wanted to do my test today too, how about wed.?
Winston Smith is an intelligent, suffering man. He is frail and barely able to endure his surroundings, and the fate of his life. He has memories of times being different, which makes him desperate for a revolution. Winston is a curious, resistant, desperate man trying not to believe the all the propaganda surrounding him. He uses his diary to escape reality. By writing down his rebellious thoughts considered “thought crime,” he knows his fate is doomed; he can’t resist.
a little over in word: 79
O’Brien is an evil character with an angel appearance. During the novel the protagonist shows a cynic way of playing with his victim. Orwell use the word "smile" in unusual situations: “the grim face broke down into what might have been the big inning of a smile […] O’Brien turn to Winston with a smile […] O’Brien smile again”. This sarcastic smile that is flying from his face is a cruel mirror of the fact that he enjoys the torture. His diabolical character is excellent portrayed by creating a false image of trusting personality. “Winston had the filling that O’Brien was his protector that the pain was something that came from outside, […] and that it was O’Brien who would save from it.”
O’Brien is a complex personality, a demonic mind with trusting aspect.
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