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How do writers use isolated/alienated characters in order to explore their…

- - - - Leads to feelings of helplessness, loneliness, insecurity, and ignorance
  - - - "There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother."
- - - - Winston's relationship with Katharine also made him feel alienated as he did not feel any sort of connection with her.
    - - Physical isolation
        
        Winston and Julia physically isolate themselves from the rest of the citizens of Oceania, they do this to keep their love and illegal acts a secret, to prevent themselves from getting caught by the telescreens and Big Brother.
        
        Sentimental location of the rooms above Mr. Charrington's junkshop. This is a place where they both experienced feelings of love, relaxation, confusion, and ultimately terror.
        
        The isolation they have from the rest of Oceania explore societies values and views towards love and relationships. The views of the society suppport Big Brother due to Doublethink and the lack of ability for them to form independent thought.
  - - - Winston and Memories: Winston is alienated from the rest of society as he is the only one with "real memories"
      - Because he is alone in having memories, it makes him question the reliability of his memories. Memories are easily influenced by the Party and the media, and is a key factor in maintaining their power. As long as the people live in a perpetual present, with no memory of the past and no hope for a future, they will maintain under the Party's control. Orwell uses this to show the effect of media and propaganda in totalitarian systems. When the line between truth and fiction is blurred, there is no recollection of true memories. Without memories, the people only have the Party to rely on for information, which they alter according to the present, this is what Winston does for a living. (As someone who's job is to rewrite the past, Winston, unlike his peers, is always questioning the truth of what he hears and sees and his goal is to seek the ultimate truth
    - - His diary shows his need to connect with personal history and is the act of his inner rebellion against the Party. This subconsciously shows his need to form connections with others. This shows the negative impacts of isolation.
- - - - define alienated/isolated, explain Orwell's political purpose of writing 1984- "every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" Orwell said in his essay "why I write"
      - explain more about the characters focused in this essay, Winston, and state 1984's values in society- totalitarianism
  - - - Conclude points