Winstons Job

[Teacher]

Rebecca....


What Is winstons job? I know that he lies but what for??? :confused:

[kaka]

I'm not Rebecca, but there's nothing mysterious about Winston's job. He works in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspapers. For example, if Big Brother made a prediction that hasn't come true, it's Winston's job to go back and alter the prediction.

So, Winston's job is part of the Party's vast project for permanently rewriting history. In particular, if Oceania changes its ally, this needs fixing ...

For those who may be inclined to ask why Winston doesn't change his job, it's taken for granted in the novel that the government decides what jobs people have. This was standard practice in 1940s totalitarian states.

[finalbreath55]

winston lies for big brother he is the guy they go to when they dont want something in the newspapper he puts it in the vaporiser and rewrites the newspaper to big brothers liking.

[SnowAngel51]

Dont you find it funny how Winston dislikes big brother but yet works for them writting lies to their likings . In the end it all catches up to him but still its a basic part of the novel that is quite an interesting point . :smash:

[Stanislaw]

Dont you find it funny how Winston dislikes big brother but yet works for them writting lies to their likings . In the end it all catches up to him but still its a basic part of the novel that is quite an interesting point . :smash:

How many people today don't enjoy filling out their taxes...but do it anyways?

[nns]

you find the answer to your question on Chapter 3 (part I):
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"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink"
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cheers,
nns