Winston Smith's Life- Questions IMPORTANT HELP PLEASE

[bendh18]

So for my english project I have to make a resume of Winston Smith. Can anyone help me with some info? All I have is that he works at the ministry and that he lives in London.

I need info on education, job experience and skills please!!!!

Also, who is his boss?

Thanks
Ben

[The Atheist]

So for my english project I have to make a resume of Winston Smith. Can anyone help me with some info? All I have is that he works at the ministry and that he lives in London.

I need info on education, job experience and skills please!!!!

Also, who is his boss?

Thanks
Ben

We know he's about 40 and has been married, although what happened to his wife isn't covered.

He's not in good health, details of which are given.

Based on the book, it would be a very short cv.

We never know anything about the structure of Winston's job, or who his boss might be.

[Gladys]

I'm a third way into the novel. Winston Smith has worked for some years in 'the Records Department' of the Ministry of Truth' in London. He works with enthusiasm on lies for the Ministry where he shows a talent for rewriting politically inconvenient history.


On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of The Times leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak.


and


Winston's greatest pleasure in life was in his work.

Winston sat on 'a sub−committee of a sub−committee which had sprouted from one of the innumerable committees dealing with minor difficulties that arose in the compilation of the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary'.

[Jack Fields]

He works with enthusiasm on lies for the Ministry...

I wouldn´t say, that he works with enthusiasm on lies. Have to disagree with that one :)

He works there because he have to, and I doubt that he is happy about making lies, and about altering history.

[Wilde woman]

He likes snowglobe-y paperweights.:rolleyes:

To elaborate on his poor health, he has a varicose ulcer on his ankle. He hates Group Exercise. You could argue that he conforms to Party politics by drinking their Victory Gin and smoking their Victory Cigarettes. He also has a complicated relationship (a guilty conscience?) with his deceased mother.

Maybe this character analysis will help you a little bit: http://www.shmoop.com/character/literature/george-orwell/1984/winston-smith.html

No offense to you, bendh, but I think this assignment is pointless.

[Gladys]

He works there because he have to, and I doubt that he is happy about making lies, and about altering history. I feel Orwell is telling us that life in the dystopia is so thoroughly futile that a high point for Winston is the craftsmanship involved in rewriting a complex history.