1984 Post 2

1. Winston is experiencing difficulty because he is an outsider to the society he lives in. He was born outside of its parameters and thus he knows even if it's mostly sub consciously that there is something more.There was life before Big Brother and not everything he says is actually truth. He remembers airplanes from his childhood and he knows the didn't come from Big Brother.

2. Winston questions the party in every way. He defies them in both thought and action. He writes a secret diary, he participates in acts of raging passion very much forbade by the party, and he doubts the party in every way. It is in a way a protest, but even more just a yearning to experience life. He wants to love, have, and think. He wants to be able to love Julia with passion and sex. He wants to have things that the government forbade. He wants to think his own thoughts which in many ways violate the party's laws. He just wants to be able to chose and live how he wishes. It has little to do with outright opposition of the party.

3. Winston's small protests differ greatly from the protests of Tea Party members. Winston makes choices that violate law while most modern protest groups do not, at least on paper. Also Winston's actions are more for the benefit of him alone. He doesn't serve a greater purpose in the same way that tea part members do.

4. Our society is not very Orwellian. Our people can point out the flaws of the government. Past discrepancies and miscalculations aren't rectified by a ministry of truth, but rather are available for all to see and judge. The fact that we have things like occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement prove that we are not Orwellian in nature because we allow free thought and disagreement with the government.