1984 O Brien Character Analysis

Believing that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood and he too is opposed to the Party, Julia and Winston pay him a visit at his apartment. O’Brien tells the two that they must be willing to lose their own lives in order to take down Big Brother; however, when he asks if they would be willing to betray one another, they refuse. Winston’s hatred for Big Brother has accumulated so much that he is now willing to die solely for the sake of taking down the Party. At the start of the novel, Winston could not stand the thought of his own death. The thought haunted him, and he was not prepared for that to happen. As the story progresses and Winston is being oppressed in more and more ways, he despises the Party more than ever, and eventually is

I think George Orwell knew about this and used it to keep the events interesting. But this also lets us see Winston from a different perspective. I was really anticipating the moment when Winston would meet with O’Brien. I was feeling positive towards O’Brien from the moment when him and Winston crossed eyes. He is one of those people who have a lot of power and could be of big help to Winston, if he actually is unorthodox. The author built up the suspense and made me impatient to see what would happen when they finally meet. And the moment of the meeting I gained a lot of hope for our main character. When O’Brien said that the Brotherhood was real I actually thought that the novel was building up to the part when there will be a civil war. I was expecting to see one happen with Goldstein as the leader. Many of the predictions that George Orwell made are actually coming true in our lives. Today we have cameras that capture the lives of citizens as they go about their business. Also computer records store data for everybody and this includes health records, work, families, shopping habits etc. The Internet gives information into the private lives of people and glimpses into their homes. “1984” reminds me of a book series called “The Hunger Games”. The setting and story are very similar in many aspects, the difference being that “The Hunger Games” is aimed

O’Brien’s relationship with Winston provides him a much-needed justification for his thoughts, and even after revealing himself to be a thought police, the respect from Winston is unwavered. From the first chapters of the novel, it is clear that Winston desires O’Briens justification. When Winston and O’Brien meet eyes for the first time, Winston says that he “ was thinking the same thing as himself. An unmistakable message had passed. “. Even though brief, the eye contact with O'Brien right after experiencing the 2-minute hate speaks more than

Authors often use their works as a way to express their own opinions and ideologies. However, it is the skill of the author that determines whether these ideas are combined with the plot seamlessly, making a creative transition of ideas from the author’s mind, to the reader’s. There is no doubt that George Orwell is a masterful writer, and one of his most popular works, 1984, clearly expresses his negative views of the Totalitarian government. A common theme in the dystopian society in 1984 is betrayal: The Party is very intolerant towards any form of disloyalty, and anyone who plots against them or Big Brother will eventually either betray their own mind and accept Big Brother as their leader, or be betrayed and revealed to The Party by

Lastly, when O’Brien came in contact with Winston, he asked about Big Brother and asked to join their party. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some/ kind of secret organization working against the Party, and/ that you are involved in it. We want to join it and work for/ it. “(177) In this quotation, Winston clearly exposes the fact that he is against Big Brother and he wants to join O’Brien’s group, and that he doesn’t care about the fact that O’Brien may be just pretending to be an ally, or the fact that even thinking of going against Big Brother can kill him. This clearly shows how brave Winston is compared to all the other people in Oceania who have yet to dare such a thing.

In the final section of the book, he admits ruefully that they got him a long time ago, and goes on to assert that “the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.” The discourses of O’Brien in this last section strip bare not just the methods but the motives and the intentions of the totalitarian regime that seks power for its own sake. Winston is not just defeated and destroyed but completely metamorphosed in the ministry of Love. As O’Brien promises him, “ ‘Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.’ ”(p.206)

Deception. Perhaps we all have been deceived at one point or another in our lives – maybe you were deceived by your parents, into thinking that they would buy you a certain present for Christmas, only to realize on December 25th that it is not the present you were hoping for. Imagine being deceived almost every day of your life; telescreens to monitor your every move, even your eyes can give away the slightest piece of evidence, and there is no justice for the innocent; because after all, no one is innocent. Now imagine Oceania; set in the future, written in 1948. Airstrip One, previously referred to as London. Ravished by war, poor living conditions, poor wages and a total

many unnecessary risks such as trusting O'Brien, renting the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop and

Later in the novel,Winston was at work in the Ministry of truth, his role there was to alter past articles into what “The Party” wanted. His senior manager, O’ Brien, strangely invites Winston to his house, then claims that he is a member of the Anti-Party Brotherhood. Winston undoubtedly believes every word O’ Brien says and goes home

After capturing Winston Smith for thought crime, O’Brien describes real power as “tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your choosing” (Orwell 266). By this he explains that true power is being able to choose what people minds think. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, Winston, a Ministry of Truth worker who hates the Party, slowly starts to disobey the Party rules such as having freedom of thought and individuality. He entrusts a Party member, O’Brien, with his secret for the hatred of the Party. O’Brien reveals that he is a high Party leader who will fix Winston’s corrupt mind. Throughout this novel, it demonstrates that government is controlling people’s minds and

Leaving out key details while telling the majority of the truth defines omission lying. Likewise, inner-party members often commit omission lying, specifically when O’Brien acts as if he identifies with the Brotherhood. At first, Winston believes that O’Brien is part of the party but secretly possesses the desire to take down Big Brother and join the Brotherhood. Soon after, Winston finds himself receiving “a message” from O’Brien that he, in fact, belongs to the movement against the Party. The “message” comes in their first verbal interaction with each other when O’Brien explains, “‘[t]he tenth edition is not due to appear for some months, I believe. But a few advance copies have been circulated. I have one myself. It might interest you to

O'Brian is the physical antagonist in the novel, in the beginning of the book Winston compares him to a eighteenth century nobleman, which is proved wrong when it is revealed that he works for the Party and becomes Winston's torturer. O'Brian serves as the speaker of the Party and it is through him during Winston's torture that we hear from more less the source of the justifications behind the Party's conduct. He provides the reader with the Party's views of power, sanity, and on ideas such as double think, reality control. But by the end of the novel we learn that he is about as far from a nobleman as you can get, he is the manifestation of the Party's oppressive ideas.

Winston 's current situation working there is the major factor which lets him realize how Big brothers hold back the peoples opportunity to freedom. However, Winston keeps his thoughts and hate about Big Brother and the party for his own secret in his diary because the party will not allow anyone keeping a rebellious idea. After a while Big Brother realizes Winston’s suspicious behavior and has an individual named O’Brien sent to watch over Winston. O’Brien is a very smart man from the Ministry of truth, who is a member of the 'inner party '(the higher class). Winston comes to trust him and shares his inner secrets and ideas about the rebellion against Big Brother. O 'Brien tells Winston about a man named Emmanuel Goldstein whom claims to know the leader of the rebels against Big Brother. This also promises Winston to get a copy of the book he Longley desires. Suddenly O’Brien goes against Winston as Big Brother had already planned. Showing major secretive external conflict.

The character O’Brien in 1984 reinforces how government can alter facts and logic, when provided with enough power. While the main protagonist, Winston, is being interrogated and converted to the logic of The Party, he struggles to grasp the concept and contradicts it. “O’Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. ‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’ ‘Four.’ ‘And if the Party says that it is not four but five―then how many?’ ‘Four.’ “The word ended in a gasp of pain” (Orwell 249). Even though there are glaring shortcomings in the government of 1984, everyone is kept in a constant state of fear from the possible consequences to speak out against it. Later in his interrogation, Winston begins to realize that the party is too powerful for him to overcome it, page 262 best emphasizes this feeling. “What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” (Orwell 262). The Party purposefully destines people to have the same feeling of hopelessness that Winston constantly succumbs to in his life after this event. No matter what he tries to do, think, or say, he knows that it is all just a pitifully valiant attempt to stop government changing what is fact, and what is logic. Brave

First of propaganda in the book 1984 was a huge way to get the society of people manipulated This was O'brien using propaganda against Winston because he is showing him all the things that the party has done and shows actual