1984 Rhetorical Analysis

Syme, a character working in a department tasked with simplifying the English language, states, “‘[W]e shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it’” (Orwell 52). The Party plans to overly simplify language not only to lower the overall intelligence of Oceania’s citizens, but also to make it impossible for them to comprehend anything contradictory to what The Party stands for. Soon after referring to the impossibility of thoughtcrime through Newspeak, Syme elaborates, “Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like ‘freedom is slavery’ when the concept of freedom has been abolished’ (Orwell 53). Removing the word “freedom” also removes the concept of living in any state of being other than complete servitude. By vastly removing the complexities of language, The Party is able to simultaneously remove the complexities of human thought. As a result of the destruction of complex thought, Oceania’s citizens have become empty shells that can easily be filled with Big Brother’s propaganda. Another triumph of Orwell in writing 1984 is his creation of characters that are realistically morally ambiguous. When questioning Winston and Julia on what they would be willing to do to fight The Party, O’Brien asks, “If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face – are you prepared to do that” (Orwell 172). Without hesitation, Winston and Julia both reply “yes” to O'Brien's question. An act such as maiming a child is almost always viewed as horrid; however this creates a sense of moral ambiguity as The Party is considered the greater of evils throughout the entire novel. Later in the story, while Winston is in prison, a starving prisoner attempts to have a fellow

Towards the end of Orwell’s novel that presents a dystopian society, the antagonist, O’Brien, a close member of the inner party, warns Winston, the protagonist and one of only two reasonable people left, that “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them” (319). Winston, who has been taken prisoner for his political dissent, receives this grave warning tied down to a chair with O’Brien’s face staring at him from above. This alarming solution to the infamous mystery frightens Winston a significant amount, who after sacrificing so much, has just learned his fate. Orwell has brought about this fate to emphasize the perpetual triumph of the party over its enemies. In George Orwell's 1984, the author creates the totalitarian state of Oceania to warn the reader of the potential corruption and oppression of such a government.

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

Orwell successfully manipulates Winston physiologically through his use of technology and advancements in telescreens, control of history, and control of language. Within the society, Winston is among few who have memories of the past world. While Winston feels

When you see a solider in his or her uniform, you are proud that they are serving this country to protect our freedom, securing our country, and defending democracy worldwide. The solider can come from different branches of the Military. The one you might be familiar with is the U.S. Army. These soldiers are well respected and prepared to serve our country whenever and wherever needed, combat-ready at all times, and trained to counter any threat, anywhere. In 2007, the United States Army department published a recruitment ad for U.S.

In 1984, the ultimate form of betrayal is introduced when The Party causes Winston to betray his own mind and accept their views, and love Big Brother. It the beginning, Winston stresses the importance of keeping your own thoughts, in a world where other opinions and alternate accounts of past events are being forced upon the population. Winston points out that “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” and thoughts like this become important to the reader, who, as Winston does, believes that they are safe in his head as a facet of his character (Orwell 29). However, the torture in the Ministry of Love gets to Winston, and he begins to lose his individual opinions. O’Brien systematically removes all rebellious thoughts in Winston’s mind, replacing them with the ideology of The Party. In doing so, it is as if they are killing a character. When Winston is released he behaves like a new character altogether, he loses the battle with himself and betrays his original opinions against The Party. In using self-betrayal to show

In May of 1998, Kipland Kinkel brought a gun to his school. Over the course of two days this escalated from: being sent home, to murdering his father and mother, to murdering 2 students and wounding 26, earning a lifetime sentence of 111 years and 8 months in prison. In the court case being examined, the presiding judge addresses the original case, defendants ground for appeal, and the justification for the State’s decision to deny the appeal. Judge Haselton effectively uses ethos, logos, and pathos to support the Higher Court’s decision to deny the appeal because the original sentence was constitutional and just.

Famous philanthropist Stephen Hawking once stated, “We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.” In the world of George Orwell’s 1984, this shared human spirit is abused, neglected, and utterly destroyed. This is most apparent when O’Brien deconstructs the argument of Winston and, in turn, tears down his human spirit. While Winston clings to a persistent hope of the failure of The Party, O’Brien uses logos and pathos strategies to methodically tear apart this belief. This maniacal argument for The Party, the strong imagery involved in the interrogation, and the mental collapse of Winston produce one of the most thought-provoking, saddening, and terrifying scenes in 1984.

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.

The 13th amendment of 1865 made people consider the use of slavery as a legal form of punishment for criminals. The amendment raises concerns over if African Americans were ever actually free in the United States. Although it states that the institution of slavery is illegal, it also states that slave labor is legal if in the form of punishment for incarcerated criminals. In 13th, Ava DuVernay employs the use of ethos, logos, and pathos through a variety of ways. Through the use of these techniques, Ava DuVernay connects them with vivid imagery to really drive her point that the 13th amendment did not necessarily end slavery, it just added a loophole that enslavers were able to use.

When one thinks about the United States of America, images of our proud red, white, and blue flag, equal opportunity, and freedom should flit through the mind. When one thinks about American tragedy, devastating images of the September 11th attacks and the death of a beloved president should call tears to the eye. When one thinks about the tragic death of former president Ronald Reagan, both of the aforementioned actions occur; he was the embodiment of what America stands for and his death called many tears to the eyes of Americans all over. In her eulogy honoring Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher remembers her friend and urges his mourners to remember and honor him as the great man he proved himself to be. She uses strong examples of ethos

When Winson was about to be exposed to hisgreatest fear - rats - he tells O’brien to hurt Julia instead of hurting him. Was this not the womanthat he was head over heels for five pages ago? Due to the fact that Winston pulled a switcheroo,that makes this betrayal all the more terrible, but also shows just how much relationships makepeople who they are. Once Winston lost his individual relationships, he was completelysubmissive to Big Brother, doing whatever they wanted to. One of the points that Orwell wastrying to make by showing this was that without individual relationships, people can lose theiroverall identity.The point of Winston being brainwashed was so that he would quit rebelling against BigBrother and be just another number amongst the ranks of people. So in this sense, Winston didn’thave complete control over what he was saying or doing because when he betrayed Julia,O’brien had been trying to brainwash him for quite some time already. He did still betray Juliathough, telling O’brien that they should torture Julia instead. When Winston did this, he wentagainst what he and Julia had talked about earlier about how the only possible betrayal for eitherof them would be to stop

In 1984, O’Brien is leading a deception against Winston lasting for at least 7 years, as he states, and its main goal is to strip all forms of individuality and humanity from Winston. As Winston gains his ideas of revolution and breaking the chains of the party, O’Brien feeds into this and deceives him into thinking there are high ranking members of the party seeking to revolutionize. It is because of this that Winston is tricked into thinking it is possible to overthrow Big Brother. However in the last part of the book, O’Brien reveals himself as a member of the Thought Police, imprisoning

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

Please clarify. Additionally, O’Brien deceives Winston in the novel in order to aid him in his change of outlook about Big Brother. Evidently, in 1984, while most readers see O’Brien as just a villain, he is actually deceiving Winston in order to save him from the painful and turmoilous outcome of being a rebel.