Nineteen Eighty-Four

There is a problem with Winston’s frame of mind in the eyes of the Party, and Julia who is Winston’s girlfriend turns him into the Thought Police. A man named O’Brien who works with Winston is secretly the leader of the Thought Police. Winston is tortured and beaten, but not killed, the Party wants him to change and conform to their policies. “When you finally surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul,” (255). The Party tortures and tortures until you admit defeat and the Party has won again. O’Brien explains that everything about Goldstein and the Brotherhood was made by the Party to strike fear into the people to make

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

Yuliya Kizyma 1984 Essay In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, where the main character Winston Smith lives in Oceania which is a totalitarian state ruled by a party who physically and psychologically controls its citizens by using technology,

The party uses Two Minutes Hate to inspire hatred and fear towards Goldstein as opposed to themselves. To start, the two minutes hate uses the “mob mentality” to a assure everyone has the same mindset. This becomes really effective because a human has a need to be a part of something or to do what everyone else. We can see Winston follow the mob mentality as he says "The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in" (Orwell 16). This quote shows Winston’s mentality of not being able to be an individual and his mentality was to join what everyone else was doing. Winston was aware he was being manipulated but still decided to join the crowd.

For the duration of 1984, the Ministry of Truth is in preparation for Hate Week. This event is the Party’s tactic to intensify the animosity towards their opposition, whether it be Eurasia or Eastasia. During the Two Minutes Hate, the image of Emmanuel Goldstein, “the Enemy of the People,” is projected on the screen (Orwell 13). Although Winston is against the Party, he could not help but to join his colleagues in tormenting Goldstein’s picture. When Orwell writes, “[the] horrible thing about the Two Minute Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining,” he is illustrating the importance of expressing anger (Orwell 16). When individuals bottle up this feeling, it can lead to much more devastating consequences. The error with how the Party allows their members to expel their feelings of hate is that they always use the same picture. Therefore, they implant the thought that Goldstein is the enemy in the minds of the Party members. When Party members see Goldstein’s face whenever they express anger, they create a picture in their own minds that Goldstein is the enemy, even if they do not really believe it. In Winston’s case, even though he does not feel any hostility towards Goldstein, he did during the Two Minutes

1984 is a fictional novel written by one George Orwell. According to BBC history, “Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.” Nineteen eighty-four centers around a man named Winston Smith, a Party member, who works for the government erasing and rewriting history. The government (the Party) is focused around the character of ‘Big Brother’ the overseer. It has just about total control over its people, using telescreens to watch their every move and to spit pro-government propaganda at them twenty-four seven. Along with the telescreens, people called the thought police can also report people for not following the rules or committing a thought crime. The language is also modified, getting smaller every year so there are fewer and fewer ways to criticize the government and share information. Winston starts as a bit of a rebel and slowly ups the ante by having original thoughts, having sex, being in love, and meeting with the (perceived) rebel leader. His whole world crumbles when he gets caught with his lover and broken by the government. By the end of the book, he is a brainwashed member of society again. People speculate that Orwell wrote this as a warning, to make sure that people know that this could happen in lieu of Soviet Russia and

The Party is also able to destroy love outside of marriage such as that between Winston and Julia. Their relationship begins as hatred, blooms into a fulfilling love, and then is transformed into indifference. The entire progression of their feelings towards each other is manufactured by the Party. During their first unrecorded meeting, Winston offers a "love offering" (100) by telling Julia what his feelings were before they met: "I hated the sight of you... I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards" (101). The mask that Julia put on to fool the authorities into thinking that she was a good citizen also fooled Winston. As a result, he hated her for conforming so whole-heartedly like his wife did. But after he realizes that was just a facade that she put on to fool others, Winston falls completely in love with her. They take enormous risks to be together first in the countryside and then in an apartment rented from a prole. When the couple is questioned by O 'Brien before their acceptance into the Brotherhood, they quickly agree to commit a whole list of atrocities including to "throw sulfuric acid in a child 's face," to "commit murder," and even to "commit suicide" (142) if doing so would help destroy the Party

O’Brien has truly grasped Winston’s attention now and seems to truly be apart of the “Brotherhood”. Winston, with ecstatic behavior, begins to ask if it is real and not just an invention created by the Thought Police. O’Brien explains to him that it’s real and asks a series of questions seeing if Winston and Julia are willing to devote their lives to the Brotherhood. However, this quote reveals the duplicity behind O’Brien and how truly evil and corrupt the Party has become.

Orwell exploits the theme through Winston’s inner monologue about Goldstein during Two Minutes of Hate. One instance is “Winston’s diaphragm was constricted. He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotion” (Orwell 12.) Winston explains how he was taught to loathe Goldstein. Winston grew up before the Party was in power, but the Party has managed to persuade Winston to instinctually fear and hate Goldstein. Additionally, Orwell continues to display the Party’s power through Winston by describing Goldstein’s speech as “so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken by it” (Orwell 12.) Winston initially describes how the Party has misled him to believe to hate Goldstein. Later, Winston continues to describe how everyone else sees Goldstein. Some people use him to express

Bethany Rubaker April 30, 2013 Ms. Schulte Honors English 10, Period 8 Totalitarianism Takes Control Imagine living in a world where politics are everything and all forms of individuality and personal identities are shattered. A world where everybody is stripped of their rights to talk, act, think, or even form their own opinions, simply because they do not agree with the government’s beliefs. These aspects are just a few of the examples of things dictators would have control over in a totalitarianism form of government. Aggressive leaders such as Hitler and Joseph Stalin are examples of such dictators. They used their power for terror and murder, and their motive is simply to maximize their own personal power. George Orwell had

As Winston Smith reflects, “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.” (Orwell, 16) The Two Minutes Hate takes the rage that persons may feel toward the lack of control over their own lives away from the Party and turns it against claimed enemies of the Party. Because Big Brother is declared to be kind and good, any enemy is automatically evil and bad. There are also spies to keep the citizens as ignorant as the prisoners in Plato’s cave. The Thought Police keep people afraid, discouraging independent thinking; even children spy on their parents. The children, Orwell writes in 1984, "were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family has become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately" (Orwell, 133). No relationship should be more important than loyalty to Big brother. Moreover, the last thing that controls the people is the telescreen. The telescreen not only watches citizens, but also tells the Party’s lies that change history. But, like prisoners in the cave, the citizens have no other reality to compare it

When Winston confides his trust in Inner Party member O’Brien, he confesses to being “thought-criminals” who “disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc”, perceiving O’Brien to be in the counterrevolutionary group known as the Brotherhood (Orwell 170). Afterwards, Winston reveres him, unaware that O’Brien is a loyal party member who influenced Winston’s life over the course of 7 years. When Winston is arrested by the Thought Police, O’Brien becomes Winston’s torturer, abandoning the disguise of being Winston’s friend and a rebel. Therefore, the Party quells resistance through isolation in a society where all others are utterly loyal to the

Goldstein is the “enemy of people”. This is called the “two minutes of hate”. Winston secretly rebels against the Party by having a diary and by having secret meeting with Julia, a young lady who also works in the Ministry of Truth building for the Junior Anti-Sex League. During one of Winston and Julia’s meetings in the Golden Country, Winston says, “I have purity. I hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones”(Orwell 127). One might argue that the rules of sexual relations and marriage the Party holds its members related to purity, virtue and goodness, but this relation is in the actions only, not on the emotion behind them. “Have you done this before? Of course. Hundreds of times-well, scores of times, anyway.” (Orwell 131). To achieve this goal of eventually defeating the Party, both Winston and Julia agree that they are willing “to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate

George Orwell Heroes Journey Rough Draft Eric Blair was born on June 25, 1903 in British-ruled India. He was not poor, but could not be considered rich either. Though his lineage traced back to wealthy landlords, Blair’s family wealth had been lost down the generations, and their source of income came from the sale of opium. He wrote that his family was “lower-upper-middle-class.” At just the age of eight Blair was sent to boarding school, of which he does not recall any fond memories. During school, he began to wet the bed, and this was regarded as a sinful act. Though he could not control it, he was punished and beaten for his involuntary crime. He notes feeling that he was “in a world where it was not possible for me to be good” (Orwell). This experience gave rise to a rebellious nature within him. Afterwards Blair was educated at Eton college, which was one of the most prestigious and expensive schools in England. Here he was remembered by his peers and professors as being very argumentative and freethinking. Though most of his

Research Paper Imagine being under surveillance every day and every second of the day. A stranger always knowing where you are and what you are doing at all times. It is really terrifying to know someone is ALWAYS watching, yet many people brush off this fact. We live in America “the land of freedom” but are we really free? Today is the future, and we have advanced in technology, all the way from robots automatically mopping your floor to having a personal assistant that assists your every need or question you have right on your phone, but is that all they do? Or do they do more than we know? Technology today is marketed as if we need it, but in reality, they’re sold to us in order to violate our privacy and help the government spy on us.