The Party Will Forever Live On In The Future Analysis

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.

Through his failure, Orwell portrays the dangers of a disunited society for the individual. Even though Winston willingly chose to oppose the Party and offered his life towards the eradication of his oppressors, his sacrifice proved futile without communal support to usurp the tyrannical regime. Despite the common suffering the people endured, their fear of the individual torment each would suffer motivated them to submit to the government. In Winston, Orwell highlights the frailty of an individual person in comparison to a mob. When imprisoned at the Ministry of Love, Winston’s will crumbled under torture and he even offered the life of the one individual he had earlier seemed hesitant to sacrifice, Julia. Hence, Orwell illustrates the need for a united social front for individuals to change the society in which they live in. Otherwise, self-preservation shall remain dominant within each individual, leaving them vulnerable to continuous manipulation through propaganda.

The insidious manifestation and nature of the Party’s power culminates through their manipulation of all aspects of life. History becomes a palimpsest wherein anything can be altered so as to favor the doctrines of the party. Language is slowly becoming eradicated and “ It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words”. This illustrates that the party wishes to create orthodoxy wherein independent and singular thought which repudiate any vestiges of humanity and digress from the principles of the party are blatantly impossible. Winston is of the belief that

George Orwell succeeded in creating a story that gives a very bleak and possible future. Since the future is unknown, there are a near infinite possibilities for stories, each as possible as the next. 1984 offers a different kind of look into the future. The majority of books that depict the future show a hopeful version of the future. Even other dystopian stories give the characters hope in some way shape or form. 1984 depicts a future with no hope and any hope that is given is immediately taken away. “’If you are a man Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent.’” (Orwell 270). O’Brien’s words in this passage take any hope from Winston that men might prevail over the Party. This bleak portrayal is Orwell’s way of warning that the only way to stop this future is to prevent it before it happens. For once this future comes to be, there is no stopping it.

In the excerpt, Orwell uses the rhetorical device of repetition in order to create suspense. For example, right before the rats are going to attack, Winston says, “‘Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’” The repetitive screams for help from Winston reveals the tone as he is frantically begging for mercy. Another example of repetition is used is when Orwell writes, “To think, to think, even with a split second left--to think was the only hope” This reveals the tone as it reveals Winston only has a split second to save himself from the rats, and he must be able to think fast in order to do it.

Winston goes through emotional change throughout 1984 that changes his perspective and personality. At the beginning of the book, Winston is filled with hatred towards the Party. “They’ll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother-” (Orwell, 19). Winston’s fury towards the Party and Big Brother is evident. Through his diary entries, you can definitely tell that he harbors an intense anger towards them. So, it may seem that this trait will never change and make him always fight for it. The reader may at first think that he will never change views. But then, Winston completely changes perspective at the end of the book when he states, “He loved Big Brother.” (Orwell, 298). This keeps Winston from becoming another boring character who refuses to change his opinion which makes for an interesting book and a more complex character.

Jacobs made a strong argument about the body representation made by Orwell in his book, especially in the character of Winston. This seemed to be attributed to the fact that Orwell was dying when he wrote the book, so the story included his “personal failings” (Jacobs 14). Since Winston’s resistance did not win in the end, and he was overcome by Big Brother, the book seems to tell that resistance is doomed. This is especially true in the last two sentences in Orwell’s book in which he wrote, “He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (376). Referring to Winston’s loving of Big Brother as victory over himself was like Orwell telling the readers that minds can be broken under torture, and that this pain could make the mind think of betraying loved ones. When Winston was tortured with his greatest fear, the rats, he said, “Do it to Julia! Not me! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones” (Orwell 362).

Orwell values freedom of thought most in society. Of all the terrible crimes committed by the party and Big Brother against the population, the culmination of the ultimate revolution is the idea of complete control over the physical and mental states of citizens. The repetition of the phrase “2 + 2 = 4, not 5” shows Orwell’s belief that the truth is inherent and no one should be allowed to control an individual’s thoughts on this truth. Orwell uses Winston as the first person narrator because so much of his journey is internal, showing the power of freedom

Significance: This quote is very important because Winston’s hopes and dreams are being crushed by O’Brien. Furthermore, O’Brien is exerting his force upon him and his main objective is to make Winston feel inferior to the point of no hope. O’Brien is further proving that whoever challenges Big Brother will be made to look like they are nothing. Lastly, the theme of loneliness is being revisited whish first appeared in the first part of the book before he met Julia.

The text state’s “You will understand well enough how the Party maintains itself in power. Now tell me why we cling to power. What is our motive? Why should we want power? Go on, speak,’ he added as Winston remained silent...’You are ruling over us for our own good,’ he said feebly. ‘You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore─’ He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body. O’Brien had pushed the lever of the dial up to thirty-five. ‘That was stupid, Winston, stupid!’ he said. ‘You should know better than to say a thing like that’…’Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power…Now do you begin to understand me?’(Orwell, 262-263). This embodies the fact that Winston still disobeys the Party and what they stand for. The text states “He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the tight. It must be so: how could the immortal, collective brain be mistake? By what external standard could you check its judgments? Sanity was statistical…He wrote first in large clumsy capitals: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. Then almost without a pause he wrote beneath it: TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE…His mind, as thought shying away from something, seemed unable to concentrate. He

“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” In the story, 1984 by George Orwell, the Party places this slogan everywhere to make sure they have the power over everyone the people. Although the Party’s ideas seem to contradict one another, their ideas do make sense in a way. If there is war between two countries and they are fighting one another, then their will be no fighting within the country. Everyone has one common enemy which makes them all on the same side. Also, if people are ignorant with no knowledge of anything except what the Party tells them, then they will not question the

Explanation of how the quote proves the topic: In this quote, it talks about how the Party has complete political power in the present. it proves that how Winston

Additionally, the portrayal of this dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian government might have been understood well by contemporary audiences, mirroring the rules of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy- the citizens have no influence on the government and have no freedom of choosing the rules that govern and control every part of their lives. Therefore, Winston blames the misery in his life totally and completely on the government and on Big Brother. In Winston’s case, we can see that the propaganda, deprivation, and strict rules fail to make him concur with the party and accept Big Brother- in this situation, the party has to use extreme force and torture to make Winston love the party as well as Big Brother, in order for the party to maintain complete power.

Within passage one, it seems as if life is not worth the trouble, that every day life is being lived in conditions which lower ones happiness. Winston during this time was a man who despised the party, he was aware of his inevitable death, which was sure to come the moment he partook in “thoughtcrime”. Within the passage, “Nobody ever escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess.” serves an important part to Winston’s character. He is aware of the fact that any sort of crime will resort in him being caught, and possible death or torture. This is implicit communication, because it is not his own actions that we are observing, but simply fact, that was set down by the author of 1984.

This quote, from George Orwell’s 1984, indirectly addresses the mindset of the main character, Winston Smith. Smith’s dystopian society is told that all was well in their society and they should be content and grateful with the very little they possess. Smith, slightly remembering things like family and true friendship, from before the rise of their current government, understands that these values are no longer extremely pertinent in his society. Along with these typical values that seemed to disappear in the society, tragedy appeared to banish as well. Yet tragedy, unlike the more positive values still was a pertinent happening in his society but, it was cloaked as something else by the government for years. Behind the scenes war,