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This is another connection to the ideology found in “1984”. It is the concept that Winston happens upon while reading the manifesto of the Brotherhood; “…the key lies in the proles.” This is the response the Winston finds after reading the book, and it is an answer that he believes unequivocally. However, Winston also considers that there is a strong unlikeliness of the proles ever rebelling, (potentially due to the instilling of “doublethink”). The proles are distracted by the everyday struggle to survive; they can never be bothered or take the necessary time to organize.
Up until he is tortured into loving “Big Brother,” the sacrifices Winston made were all in the name of attacking “Big Brother” and him seeking freedom of thought. The risks he took, that ultimately wound him broken in the ministry of love, all were in the name of what he truly loved and cared for. In the end, the power of an “all-powerful” government was made apparent when everything Winston loved, including Julia, were sacrificed by Winston. The torture and the mental strain Winston was subjected to broke him as he devoted all of his love toward “Big Brother” and nothing else. George Orwell use of sacrifice as a tool to convey love and what character cared about not only showed the power of free-thinking but also the dangers of a totalitarian government like “Big Brother.”
Imagine in a world of “perfection”, very structural, everything stuck in the right, and perfected place, destined to the certainty of life, to be ruled by somewhat a dictator, yet as lost as the average man of the world, welcome to dystopia. Totalitarianism, a type of government with maximum power, a system found in George Orwell's book 1984, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron” establish a more complex way in persuading their people in undergoing a sort of “trance” within a dystopian society, a place made “equal”. How? Dystopian societies use the entire rhetorical triangle to maintain control of all people. Demonstrated in 1984 with O’Brien’s intelligence (Logos), character, (Ethos “friendship”) and outcomes (Pathos “threats”)
In George Orwell’s novel 1984, protagonist Winston Smith struggles to maintain his individuality, beliefs, and values while being under the totalitarian government control. As a citizen, Winston secretly rebels against the ruling Party. Although he attempts to challenge the power of the Party, Winston encounters many characters that drive him to his demise, such as Charrington, O’Brien, and Julia. In addition, his own decisions lead him to a labyrinth of problems. Eventually, the Party accomplishes its goal: to brainwash Winston and all other citizens.
In 1984 Winston transition into being completely against the party a rebel into a reformed party member by force Winston essentially fights to keep his sanity and respect for himself as the party tries to torture him until he breaks. In chapter 3 Winston’s first stage it represented a number of breaking and general degradation essentially of his character. Winston Is accused of crimes from sexual perversion to spying. It is this to humiliate Winston destroy him from the inside out.
At the beginning of the novel, Winston made it prominent that he dissented Big Brother and his party’s idea. He wrote in his diary, in Book 1 Chapter 1, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER…” (Orwell 18). This shows that Winston dissented his country’s government and was willing to rebel for he knew deep inside that
Throughout the novel, Winston constantly references the fact that ‘Today there were fear, hatred and pain’ and that in this society of Ingsoc ‘No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred’ and this is displayed in many, various ways. An example of this is when Winston writes about when he went to see a film stating that the ‘Audience were much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him’ and that ‘there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air…and there was a lot of applause from the party seats’. This displays the extent to which
Orwell suggests that while people have principles that they believe they will die for, in reality, physical pain can break any man. The last breaking point for Winston is in Room 101, where he is confronted with his worst fear: rats. As O’Brien is about to let the rats bite Winston’s face, he finally betrays Julia, the woman he loved, out of fear. The Party eventually breaks Winston using physical and psychological torture, and he goes to the Chestnut Tree Cafe, where he says, “He had won the victory over himself.” At this point, he no longer feels manipulated by the Party, and instead feels that he has manipulated himself.
Corrupted Cites, Poisonous Power, and Tortuous Times In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party and the all-seeing Big Brother are notorious for heavily monitoring the general populace and using unorthodox methods of manipulation, fear and torture to maintain control. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party, is privy to the ways of Big Brother and the technique used to control the past, and he rebels in many more ways than one. In the end, he comes to know the true meaning of torture and learns that paranoia and corruption are the harsh results of poisonous power. By Chapter Four of Book 1, Winston is knee deep in a relationship that would not be approved of by his superiors.
Winston’s diary is a symbol of his suppressed desire for rebellion, his entries as well only speak of his furry and his pain; emotions he is not allowed to express or act upon. For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i do not care theyll 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 — on freedom of thought and freedom of opinion (Orwell, 1984 21). Winston’s ideas are fragmented as he brings to his journal his stream of consciousness.
THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF GOD The author of Hebrews wrote, “…without faith it is impossible to please [God]… for he who comes to God must believe that He is…” Ergo, belief in God, would be an essential of Christianity.
The main character in this story is Winston Smith who in constantly living in fear of what The Party will do to him if he is caught saying something negative about them or about Big Brother, who is the leader of The Party. An example of Winston being controlled by fear is when Julia, a woman who was following him, sent him a letter saying that she loved him. “drew the next batch of work toward him, with the scrap of paper on top of it. He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I love you.”
In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell, one of the three slogans of the INGSOC party was "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.” The English Socialist Party of Oceania wants complete control over all of the citizens and most importantly, their minds. On my poster, I have included three symbols below the slogan representing each phrase. “War is peace” and “freedom is slavery” connects perfectly with the concept of doublethink. Regardless of both of the phrases being contradictory in meaning, they are both considered to be the same in the minds of the Oceania citizens.
In the 1984 novel, George Orwell shows how accurate the CIA torture reports uses similar torture techniques in the novel to our society today. In the novel George Orwell shows how effectively the tortures are from the novel has a big critique to our society. The 1984 novel might give predictions on how the CIA could be about. The novel is fiction but leaves us curiously and prediction about our society.
During a daily exercise known as the Two Minutes Hate, all Party members view a video usually featuring a speech denouncing the Party’s ideals and advocating for freedom and democracy. Even though Winston secretly supports these principles, he feels compelled to and even cannot avoid joining the frenzy of the Hate, entering a blind but abstract rage. He mentions that, “And yet that rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police….(Orwell 14). This is how Winston’s fear differs from that of other people’s.
