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Examples Of Reintegration In 1984

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In the novel 1984, George Orwell applies the three steps of reintegration to the readers understanding, while comparing his philosophical worldview to Winston and Julia’s. Orwells ultimate message to the readers is to understand the dangers of totalitarianism, and how the government has complete control over its citizens. Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. This concept is shown throughout 1984, when the inner party is constantly controlling and watching over its citizens as well as limiting them from things such as privacy, sexual activity, and family interaction. The citizens receive lack of privacy …show more content…

The three stages are learning, understanding, and acceptance. The first stage used mental and physical torture to confuse Winston, and make him believe that everything the inner party says is correct. Orwell writes, War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” (16). These slogans are first introduced in the beginning of the novel and give the reader’s an idea of what “doublethink” is. The inner party forces the citizens to live in a constant state of fear and force them to do anything that they say. The second stage of reintegration is understanding. In this stage O'brien explains to Winston the purpose of the party. O’brien states, “The party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power,” (263). In this stage the reader understands that the party’s sole intention is to have complete control over its citizens. The last step of reintegration is accepting. In this stage, Winston accept O’briens teachings, even though in his mind he still disagrees. During this stage, O’brien recognizes that there is one last strength, which is Winston has not betrayed Julia. O’brien tortures Winston with rats, which then forces him to betray Julia by saving himself instead of her. 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!” (286). In this stage, the reader accepts that the party has complete control, and the citizens should not betray a totalitarian government because of the

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O’brien enters the cell. Winston thinks that O’brien has been captured too, but soon learns that O’brien is a member of the party. Winston is tortured in all kinds of ways. He is kicked, beaten, forced to tears, and a man in a white coat connects him to a dial that has levels of pain. Winston is tortured until he is humiliated and his power to argue or reason is destroyed.

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During the second stage of reintegration, which is geared towards understanding, O’Brien employs the usage of a metaphor to make Winston understand that his resistance against the Party is futile, for “the individual is only a cell”. By equating the citizens of Oceania to the cells of a body, O’Brien causes Winston (and the readers) to see the disconcerting similarity that exists between them: both only exist to do their job in sustaining the body before dying off. And for Oceanians, the Party is the body in which they reside. With this metaphor, readers are able to understand why the citizens must conform to uniform expectations because, when individuality and dissent begin to emerge, it threatens the survival of the Party – it weakens the

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Both Julia and Winston in their meeting with O’Brien, who they thought was on their side, agreed to do whatever it takes, even if it involves the killing or harming of innocent people. Though both Julia and Winston eventually got caught and were tortured to the point of betraying one another, they could hold on to their earlier discussion that upon capture they would knowingly betray each other to save themselves but the love they had would be

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In this situation, Winston is considering the Party’s exploitation of its fearful subjects as a means to suppress the intellectual notion of objective reality. As Winston said “For, after all, how do we know that two and

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When Winston is taken by the thought police we get an insight on how the party truly works. They are men and women who are seeking power can be shown in the quote “The party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the goods of other; we are only interested solely in power.”. This quote shows how the party does not care for the people but as long as they are in control then it does not matter. To gain power in this world is not hard, it is shown as an endless cycle of the middle becoming high and doing the same thing the high class before them did.

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Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!." (236) O'Brien realizes that his defeat of Winston is utterly devastating and complete.

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Winston is like glass because he can be broken down and restructured into a different person. When Winston is held captive in the Ministry of Love, he thinks that “the Party was in the right. It must be so: how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken... It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought” (277). Orwell uses the metaphor of the Party as an immortal entity with one “collective brain” to describe the effects of brainwashing on Winston, who now wants to truly feel the emotions that a standard follower of Big Brother experiences.

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Throughout history governments have evolved in their laws and ruling tactics. It has also changed the way literature has been portrayed to the readers. This essay is based on Totalitarian government. Totalitarianism is a form of government that whereabouts the fact that the ruler and government is an absolute control over the state. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are some of the dictators that had total control over the people and state.

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Winston although laudably trying to defend his beliefs in the Ministry of Love cannot withstand the brutal physical and psychological tactics used by O’Brien eventually this proves too much for Winston who wrote on his piece of slate: “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. Then almost without a pause he wrote beneath it: TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE” (277). Winston shows that his original views in which he refused to give into the Party and relinquish his ideals by obeying ridiculous commands such as two and two making five are failing him and unable to withstand the Party. Winston’s beliefs although strong, even among those with similar views, are succumbing to the oppressive tactics of the Party as “without a pause” he continued writing what were hypocrisies to him just a short while before. Similarly, Winston’s capitulation was shown when he was being executed: “Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose.

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In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, he uses truth and reality as a theme throughout the novel to demonstrate the acts of betrayal and loyalty through the characters of Winston and Julia. Orwell expresses these themes through the Party, who controls and brainwashes the citizens of Oceania. The party is able to control its citizens through “Big Brother,” a fictional character who is the leader of Oceania. Big Brother is used to brainwash the citizens into whatever he says. Orwell uses truth and reality in this book to reflect on what has happened in the real world such as the Holocaust and slavery.

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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.”

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There are three stages that Winston must complete in his reintegration, learning, understanding and accepting. Winston has just entered the understanding phase, the second phase of his process. Winston has slowly been conforming to Oceania’s standards, as Winston has been going full sessions without having O’Brien using the dial. O’Brien begins to teach Winston the ‘how’ and the ‘why’, more specifically, how the party maintains itself in power and why the party clings to power. Winston could not grasp the concept of the party, and as a result O’Brien uses the dial.

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Living through the first half of the twentieth century, George Orwell watched the rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union. Fighting in Spain, he witnessed the brutalities of the fascists and Stalinists first hand. His experiences awakened him to the evils of a totalitarian government. In his novel 1984, Orwell paints a dark and pessimistic vision of the future where society is completely controlled by a totalitarian government. He uses symbolism and the character’s developments to show the nature of total power in a government and the extremes it will go through to retain that power by repressing individual freedom and the truth.

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They always conform by directing their contempt towards enemies of the Party and fear those conspiring against it. Through the threat of rebellion and sabotage, citizens are kept in fear and have their hate directed at the Party’s enemies and are manipulated to rely on it for protection. Winston, however, fears the Party and its total control on his life and on society. He secretly harbors dreams of a revolution and the destruction of the Party. His failure to be manipulated is later rectified through other tactics until he becomes a “perfect” member of society, relying on and loving the Party.

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