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Manipulation Of Winston In George Orwell's '1984'

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In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, Winston is a creation of the Party as they know what he is thinking and control his every move by manipulating his environment. Winston is a fabricated rebel used to test the Party’s true power and strength; a simulated virus that must be destroyed by their defenses to ensure their victory over the people. The Party must be ready for any attack against their authority and Winston was the perfect invention. The Party plays games with Winston to instill the idea of being human in him. As they use him for training their members to purge their world of any insurgents, they also influence him for their own amusement. O’Brien tells him, “Do not imagine saving yourself Winston, however completely you surrender to us”(256) to …show more content…

He remembers stories written by the Party. He remembers “a candle-lit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice box and laughing excitedly. His mother was sitting opposite him and also laughing...For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood”(295). Winston learned from the Party, however, and quickly “pushed the picture out of his mind. It was a false memory. He was troubled by false memories occasionally”(296). Besides using memories to inculcate a sense of being human, the Party creates memories in Winston to train its members. “Do you remember…”(284) O’Brien asks Winston, “the moment of panic that used to occur in your dreams? There was a wall of blackness in front of you, and a roaring sound in your ears. There was something terrible on the other side of the wall”(284). “The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world”(283). For Winston, “the worst thing in the world happens to be rats”(283) and this is what is used to mimic the worst thing in the world for real thought criminals. These memories are what would be used to force them into

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In this section, Winston’s entire out look and thought process changes extremely quickly and determinedly. Once he starts to interact with this girl who he seems to keep bumping into to, the whole course of Winston’s outwardly obedient but internally disobedient behavior becomes much more actively counter regime than it ever had before. This drastic change begins even in his first interaction with the mysterious girl who falls in front of him in the hallway at their office, “A curious emotion stirred in Winston’s heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her” (107-108).

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He is not the person he was before and he has succumbed to the threats of Big Brother. He says “two and two make five” and he believes it to be true, just as the government wants. He is troubled with false memories and does not know what is true and what is told to be true by Big Brother. The party had the ability to “frighten you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses, (1,7)” and this is just what they did to Winston. Now, he has been trained to only think thoughts that align with the party’s goals, so he loses his sense of rebellion and individuality.

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It never existed.” This shows the power of doublethink and how it can change the past. By O'Brien getting Winston to truly forget the picture, and forget that he had forgotten, he is able to change the past. This is a critical point to the novel's theme considering O'Brien represents the whole party. He shows the reader the inner parts of The Party and reveals all of its contradictions and

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Winston was never a devoted follower, constantly questioning the world around him. Even when in custody, Winston continued questioning motives and denouncing the Party and Big Brother, despite the futility. He knew no societal changes would result from his actions, but desperately wanted to share his ideas with someone, and since he was already being tortured, he was capable of speaking freely in the jail area. The purpose was to rid him of his rebellious mindset, and to do so, O’Brien needed to know everything Winston honestly thought in order to ‘correct’ it fully. For example, O’Brien forced Winston to recognize that whatever the Party said was true by holding up four fingers and saying there were five, “But there had been a moment- of luminous certainty, where each new suggestion of O’Brien’s had filled up a patch of emptiness and had become absolute truth, and when two and two could have been three as easily five, if that were what was needed (Orwell 258).

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