O’Brien, an agent of the Thought Police, forces Winston to
O’Brien tells Winston he will never know if the Brotherhood exists. Chapter 3, there are three stages to reintegration. Learning, understanding, & acceptance. O’Brien collaborated in writing Goldstein’s book. O’Brien says the party cannot be overthrown, its forever.
We see the whole story through Winston’s eyes. 10. Obrien- A mysterious, powerful, and sophisticated member of the Inner Party. Winston believes he is also a member of the Brotherhood.
In the end, Winston and Julia are caught by
Winston is forced to undergo tortuous procedures and brainwashing. While incarcerated, Winston has terrible nightmares about rats, in which O’Brien uses to his advantage. Winston is forced to have a cage of rats strapped to his head and eventually these rats eat Winston’s face. After receiving such tremendous amounts of torture, Winston pleads with O’Brien to torture Julia instead of himself. This utter lack of hope and feeling of helplessness is what O’Brien desired from Winston the entire time.
Manipulation and Control in George Orwell’s 1984 Pele once said, “If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them”. In 1984, written by George Orwell, this quote relates directly to O’Brien, the main antagonist, and how he treats the people in Oceania. O’Brien might even be Big Brother featured on the giant propaganda posters and signs throughout Oceania that keep the people living in fear. All of the people live in terror with an unspoken threat that keeps them all under the control of O’Brien.
The brotherhood was an establishment for the narrator to have a safe place, for free speech, but despite all the good that came with the Brotherhood, a lot of evil came with it too. The Brotherhood not only left Harlem for their own benefit, but also tricked the Narrator in numerous ways. In 1984, Winston was deceived by O’Brien. O’Brien convinced him that he could take Winston under his wing, and acted as though that he was able to help Winston in his endeavours. Both main characters thought that the either the brotherhood or O’brien were safe places that they can go to to get help with overcoming the situation that they are currently in.
Big brother is synonymous with lack of freedom, while O’Brien in the beginning represented a hope for freedom. Both of the aforementioned further stripped Winston of his freedom and humanity by initiating fear. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (Orwell 81).
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.
Elections and politics currently believed by many to be focused on spoiler effects, polling, and electability. Some sour victims of these elections have come up with what they believe is a “solution” to politics. This “solution” is known as RCV. Ranked choice voting, or RCV, is a system in which people can choose their first, second, and third choice candidates, and votes will be given accordingly. Regardless of what representatives of RCV may tell you, RCV is unconstitutional, costly, and very time-consuming, which is why allowing voters to rank their choices for elections should not be allowed.
Charrington, a store owner, and O’Brien are friends with Winston, but they are not the friendly people Winston thinks they are. At first, Winston is clueless about who Mr. Charrington is because he seems to be just a standard citizen. Winston finally realized who Mr. Charrington was when he “was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police,” and that member turned out to be Mr. Charrington. Furthermore, O’Brien is disguised as someone who questions the government, just like Winston. It is not until O’Brien allows the guard to hurt Winston that he realizes that O’Brien is one of “them [Thought Police].”
(136). Furthermore, knowing Julia as a witty and intricate human, Winston puts trust into her, only for it to result in treachery. Julia was the last straw between Winston and complete isolation. After Julia, O’Brien was able to remove his emotions and turn him into a ghost of a man, isolating him completely from any and all forms of pleasure he could have hoped to achieve. Winston yelps, "Do it to Julia!
O’Brien speaks in a kind and encouraging way; his words are encouraging in that he is pushing Winston to realize the how the Party has utter control over history and society itself. O’Brien explains that “[The Party controls] life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us” (Orwell 269). In reality, Winston is actually being unreasonable by not accepting that the Party has total control. O’Brien reveals his true identity as a friend by pushing Winston to accept this total control, justifying Winston’s torture to see five of O’Brien’s fingers instead of
The decisions we make have the ability to impact our future/life paths and unwise decisions can result in major consequences. The novel 1984 by George Orwell and the short story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien equally represent the fact that when we make decisions, they largely impact what lies ahead in the future. Orwell and O’Brien both investigate and answer the essential question in their stories through such things as the theme, characters, plot, etc. The characters in these stories both make major decisions throughout the plot which, in result, alters the outcome of their futures. In George Orwell’s 1984, the main characters, Winston and Julia, begin to rebel against the government and the enforced rules.
After a cautiously planned meeting initiated by Julia, they started to see each other more often in secret. Over time, a romantic relationship started to develop, not solely based on physical and sexual attraction, but also as a result of their similar views centered around their hatred of the Party. Although both characters complement each other in terms of their views of Big Brother as Party members, their values and approaches to this issue fundamentally conflict in terms of morality and ethics, history, and politics. With regards to morality and ethics, Winston and Julia’s judgment and beliefs greatly differ. Winston, characterized as an idealist, deeply suffers from the existent totalitarian authorities and their full control of everything.
