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The Washington Post's 1984, Against Big Brother, The Party

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In the book, 1984, and in the recent article by The Washington Post titled, Kenyan opposition leader urges followers to skip work Monday, the common theme of rebellion is shared as individuals strive to rebel against corrupt forms of government. In 1984, Winston strived to live in a society free from Big Brother’s rule. He was intrigued by freedom and having the ability to do whatever he wanted. Winston’s hatred for Big Brother can be described through a his thoughts through a quote in chapter one of part one, “And yet the 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 turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, …show more content…

Many Kenyans vote along ethnic lines which gives rise to many unfair elections. In the recent election, it was claimed by many individuals, including opposition leader, Raila Odinga, that the government had rigged the elections. Writers, Ben Curtis and Christopher Torchia quote, “Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga urged his supporters to skip work on Monday to protest what he charged were rigged elections that gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The government denounced violent demonstrations as unlawful and urged Kenyans to return to their jobs… ‘There is no work until Tuesday, when we will announce the next step,’ said Odinga, who previously claimed that last week’s vote was rigged and has unsuccessfully run for president on three previous occasions. Kenya’s election commission said its process was fair, and international observers praised its handling of the election in this country of 45 million

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To begin the novel, George Orwell expresses his main character's distaste of the people around him. It is narrated that, “Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police” (Orwell 15). Orwell's choice to write about Winston's disdain for the party foreshadows Winston's character because of how his hatred was turned against the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police. It also means that he is already committing a Thought-Crime due to his opposing ideas which predicts that he will do additional Thought-Crime against the Party. In addition, Orwell chooses to write about Winston’s feelings towards the propaganda spread by the Party.

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The novel 1984 by George Orwell, focuses on the physical and mental torture of Winston Smith as he goes through the Party’s corrupt ways of mind control. Throughout the chapters of Part Three, Orwell showcases the aftermath of Winston and Julia’s affair in the hotel. This included Winston being tortured into accepting the Party and loving Big Brother: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,” (204) While Winston is still being tortured, O’Brien is making him repeat these words so that he will soon accept the Party. However, Winston is very stubborn and doesn’t want to believe this. Winston still has the mindset of rebelling before he was caught by the Thought Police.

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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

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Throughout the book, Winston becomes more outspoken about his hatred for Big Brother, as seen when Orwell writes, "And yet the 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 turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police…" (Orwell 19 PDF). Similarly, Americans grew more angry with Britain as they continued to add relentless acts. This dissatisfaction lit the fire under the colonists in their fight for freedom: “These taxes, enacted without assent from the colonies, galvanized opposition to the British and led to colonial resistance" (Goldberg).

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The author of the novel 1984, George Orwell and the director of V for Vendetta, James McTeigue use allusions to identify their different behaviors and approach to their cause, liberation from the totalitarian government. In 1984, Winston stands up to BIG BROTHER peacefully to fight for the freedom of the people in Oceania. O’Brien mentions that Brotherhood is an organization, which goes against BIG BROTHER, and he states, “We want to join [the Brotherhood] and work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc.

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Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s 1984, is an inquisitive, intuitive, and romantic man. As the novel commences, Winston begins to question many aspects of his life and the way of life that Big Brother has set up. After reading Goldstein’s book, many of Winston’s questions were answered, however, Winston is still left wanting more: “He had still, here reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood how; he did not understand why.” (217) Winston’s constant quest for knowledge and insight into the society that he is trapped highlights his inquisitive actions.

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In the book, George Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith, a man living under the watch of the government, otherwise known as Big Brother. Throughout the book Winston Smith, comes to find that Big Brother is in control of every thought that anyone ever makes, through the exploitation of

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>>4793039 I was thinking more like a picture of. Fang or Coco meeting. In secret, or something along the lines of Scene II of Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet is on a balcony, both her and Romeo speak of giving up their allegiance to their families to be together. i Like your second idea of the dance too, but your first idea isn't relly as fitting as a cover for a sequel in my opinion. Since this is a sequel we are talking about, we alredy have an idea as to what we could expect to see, so

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Winston didn’t conform, they broke him down and beat him to a point he was a shell of a man. He went from hatred toward big brother to a conformed zombie who, “won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (PG 298

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The main character, Winston, is an example that emotional fear and anger caused him to pursue his gut feeling, and leave his reasoning behind to follow Big Brother. The party than used his and other citizens fear to create a false enemy in their eyes, “power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”(). In todays society fear is used as our top motivation and controls the human brain very easily to make us do irrational things,like in the novel Obrien uses Winston’s fear to corrupt his humanity into believing that the party’s way is the only way. The people in charge of running the society know exactly how to make the citizens react through manipulation of the media and radio stations. A big issue ,in the world today, related to this kind of manipulation is terms and how the government wants all the americans to react.

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George Orwell’s, 1984, is your typical novel about a dystopian world masquerading as a utopian society. In this novel, the main focus is about Big Brother, the government, always watching the citizens of Oceania. The citizens fear Big Brother, because any wrong step will get them killed. Winston, the protagonist of the novel, lost all previous fear because he knows they are already after him. Due to this, my prediction is that Winston will lead a rebellion against Big Brother.

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The proposal of Big Brother is to strip away the human qualities, such as emotion, so that everyone is alike and easier to control. To contrast, Winston is able to tell the difference and able to detect the false ideas of tyranny and disobeys the rules. His first rebellion was writing his thoughts

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The Party’s approach to life has not always been for everyone, including Winston who frequently gets angry at their actions. In the beginning of the book, Winston says he was writing, “as though by automatic action… DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (1.1.18). His thoughts and actions toward Big Brother and the Party have become so strong that he is involuntarily writing words against them. Winston also resents the rule that there can be no love in Oceania, and leaps at the chance to break it.

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The book 1984 describes a totalitarian society where citizens are forced to renounce all liberties for the sake of social order. They are guided by the rule of a single figurehead called Big Brother, whom the they are manipulated to entrust their lives to. This figurehead exercises his powers of governing every aspect of the people 's lives by observing and manipulating the populace. Big Brother also divides his subjects into classes as a means to keep the populace oppressed. Throughout this literary narrative the main character, Winston Smith, struggles to survive in this society as he struggles to fit the conventional mold that is preached.

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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.

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