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The individual is doomed in a world where the he is no longer in control of his self. Forces around and in him victimize the person, but all these forces have the same center, they all revolve around one main source. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith, the main character, falls victim to these forces which prohibit him from controlling his own life. One of these forces is the control the Party gives itself on the so-called truth, they take away history and replace it with whatever fits their needs. Another force that victimizes Winston is the Party's policing and unwritten laws, which in the end turn out to be the ruin of Winston's life. Winston also falls victim to his self; he is constantly fighting a battle within his mind against the evils of newspeak and doublethink. Winston Smith loses control of his self because of one main source; this source is the Party.The Party takes control of Winston's life using many methods, one of these ways is through their manipulation of the 'truth' in the past. In Winston's world any unpure thought may strike the Party as 'evil', if so they will make one disappear, or be an 'unperson'. This is one of Winston's many fear's. He is afraid of w
Even though the Party's methods of policing are part of the reason for Winston to lose control of his self, Winston's constant battle in his mind against the evil's of newspeak and doublethink are also a reason why. Winston commits thoughtcrimes all the time, which in the Party's eye are the worst of all offenses. A person may be able to believe that it is impossible to get caught for thinking something but, as the novel says it, "Thoughtcrime [is] not something that [can] be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they are bound to get you", (Orwell, p.21). It is impossible to keep something to oneself; it is in human nature to need someone to talk to. In the end it all comes down to whether Winston could fight his own thoughts, brought on by the Party because of the torture he must sustain. At the Ministry of Love Winston has to go through strenuous physical and emotional pain in torture, he got to the point where he, "...did not even know which answer he [believes] to be the true one", (Orwell, p.260). When it all came down to this final force he could not battle it any longer. This is probably the most important point, in a world where you cannot control one's actions, forced to do someone else's bidding, but to even have lost one's mind. A person's mind is the most important part of a person; a person needs that at least. But the Party is not interested in the body of the person, only their mind. When someone commits a thoughtcrime they are not interested in the actual act, they are only interested in the complete overhaul of that person's mind. When Winston is being tortured in the Ministry of Truth O'Brien explains it to him, "We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him.... We make the brain perfect before we blow it,"(Orwell, p.267). The Party is afraid of burning the heretic at the stake because he is still a heretic, and with that death comes the belief to others that it is possible. That it is possible to rise up against the Party and destroy it. This is why the Party destroys the mind before they kill the man. Through this the Party destroys Winston's mind. Eric Blair 1984. Penguin Books Canada Ltd., c1987
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