1984 essay

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1984 Essay

In 1984 by George Orwell, it seems that the government has broken the main character Winston down into a regular working member of society through torture. When the author says, " He loved big brother." did the government really break Winston down, or did he finally come to his own self realization that big brother is good. Since what the government says is right when they force Winston into accepting Big Brother they are in fact merely helping him become a regular member of society.

In the first part of the book Winston held on to his ideals and beliefs of what the Party represents. Winston believed that he knew the things the party didn't want you to know, " He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated." This shows that Winston did not believe in the things that the party told the people, because he remembers the past. This proves that the party was perhaps corrupt and that to keep their power they might have had to change the past for their own good. Also Winston's job probabl

Winston loving Big Brother brings up many different issues; was his long struggle through the book to separate from the government, or was it to try to be a part of their party. Winston knew of the "wrong" things that the party does was he trying to get away from that or closer to it. Well he says he loves Big Brother, which means (to me) that his long journey was way for him to try to be accepted in their society, and so through his pain and torture he was able to finally achieve what he wanted, to be a regular man.

y helped fuel his hatred against the party, " Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date... All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Seeing that Winston knew all this and that the party was basically asking him to produce a forgery could have warped Winston. This illustrates the need for the party to have control over everything even the very past. All the secretsey and scandals of the party led Winston to hating the party. This demonstrates Wilson's own personal truth developed by what he observed the party doing. But still the party was established for the supposed good of the people. Winston believed what the party was doing was wrong, but was he the only one?

In the last part of the book Winston is released from the ministry of love to become a working member of society once aga

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Approximate Word count = 943
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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