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George Orwell's 1984 touches on many disturbing aspects about the denial of a person's natural rights. It portrays a government that suffocates happiness out of its citizens. Crimes against Big Brother are defined as history, sex, and learning. Every view is poisoned by Big Brother. 1984 centers on a particular character, Winston Smith, who has ideas of insurrection. Big Brothers uses its implement of terror to discipline everyone who rises up against them. Winston Smith's struggle with the socialistic State, Big Brother, ultimately leads to his downfall. Winston fights a losing battle from the start; his covert crusade is unveiled, and he is punished for his radical ideas

Every aspect of life is Party business, and this omnipresence finally leads to Winston's submission. The Party frowns down on history, sex, and education; it clouds everyone's judgment with propaganda and deception. Its solemn pictures everywhere promptly remind its peasants that the party's control is everywhere. Winston sees these signs in all places, comments, "It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you moving. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption reads" (Orwell 27).This faceless mesmerizes its peopl

The ambition of Big Brother is to make people into a fearful obedient mass; this haunts Winston day and night. Winston lives in a totalitarian society which entails shabbily clothes, eating badly, living and working in drab-grey conditions. Big Brother does not hide the bland state of living. "Orwell shows us, it is a terrible thing; existing without any opportunity to see or smell or taste beautiful things, or even tasteful ones, is just as terrible" (Reinhardt 267) Not only is the food phony but the language is force fed to the populace. Big Brother is creating a new language called Newspeak. Newspeak is the ripping apart of the English language. Winston's stomach turns at the thought of not being able to express himself. One of Winston's coworkers is quoted saying, "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, and its useless shades of meanings. You don't grasp the meaning of the destruction of words." Winston knows that Big Brother is trying to cut down on the ways a person can commit a thought crime. Winston attempts to hide his fears from almost everyone; he does no want his fears exposed to the Party.

Winston's job is monitored by Big Brother; he does the fraudulent work of editing the past. Winston has a job in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth. He receives four assignments, tiny slips of paper on which are written (mostly in Newspeak) his instructions. As it turns out, these messages involve the "correction" of past issues of the Times, where a speech of Big Brother's is "misreported" or statistics forecasting manufacturing output are "misprinted." In this way, newspapers, books, cartoons, even films and photographs, are continually re-edited so as to conform to the current state of political and economic affairs, and to make it appear as though the Party has always been correct in its predictions or consistent in its alliances. Any and all prior editions are destroyed, no matter how many revisions are made. Winston reflects that in many cases, what he is doing is not really forgery, because the original statistics or "facts" are made up to begin with. This resonates with Winston's uncertainly as to whether or not the year is actually 1984. There are no longer any solid truths outside of what the Party dictates as acceptable. Winston does not fully comprehend the effort Big Brother is making to falsify the past, this does scare him though. What scares him is that he might be wrong in thinking the past is unchangeable. (Reinhardt 271) Winston thinks to himself that the Party will eventually claim that 2+2=5, and that everyone would believe it. The Party's slogan is "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." Ralph Ranald clarifies this quote:

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Approximate Word count = 1846
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels