Readers are often angered by the ending of 1984 because of Winston’s betrayal of his previous life for the acceptance of the party. This is a semi-appropriate ending because of the impossibility of going against the party because of their total control of all people’s lives through the use of fear, which had not been accomplished by any authoritarian regime before the rise of the party. The novel’s ending was semi-appropriate because it stresses a society where all people are equal, but on the contrary makes it so that people must give up all of their freedoms and have all of their aspects of life controlled to conform to the standards of the society. The party controls people’s lives off of three founding philosophies “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. (Orwell 26) War is peace refers to the fact that if the party always frames another enemy to direct all hate towards.
O’Brian works on him a long while, asking questions and inflicting pain. He tells Winston that it’s not the Party’s goal to kill, or to get confession, or to torture without reason. He tells Winston that he is insane, and that it’s the Party’s goal to make him sane again. He also tells Winston that although he (Winston) will be destroyed in the end, he will not be killed until he is “sane” again, until he has submitted fully to the Party and thinks exactly as they want him to think. If O’Brian holds up 4 fingers and tells Winston that he’s really holding up 5, Winston must say, and believe, that there are 5 fingers.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Essay One downfall to marriage for a man can be a loss of freedom. But in any situation, including being in an insane asylum, men will seek openness and the thrill of being free. Being committed in a relationship or a ward will bear down on you, but the venturing out is still wanted. In One flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Randall McMurphy and every man in the institution with him want to escape. A man’s drive for independence is very strong, but fear and being committed can bear down on the self-determination before he succeeds.
When Julia and Winston were having their affair, they find out that the “[telescreen] was behind the picture, … [the] picture had fallen [onto the] floor,” exposing “the telescreen behind it” (Orwell 221-222). Big Brother does not allow Winston and Julia to have freedom and to be in love, so they have to do it in secret. However, it wasn't really in secret because the telescreen was behind a picture. Thus leading to the imprisonment of Winston and Julia, taking away their freedoms. Big Brother takes away society’s rights, through their advanced and harmful technology, to ensure their control.
Scott Markowitz Period 2 October 2, 2006 1984 When someone meets a person who understands their secret motives, a comforting feeling arises within the person. In 1984, by George Orwell the main character, Winston, is confronted with an emotional battle. He is under the rule of an organization that does not allow personal opinion or feelings of any sort. Although he should not give into the feelings to disobey “Big Brother,” he does even though he knows that there would be dire consequences if he is caught. He gave into many temptations, leading him to disastrous punishment.
I snapped.” Because Vince keeps letting others hurt him for who he is, he becomes smaller as a person. Even his godfather, who was supposed to help him find his true identity, called him honey, thinking that Vince would be fine. Therefore, fear shouldn’t be destroying who we are because it’s not going to do any good except for hurting us physically. Secondly, fear shouldn’t hold us back because we are not alone. Someone close to us may be experiencing the same thing and we just may not know it.
After Winston agrees that he is “morally superior” to the Party, O’Brien plays the recording of Winston promising “to lie to steal, to forge…” for the Brotherhood. This use of irony further works to strengthen O’Brien’s claim. The speaker’s main purpose in the first segment is to use reason, or logos, in order to support his argument. He baits Winston into believing one thing, while contradicting it with another. Throughout the beginning of the dialogue, O’Brien establishes a rational tone; he uses logic to prove Winston wrong.
1984 Essay by In the book 1984, telescreens are like televisions that never turn off, always using propaganda to hammer in the Party’s ideas. The Thought Police are known to monitor the actions of citizens. Winston Smith keeps his back to the screen because he doesn’t want to conform. Winston lives in fear of the telescreen and eventually the Party has him “correcting” history to keep everyone ignorant. With the telescreens constantly shoving ideas into people heads and Wilsons “corrections” to history based on the Party’s records, people no longer can think for themselves.
“Big brother is watching you” Plastered throughout the town this quote forces the party to live in fear of never having the privacy to think and do as they wish if it be against the party. “On the wall sat the tele-screen a one way device allowing the government to watch you without you seeing them. The silkscreen inflicted on the privacy of the citizens and was there so the government could better control every ones lives. It was there too hear and see everything the people of the party did and to ensure that they weren’t committing any crimes or planning to rebel against the party. It instilled the idea that the government really is in control, or rather ‘Big Brother’ is in control.
Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. (1.1.3)” So don’t be surprised if the FBI shows up at your door because you searched something that the NSA can consider an act of terrorism. In all of this info just realize that the government has complete control of its citizens no matter what the constitution says they have what they think is considered a high power. These ideas are great but can be wrong in the wrong hand.