Summary Of George Orwell's 1984

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What does it mean to be a true hero? Is it someone who accomplishes their goal, or is it someone who at least fights for their beliefs? In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith strongly believes in being able to overturn government control and free them of totalitarian government oppression. Winston is an intelligent individual who senses that what the citizens of Oceania have been taught all their lives is nothing but lies; however, his beliefs are tragically crushed when he discovers the truth behind the Inner Party. Although raised to think like the party, Winston is far from doing that. Contrary to others he understands that some of the actions the government takes, and the rules they put in place are questionable. Some of the tactics used The Ministry of Love turned out to be a torturous place where O 'brien pried into the mind of Winston in order to change his ideologies and achieve the purpose of making him an ordinary party member. O 'brien knew that both Winston and Julia were willing to do anything to revolt against the party except turn each other in, and so Obrien used that against both of them. One of the techniques that O 'brien uses to break Winston in is physical torture by methods of electrocution. He practically conditions Winston into believing anything he says to be true otherwise the voltage of shock increases. One of the most poignant phrases that sticks to Winston is that although mathematically 2+2=4 if the government wishes for you to believe that is is 5, then the answer is 5. Another method that O 'brien uses is Room 101, the most feared room of all. In this room Winston faced his biggest fear, which happened to be large rats gnawing at him. As the rats got closer and closer to him Winston began to panic hysterically until finally he began shouting, “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not Me! Julia! I don 't care what you do to her! Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (286). O 'brien knew that after Winston betraying Julia he had achieved his goal, and Winston would no longer be a threat to

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