Big Brother In George Orwell's 1984
George Orwell's "1984" focuses on Winston Smith, a middle level member of a totalitarian regime known as "The Party" and it's omnipotence leader "Big Brother". However one day Winston gets fed up with the current system and commits a crime, he starts to write down rebellious thoughts against "Big Brother" in his journal. Latter Winston finds a love interest in a fellow party member named Julia, who also has rebellious thoughts against "Big Brother". Julia and Winston latter in the story go to a party member named O'Brien to become a part of a rebel group called "The Brotherhood". Unfortunately for Winston and Julia, it turns O'Brien was secretly part of "Big Brother's" thought police. O'Brien takes Winston to the ministry of love where there
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Julia represents rebellion and protests the use of Newspeak to protest the government. In the novel, she says, “They can make you say anything but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.” She recognizes the power of language and tells Winston that they can fight it. By retaining a private thought process of one’s choice of language, one can fight the Party and its attempts at mind control. In “The Principles of Newspeak," Orwell writes, “The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible” (246). The rebellion exists in the idea that Newspeak cannot and will not make these thoughts impossible and people will have freedom of their own mind. Where language is a means of thought control, it becomes a means of revolution.
1984 exhibits the power of language. By changing the words inside a person’s thoughts, they change the thoughts as well. For centuries, conquerors have risen and controlled lands and the actions of people but never their spirit. Manipulating language has allowed such grave subjugation to the point of removing the will to fight for one’s freedom. Julia has only her spirit and her life, both of which she uses to protest the Party and both of which the Party takes. The dystopian society in 1984 works so well because they’ve not only captured humanity; they’ve captured the human
Julia represents rebellion and protests the use of Newspeak to protest the government. In the novel, she says, “They can make you say anything but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.” She recognizes the power of language and tells Winston that they can fight it. By retaining a private thought process of one’s choice of language, one can fight the Party and its attempts at mind control. In “The Principles of Newspeak," Orwell writes, “The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible” (246). The rebellion exists in the idea that Newspeak cannot and will not make these thoughts impossible and people will have freedom of their own mind. Where language is a means of thought control, it becomes a means of revolution.
1984 exhibits the power of language. By changing the words inside a person’s thoughts, they change the thoughts as well. For centuries, conquerors have risen and controlled lands and the actions of people but never their spirit. Manipulating language has allowed such grave subjugation to the point of removing the will to fight for one’s freedom. Julia has only her spirit and her life, both of which she uses to protest the Party and both of which the Party takes. The dystopian society in 1984 works so well because they’ve not only captured humanity; they’ve captured the human