Examples Of Despotism In George Orwell's '1984'

However, these morals do not only demonstrate how Winston is in league with Big Brother, they also explain a more deeper meaning, and that is that a person’s morals go beyond their actions and straight to who they truly are as a person. During his imprisonment, O’Brien had taught Winston an abundance of vital information about Big Brother’s stance on morality. In the novel, he had went more into depth about Big Brother’s morals by comparing their absolutism to other forms of autocracies. “The command of the old despotisms was ‘Thou shalt not’. The command of the totalitarians was ‘Thou shalt’. Our command is ‘Thou art’.” (Orwell, 322) Expanding from this, the phrase ‘Thou art’ quite literally translates into the archaic or dialect form of you