George Orwell's Big Brother: The Position Of Power In Society

The renowned Martin Luther King Jr know for being a social activist on the matter of equality of all races and ethnicities exclaims that, “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. Through Martin Luther King Jr, one can presume that notion of oppression causes a society without tolerance and ethical diversity. Power is a quality desired by every human being, some people crave the notion of complete and utter dominance over any human being it is a sense of control that gives them a certainty of confront that no other desire can live up to it, the desire of power goes as far as committing atrocities such as murder, genocides and wars to gain absolute control over one
In Orwell’s’ novel, Big Brother the position of power in society, is proposing the idea that one must adhere to all the demands of the party and also have to have complete loyalty to the party. O’Brien a delegate of Big Brother of the party enlightens Winston that the ambition of the party is to “The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party.”(280). In order to obtain complete and utter control of the people of Oceania the party are willing to eliminate sex to ensure that no enjoyment or loyalty will come from sex and that women and man will not develop any sort of relationship or loyalty with each other, but instead to the party. Along with the notion, with loyalty to party the corruption of young minds and the brainwashing the party is creating a feature generation of no loyalty but the party and that no one can be trusted but Big Brother. While Winston was in incarnating for deifying Big Brother, his neighbour was put in jail with him as well “Who denounced you? Said Winston. It was my little daughter, said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.”(245). The people of Oceania have been so brainwashed that not even parents with their very own kids show any bonds or loyalty to each other, even the father isn’t upset, that his daughter reported him while he was sleeping and uncontrolled of what he can say he was actually quite happy, this shows the distortion in the