Abuse Of Power In 1984 By George Orwell

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The third part of the novel “1984” by George Orwell solidifies the Party’s main purpose to seek power. The Party employed various tools and tactics to control the people and to force its will upon everyone. Throughout the novel the Party uses propaganda, regulations, and verbal enforcement to enforce their power, but in this part of the novel the Party shows their physically and emotionally torturous tactics that can break a human to the point that they completely change in every way humanly possible. The reader sees this when the Party tortures Winston to his breaking point where he had given up all his integrity. Throughout the novel Orwell portrays the government’s complete abuse of power and how this abuse could be extended to the point

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