Totalitarianism In Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 By George Orwell

Thus, together, they find something that they party cannot take away from them, and that is their love for each other. This manifestation of love drives them to risk getting caught in order to seek out and join the Brotherhood, a mysterious organization whose existence is founded upon destroying The Party. The man they suspect as a leader is a higher official named O’Brien, who upon meeting the lovers, gives them a book written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the principle enemy of The Party. It is through this book that Winston can see his thoughts supported by tangible evidence. At one point, he reads, “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought” (Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 171-172). This helps truly reveal the government of Oceania as a totalitarian state that Orwell intended on making it. However, before Winston can achieve true rebellion, he is captured. What follows is an indeterminable length of time that he is brutalized and tortured. He betrays his lover, Julia, and begins to lose his own free will and independent thought. He is betrayed by the same man he trusted, O’Brien, and taught only to love Big Brother …show more content…
The plan, which involved stimulating industry and the workforce to achieve new production levels throughout the country, was originally set to be carried out over a five-year period. However, it was later discussed by The Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, a Russian Organizational Bureau, that “The Party 's confidence in the feasibility of the five-year plan and its faith in the forces of the working class were so strong that the Party found it possible to undertake the fulfilment of this difficult task not in five years, as was provided for in the five-year plan, but in four years” (Marxist Internet