In George Orwell’s 1984, O 'brien is an inner party member, who replaces the father figure in Winston’s life, and on the other side, the son is played by an outer party member, Winston. Winston is a rebellious individual who catches the attention of O 'Brien who has the intention to concede winston 's thoughts, re-educate his emotions with the party, and cleanse his mind from insane notions. In addition, O’Brien operates with physical manner to discipline Winston. However O 'Brien is politically much larger of a person than Winston, thus Winston adopts an admiration for O 'Brien. Throughout the story a relationship between an inner party member and Winston emerges and is indistinguishable to a father and son relationship, displayed in the
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O 'Brien plays a role of a father in the aspect that he provides physiological therapy and education to aid Winston. Orwell makes it obvious that when O’Brien “spoke his voice was gentle and patient. He had the air of doctor a teacher or even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish”(Orwell 257). Comparing O’Brien to a priest, doctor, and a teacher, and found in each of these occupations share a trait that are found in a traditional father. Orwell refers to O 'brien as a priest as he attempts to teach Winston that Big Brother is what he should believe in. Furthermore, Winston is like a child who explains the sins that he has committed to his father who is also his advisor. In which he has to confess his sins before being able to be helped. After confessing his acts of shame, O’Brien is able to educate Winston. O’Brien was the one who “recognizes” Winston 's sanity and “engages him in combat”. O”Brien acts like a doctor who are able to find those who need help, Winston is a “worthy opponent” as he is a true threat to society and for the stability of the party he has to be …show more content…
Winston describes O 'Brien as “a Tormentor, he was a Protector, he was an inquisitor ... he was a friend.”(Orwell 256) which are all evident when O 'Brien was disciplining Winston in room 101. Similar to a father, O 'Brien torments not just for physical pain but to educate Winston “Winston hopes to be shot quickly, so that he will die still hating Big Brother, still loving Julia. But O 'Brien understands this, too. It is not Winston 's life he wants, but his soul, what is "inside him."” (Patai 295). This explains how if O’Brien’s attentions is to strip Winston 's mind and make in pledge his allegiance to the party rather than punish him with physical pain. Throughout the torture, Winston still believes that O 'Brien “was his protector, that the pain was something that came from the outside, from some other source, and that O 'Brien who would save him from it” (Orwell 263). Winston never thought that O 'Brien was the cause of the pain but always someone who was making his best efforts to stop it. Similar to when a father disciplines his child, he doesn 't want to beat their child but is forced to do so, in order to protect him from him repeating their wrongdoings. In reality, children are punished for their disobedient actions specifically, those that are unacceptable in society. “During one of the torture sessions … Winston 's, like D-503 's, is man 's last disobedience; there will be no more Adams and no more Eves in utopia. “ (Beauchamp
O 'Brien plays a role of a father in the aspect that he provides physiological therapy and education to aid Winston. Orwell makes it obvious that when O’Brien “spoke his voice was gentle and patient. He had the air of doctor a teacher or even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish”(Orwell 257). Comparing O’Brien to a priest, doctor, and a teacher, and found in each of these occupations share a trait that are found in a traditional father. Orwell refers to O 'brien as a priest as he attempts to teach Winston that Big Brother is what he should believe in. Furthermore, Winston is like a child who explains the sins that he has committed to his father who is also his advisor. In which he has to confess his sins before being able to be helped. After confessing his acts of shame, O’Brien is able to educate Winston. O’Brien was the one who “recognizes” Winston 's sanity and “engages him in combat”. O”Brien acts like a doctor who are able to find those who need help, Winston is a “worthy opponent” as he is a true threat to society and for the stability of the party he has to be …show more content…
Winston describes O 'Brien as “a Tormentor, he was a Protector, he was an inquisitor ... he was a friend.”(Orwell 256) which are all evident when O 'Brien was disciplining Winston in room 101. Similar to a father, O 'Brien torments not just for physical pain but to educate Winston “Winston hopes to be shot quickly, so that he will die still hating Big Brother, still loving Julia. But O 'Brien understands this, too. It is not Winston 's life he wants, but his soul, what is "inside him."” (Patai 295). This explains how if O’Brien’s attentions is to strip Winston 's mind and make in pledge his allegiance to the party rather than punish him with physical pain. Throughout the torture, Winston still believes that O 'Brien “was his protector, that the pain was something that came from the outside, from some other source, and that O 'Brien who would save him from it” (Orwell 263). Winston never thought that O 'Brien was the cause of the pain but always someone who was making his best efforts to stop it. Similar to when a father disciplines his child, he doesn 't want to beat their child but is forced to do so, in order to protect him from him repeating their wrongdoings. In reality, children are punished for their disobedient actions specifically, those that are unacceptable in society. “During one of the torture sessions … Winston 's, like D-503 's, is man 's last disobedience; there will be no more Adams and no more Eves in utopia. “ (Beauchamp