1984 George Orwell Character Analysis Essay

1984 written by George Orwell was a novel with many dynamic characters throughout the whole book. One character that played a major role in Winston’s life, the main character, was O’Brien. In the beginning it seems as though he is a good character for Winston, but then switches sides and is the person trying to take him down instead. Even though he was working against Winston, it is possible to see the true mind of O’Brien which “differentiated him from the majority of the Inner Part members” (Orwell 157). After applying The Milgram Experiment, The Asch Experiments, and The Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo Experiment), it is easy to assume that O’Brien was not a bad person he was just acting from subconscious decisions. O’Brien was a goodhearted …show more content…
The Asch Experiment was another sociological experiment ran on a group of people to see if they would to conform to a group answer even when they know it is completely wrong. To set up this experiment they placed one man in a room, the test subject, with seven other people who did know what was going on, the confederates. The examiner would walk into the room and explain how the group was going to take a vision test by looking at different charts and they simply had to say what bar on one paper corresponded with another bar on a paper with two other options. The confederates would answer first, by design, with a blatantly incorrect answer and by the time they would reach the test subject, he would almost feel compelled to answer with the rest of the group. Their conclusion was that even when people know that the answer is one hundred percent wrong, they still did not answer with what they knew was right in fear of being different from everyone else or they just thought the rest of the group was much better informed than they were. Throughout the whole scene with Winston in the Ministry of Love, there are many instances where other guards or people were mentioned to be working for Big Brother. While in the cells waiting for anything to happen to him, many people went in and out of the …show more content…
Zimbardo that proved people do things depending on the situation; they would not normally do. This was an experiment designed to test how easily people would conform to the role of guard and prisoner in a faked prison life scene. To begin, they converted a room in the basement of Stanford University into a mock prison area and later recruited twenty-one male volunteers to play either the role of the guard or the prisoner. The prisoners were to be housed in a room with the possibility to be placed into the solitary confinement room to make this as real as it could possibly be. As a way to make it even more real, the prisoners were taken from their homes to be finger printed and then blindfolded to be taken to the University where they were put into their individual cells and stripped of all their clothes with only a thin smock to cover them and a hat on their head. Everyone was specifically told the prisoners were only to be identified by their identification number on their uniform. Guards were all dressed the same uniform with sunglasses to prevent eye contact during their 8 hour shift with two other guards. They were told to do anything necessary, expect physical violence, to keep order in their prison. In order to receive data, many outside people kept information about both guard and prisoner behaviors, and found that everyone conformed to their roles within hours of being placed into the prison; it was