Next, O’Brien directly approaches Winston in an attempt to falsely confirm Winston’s pipe dream about allying with …show more content…
He uses men’s habit to quickly invest trust in those who they believe to be likeminded against him to break down Winston’s internal defenses and seize control of Winston. Orwell shapes 1984 around this tendency in order to demonstrate how easily human beings take advantage of each other, and he warns people about the risks involved with investing trust in an individual simply based on their expressed beliefs. Why do people repeatedly fail to realize the involved dangers of trusting another person even though they are so