He loved Big Brother could signify many themes that have gone on throughout the novel but the main one is that how much of our mind is actually ours. The mind is a wonderful thing and as Winston declares, "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you,"(166). The mind is the only thing Winston thought that the party could not get to. He was wrong. The party can access whatever they want whenever they want because they have complete control over everybody in Oceania. This part is disturbing because no one realizes that the Party has complete control except for the Party,"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull,"( 264-5).
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They have swayed nearly everyone's beliefs to agree with their ideals for command and that is shown,¨´Who controls the past,´ ran the party slogan, ´controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,¨(34). The party is clearly wise to the idea of controlling the past, present and future and they have managed to perfect this system. Winston is starting to become aware of some of the Party´s controlling tendencies,¨ And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested¨(93). It is known that Winston will later come to love Big Brother but he is not wrong when he realizes this. O´Brien also alludes to this when he states,"'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever,'"(267). This is most upsetting because if he thinks about Winston will come to realize that there is no hope, there is no silver lining, but there will be despair. The Past is being manipulated by the Party; however, the party does a lot in the controlling of the
They have swayed nearly everyone's beliefs to agree with their ideals for command and that is shown,¨´Who controls the past,´ ran the party slogan, ´controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,¨(34). The party is clearly wise to the idea of controlling the past, present and future and they have managed to perfect this system. Winston is starting to become aware of some of the Party´s controlling tendencies,¨ And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested¨(93). It is known that Winston will later come to love Big Brother but he is not wrong when he realizes this. O´Brien also alludes to this when he states,"'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever,'"(267). This is most upsetting because if he thinks about Winston will come to realize that there is no hope, there is no silver lining, but there will be despair. The Past is being manipulated by the Party; however, the party does a lot in the controlling of the