Saturday 11 February 2012

Evil Characters in Orwell's "1984" Which character(s) in 1984 is most evil? Why are his/her evil acts so seductive? What draws us into this...

Good
question!

I think that the most evil character in the novel is actually the
Inner Party- the people who are controlling the Outer Party and the Proles, to some extent,
whereandand everyone else reside. The Inner Party are the people who have constructed this
society, its norms, its rules, its telescreens. The Inner Party is seductive in that it can
reduce the ration of chocolate one day and the very next day make the same reduction appear to
be an increase. The Inner Party can channel sexual energy into pure unadulterated hatred with
pictures on a screen and they can change this violent hatred into pure love and worship of Big
Brother instantaneously. The Inner Party knows what people's thoughts are, they can make you
betray anyone, they always have absolute power and loyalty from every
member of the Outer Party no matter how serious the dissension might seem at any given time from
any number of members. The Inner Party can make a person believe that Oceania has always been at
war with Eurasia, even though a day ago they were at war with Eastasia. The Inner Party can
create people and wipe them from existence.

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