In the era of Big Brother, hiding the truth was the status quo. One of his slogans was “Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past”. This illustrates the government's deception. Big Brother constantly altered the truth to exalt the Party's achievements and eradicate the Party's errors. The Party has placed this enormous responsibility in the capable hands of the Ministry of Truth. However, where there is deception, there is always an opposition to the deception, namely the Brotherhood. Goldstein was the leader of the Brotherhood and undermined the dogma of Big Brother. At the Ministry of Truth was Winston Smith, who, after several years of servitude, was a disgruntled employee because of the constant alteration of documents to benefit the Party. Winston sought revenge on his employer and Big Brother by keeping an illegal journal in which he writes about the future warning them of the dangers lurking in his society. To express his anger, Winston scribbled “Down with big brother” repeatedly on several pages. In doing so, he committed one of the most treacherous crimes imaginable: thoughtcrime. Winston knew what followed traitors, he recognized that “thoughtcrime does not result in death: thoughtcrime is death.” Winston knew the Thought Police would come for him, but he didn't know how or when they would apprehend him. The television in his own home was an instrument of the Thought Police, an agent of the Party who persecuted thought criminals. Between the time Winston first committed a thought crime until the time he was apprehended, he developed a relationship with one of his comrades named Julia. . Julia, a young party member who housed a middle of paper...... Julia and Winston both purged themselves from the planet, but O'Brien went further and appeared to turn off the television in his house making it appear to Winston that they could speak freely. Winston then took this liberty and expressed his disapproval of the Party. Since O'Brien is an undercover Party agent, he meets Winston after being apprehended and since O'Brien befriended Winston, he was tasked with breaking him. Once Winston claimed he was an enemy of Big Brother, he had to be reshaped to conform to society's rules and love Big Brother. The process that followed was to break their morale by manipulating their fears. The revolutionary attempt was stopped by Big Brother, but it was only a step in the liberation of the people of Oceania. Works Cited Orwell, George. 1984. New York. Signet ring classics. 1949