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1984 Critical Essay #3
In the following essay, Ranald discusses Orwell's presentation of controlled madness and of a reversed society in his novel.
"I shall save
you, Winston, I shall make you perfect." So O'Brien, the Grand Inquisitor of 1984,
has said to the antihero Winston Smith, in one of the dream sequences which
strangely go almost unnoticed in that inverted Platonic dialogue which is
Orwell's monument. It is as if the lives of the Platonic philosopher-kings were
viewed from the point of view of one of the Auxiliaries. But it is not the old
style of dialogue, in which there is a certainamount of free
interchange of ideas, even between master and disciple. Rather, in this new
style of dialogue, one party has the ability to inflict pain on the other party
in any degree desired, even while the two proceed to discuss the most...
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