...series of numbing tautologies, whose repetitions mime the endless repetition of the world of Oceania: 'The object of persecution is persecution. The object...torture is torture. The object of power is power' (212). Against this, Winston Smith's struggle in Nineteen Eighty-Four is to put together a coherent...

...comes to only one tiling: power entirely for its own sake. "Power is not a means; it is an end.. .. The object of persecution is persecution. The object...torture is torture. The object of power is power." The original idea of Communism accounts for the behavior of real live Communists no more and no less...

...relinquishing it." For O'Brien and the Party, therefore, power is never a means, but always an end: "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power" (217). If the object of power is power itself, then it can be attained only by tirelessly exercising...

...simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 8381 Nineteen Eighty-Four Power is not a means, it is an end. 921 1482 Among the Flowers 'Light' The night has a...one; Yet the light of the bright world dies. With 8382 Nineteen Eighty-Four If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...

...no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power. I7 Orwell, as Philip Rahv has noted, intended this speech both to recall and to refute the ideas of...

...but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. Power is not a means; it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object...torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" George Orwell, 1984 exhibit 4 The desire for power is too often...

...luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. . . . Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?45 Conclusion Our study of political cults has convinced us that...

...sadistic intentions: 'We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power ... The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power'; also, more concisely, in the Party's three nonsense-slogans: WAR 1s pEACE, FREEDOM 1s SLAVERY and IGNORANCE...

...for the disempowered. The Party uses the war to maintain the poor quality of life for the majority. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...revolution in order to establish the dictatorship, (p. 211) Using O'Brien as a mouthpiece, Orwell is making an observation on the desire for absolute...

...and equal." O'Brien is convinced that "no one seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it ... One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...revolution in order to establish the dictatorship" (2.11). The Wellsian dream of "a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly and efficient...