1984 was a book that showed how much a government (in the book known as the party), and what they can do to a victim. Winston Smith is a man working a job to erase and rewrite history the way the party thinks it should go. He lives in a world where the mere though of creativity or new ideas is strictly forbidden and punishable by death, or work 25 years in a labor camp. Yet he kept a diary and made entries, which is again, illegal. This is a man that seems to want a rebellion, but doesn’t want to be the one to start it. Even to the point where he starts to believe that O’Brien, his supervisor (higher ranking in the party), is part of the rebellion, Brotherhood. He also later on falls in love with a woman named Julia and have a relationship, which once again, is illegal.

Eventually, O’brien “admits” that he is part of the Brotherhood to Winston and even gives him a book to read on it. As Winston and Julia stay in their apartment later, the thought police come in and capture them both. Winston is in his cell, where they torture him physically and mentally by O’brien himself. At one point, O’brien sets up a torture device which is to release rats onto Winston. However, before the torture even starts, Winston yells out that he wants the torture to happen to Julia instead. That’s when O’brien knew that his work was done, because Winston was now broken.