When Winston and Julia finally get to speak to O'Brien in
his rooms, he pretends to be a key leader in the Brotherhood, the rebel movement that
champions Goldenstein and is working covertly to bring down Big Brother. As such,
O'Brien asks Winston and Julia what they would be prepared to do to become rebels. This
of course is used against them later on. He appears to have mastered successfully what
Julia and Winston try to master: a double life, where he can appear to be a loyal
citizen of Big Brother and an important worker of the party on the one hand, but
internally, a rebel.
However, it is only when the Thought
Police arrest Winston and Julia that he sees O'Brien in the Ministry of Love and
realises how he has been tricked. O'Brien seems to be a strange mixture of torturer and
father-figure as he watches over Winston's reconditioning to love Big Brother, and it
seems that he, above all, symbolises the tyranny and the autocracy of Big Brother's
might and eternal power.
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