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George Orwell's novel 1984 demonstrates how a person can be completely changed. Winston Smith the protagonist in 1984 was completely changed by the end of the novel. The government transformed Winston's beliefs from despising to loving Big Brother. By the end of the novel Winston was fully transformed, his way of thinking was altered and he was brainwashed into loving Big Brother for the rest of his existence. Winston has been tortured, in the Ministry of Love …

…is and that we need to attack them to protect ourselves. They want us to be scared about another attack, anthrax, biological weapons etc. so that we let them do what they want and they can say, "we are doing this to protect the American people and that is what they want and need". The government puts ideas of war in our minds, by repeating it and making it seem necessary, somewhat like O'Brien repeating 2 + 2 = 5.