1. Why doesn't the party simply eliminate members who disagree with it? The Party does not simply eliminate members who disagree with it because that was the old traditional way of doing things, which made the persecutors look evil and the victim look like a martyr, and that the Party cures its victims first to kill them. O'Brien says, "We don't just destroy our enemies, we change them." He says that in this place there are no "martyrs". O'Brien talks about how the Inquisition was a failure because "they set out to eradicate heresy and ended up perpetuating it." For every heretic burned, thousands more would rise in defense and anger. The reason for this was that the Inquisition killed its enemies in the open while they were still unrepentant. “Men died because they did not want to abandon their true beliefs.” For this reason "all the glory belonged to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor who burned him". O'Brien states how the Party makes all confessions true from the mouth of the heretic, which leaves the so-called martyr as if he or she were actually the culprit. He says Winston is “a stain that needs to be erased.” That “we (the Party) are not satisfied with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When you finally surrender to us, it will have to be of your own free will. As long as the heretic resists the Party, he will never be destroyed. He or she is converted, his or her inner mind is captured and ultimately reshaped. The Party goes to such lengths to free them from their supposed evil and their illusions that in the end the heretic stands with the Party not by force but by heart and soul. They make the heretic become like them before killing h…… half the card……, and this aim was indirectly aided by minimizing the choice of words.” The government must have complete and total control of not only your freedom or liberties, but also your thoughts because with them you will always be free, no matter how much you are tortured, etc. You will die as a free person. Winston states, “To die hating them, that was freedom.” Giving too much power and control to governments will destroy political freedom and intellectual freedom. The appendix states: "It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically free' or 'intellectually free' since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore necessarily nameless." Basically, if we continue on our path, we will eventually live a totalitarian life without even knowing it. Works Cited 1984 by George Orwell