What effect does Big Brother have on Winston in 1984, and how is his obsession with O'Brien different from his attitude toward Big Brother?

's father
disappears when he is young, and his mother is left to raise Winston and his younger sister
alone. One could argue that throughout the novel, Winston is in search of a father-figure. Big
Brother should be that figure to him according to the ideology of the state, but Winston rejects
him. He can't look up to Big Brother because he hates what Big Brother stands for: as endless
surveillance and a regimented life without freedom. Big Brother is the father he rebels against
and of whom he wants to break free.

Winston therefore turns toas a more
satisfactory father-figure. He believesdespite a complete lack of evidencethat O'Brien is
fighting the government and shares his hatred of it. He falls into O'Brien's trap and admits to
wanting an active role in a conspiracy against the state because he is so sure that O'Brien is
on his side and is willing to guide him in the right direction. While Big Brother is the
father-figure who represents oppression to him, O'Brien...