1984

"The pencil felt thick and awkward in his fingers. He began to write down the thoughts that came into his head. He wrote first in large clumsy capitals:  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY  Th en almost without a pause he wrote beneath it:  TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE." Pg. 349 This shows how Winston is trying to show that he has given up. We can tell that it has been a long time because a pencil feels weird to him. It makes me wonder how long they kept him in prison. Winston can't keep fighting and he has no more energy to fight. After all of O'Brien's torture, Winston is now trying to make it clear that he believes in Big Brother and the Party. He is trying to say that he will no longer rebel. The torture he went through really made him mentally and physically weak and I think that this was the Party's goal. If Winston had no more strength and energy left, he wouldn't want to rebel anymore. He would give up all of his thoughts of rebellion and only focus on how great the...

"You know the Party slogan: ‘Freedom is Slavery”. Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is  freedom. Alone—free—the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he IS the Party." Pg. 333 Here we see what the Party means by their quotes. For example, Freedom is Slavery. If you are alone, you can make bad decisions and harm yourself. If you are not alone, then the Party can make better decisions for you and help you avoid harming yourself. The Party wants you to believe that you can be one of them one day. Being one of them is such a high standard in Oceania, that everybody would want to be one of them. I think that you should be able to do whatever you want. If you make bad decisions, you should be able to get a bad result. You made the dec...

"Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘That the best thing for us to do would be simply to walk out of here before it’s too late, and never see each other again?’ ‘Yes, dear, it has occurred to me, several times. But I’m not going to do it, all the same.’   We’ve been lucky,’ he said ‘but it can’t last much longer. You’re young. You look normal and innocent." Pg. 209 Winston and Julia don't think enough. Winston just told Julia the best option for them and they decided not to take it. Julia even knows that this is the best decision and has even thought about it. However they both agree that they are not going to stop rebelling. They are so caught up in rebelling that they can't even make right decisions. They can do what they want, but they should know that they are going to get caught. They probably won't stop rebelling because they're already too deep. They've rebelled so much that it's too late to just walk away. Winston also doesn't kn...

Pg. 79 ‘Did I ever tell you, old boy,’ he said, chuckling round the stem of his pipe, ‘about the time when those two nippers of mine set fire to the old market-woman’s skirt because they saw her wrapping up sausages in a poster of B.B.? Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with a box of matches. Burned her quite badly, I believe. Little beggars, eh?  This quote shows how kids in Oceania grow up to praise Big Brother. Everybody in Oceania has to praise Big Brother and with the children praising Big Brother there is less and less of a chance for people to want to disobey big brother. This also makes me think about how the parents don’t tell the children not to commit actions like these. They don’t tell their children this because they can’t. If they were to tell their children that these actions are rude then they would be seen as criminals because they care about people who disobey big brother. I think that it might be difficult to be a parent in Oceana b...

Pg. 44 "‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink'."  The Party is talking about themselves in this quote. They make sure that they control the past, so that they can control the future and the present. This is the Party's way of making sure that they are  always  right and  can  never be called out for being wrong. The Party also makes sure that they use quotes that directly relate to them. They have to do this because everything has to be about the Party or no one will follow their rules. 'Reality control' is  what is happening now in our country with fake news. If newspapers are...