book 3 Ch. 1-3

"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 decision and you knew what you wanted out of it. The Party just really wants to control everything. The Party tries to make it seem like they are what you need to survive and without them you won't survive. You have to obey all of the Party's rules, so that they can protect you from making bad decisions. O'Brien talks about how human being is doomed to die and that dying is the greatest failure. Humans are always going to die and the Party can't protect us from that. The Party is not as important as they make themselves out to be. This also made me think about the people of Oceania. The people of Oceania don't really know what freedom is. They think that they are getting all the freedom they need from the Party. It's easier for the Party to convince people that the Party is right because the people of Oceania don't know anything else.

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