So the last of these chapters pretty much came exactly as i was expecting them to. The first half of the book i was expecting a total uprising and the lower party members taking over the inner party. After a while it became pretty obvious that nothing of this sort was going to happen and that Winston and Julia were eventually going to fall to the party.(i did not think so much for the party though)
One of the things about in this section was that O' Brien was actually very honest with Winston. He told Winston the parties true intentions and that all they really cared about was power and not the people. I liked the part where Winston started talking back against O' Brien even though he was going through torture and everything. He says that Big Brother can not rule with hatred and fear and that they will eventually fail.
The way that they eventually got Winston to drop his emotions was both horrible and brilliant, putting a persons worst fear right in front of them can make someone do anything. Winston dropped Julia like that. In the end when he and Julia met he noticed two changes in her one was that she had thickened up and the other was that she had stiffened also, which symbolizes that even she really died not literally but spiritually.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Pages 225-260
The beginning of this section Winston is in the Ministry of Love and he makes the statement, "He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain." From what is giving to us as the reader about the Ministry of Love is that it is a dark place from the torture and all of that it is pretty much a prison. In the story there is the statement that it is never dark, the very bright lights in the rooms are why this is i think. It is ironic about how it is the place that is never dark and all of this torture and death is going on inside.
A woman enters Winstons cell and she is kicking and thrashing, but when she gets put and she settles down a little bit she asks Winston what his nam is and he says Smith and the woman states that her name is Smith also and that she could be Winstons mother. Winston thinks that it is possible but right aways throws the thought away. I think he doesnt try to find out is the woman is his mother because what he has already been through and that everyone in this place, The Ministry of Love, is probally going to die that he really doesnt want to know if she is his mother or not.
O' Brien finally walks into the room and Winston cant help but say, "They've got you too." at this remark O' Brien states, "They got me along time ago." We all knew that O' Brien was a bad guy and Winston knows that he knew it too but why does he keep on going with O' Brien then if he had known what was going to happen. I think the answer to my own question is simply that he liked the feeling of being able to do as he pleased. He wasnt being controled by anyone (he thought) and he liked the feedom.
Finally, Winston is but through torture and the Ministy of Love does this to get the prisoners to their weakest point of survival, where the prisoners finially look at themselves at what they really are they havnt seen their physical appearence and the party shows them what they would become without them. At this i think that the party siezes the chance to manipulate the prisoner into becomeing a better party member and it seems that from what O' Brien says about them getting him a long time ago, that maybe they are training winston into becomeing part of big brother himself as an inner party member.
A woman enters Winstons cell and she is kicking and thrashing, but when she gets put and she settles down a little bit she asks Winston what his nam is and he says Smith and the woman states that her name is Smith also and that she could be Winstons mother. Winston thinks that it is possible but right aways throws the thought away. I think he doesnt try to find out is the woman is his mother because what he has already been through and that everyone in this place, The Ministry of Love, is probally going to die that he really doesnt want to know if she is his mother or not.
O' Brien finally walks into the room and Winston cant help but say, "They've got you too." at this remark O' Brien states, "They got me along time ago." We all knew that O' Brien was a bad guy and Winston knows that he knew it too but why does he keep on going with O' Brien then if he had known what was going to happen. I think the answer to my own question is simply that he liked the feeling of being able to do as he pleased. He wasnt being controled by anyone (he thought) and he liked the feedom.
Finally, Winston is but through torture and the Ministy of Love does this to get the prisoners to their weakest point of survival, where the prisoners finially look at themselves at what they really are they havnt seen their physical appearence and the party shows them what they would become without them. At this i think that the party siezes the chance to manipulate the prisoner into becomeing a better party member and it seems that from what O' Brien says about them getting him a long time ago, that maybe they are training winston into becomeing part of big brother himself as an inner party member.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Pages 179-224
So the beginning of this is Winston working all hard and what not for hate week and he finally gets to start to read the book that was written by Goldstein. He takes no waste in time to start reading the book and when Julia walks in she isnt to interested in reading the book. And they both soon fall asleep. The place in which both of them thought they were safe and out of harms (or the party) way is actually all just a huge set up because after they wake up the soon notice that there is a "bug" behind the painting. The thought police come and arrest them and we as the readers find out that Mr. Charrington actually is with the party or what ever.
All of this should have been excpected being the reader it seems pretty obvious that all of this is going to happen so i dont understand how Julia and Winston didnt know all of this was going to happen. In the end all i could think of was that both Winston and Julia are pretty much getting messed with throughout this whole thing.
All of this should have been excpected being the reader it seems pretty obvious that all of this is going to happen so i dont understand how Julia and Winston didnt know all of this was going to happen. In the end all i could think of was that both Winston and Julia are pretty much getting messed with throughout this whole thing.
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