"For the first time in his life he moved consciously between two sharply defined poles" (149).
It is ironic to think that it took kill someone for Bigger to figure his life out. Bigger is like a crazy person who get a kick out of the whole concept of killing Mary. It is strange because in a way it seem good for him but what he has done is inexcusable. It good because Bigger seem to have a sense of confidence in himself and finally feel like life has a meaning. He finally can what he has faced all his struggles but kill someone does not compensate for his enlightenment. Bigger seems to be moving toward a dark and lonely direction. He is a dynamic character because he has changed from who is was in the beginning of the novel. I think he is still changing.
Is Bigger aware of what he is walking himself to?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Native Son
"Some day you'll want to get married and have a home of your own. You got your chance now. You always said you never had a chance" (101).
Bigger's life is a tragic story. Nothing seems to go right for him. When he finally got a good job maybe make something of himself; his whole world comes crashing down. He has killed a rich white girl and no one will ever forgive him for doing such an act. It was his last chance to do something positive in his life. I feel that Bigger's life is so messed up that everytime something positive come into his life he would unknowingly destroy it because he can not handle it. From his childhood Bigger's life was just a chaos and living in such way drove him crazy. He has a very unstable state of mind and when he is overwhelmed by his emotions he acts on impulse.
Will Bigger's life story have a tragic end? Will Bigger ever overcome his fears
Bigger's life is a tragic story. Nothing seems to go right for him. When he finally got a good job maybe make something of himself; his whole world comes crashing down. He has killed a rich white girl and no one will ever forgive him for doing such an act. It was his last chance to do something positive in his life. I feel that Bigger's life is so messed up that everytime something positive come into his life he would unknowingly destroy it because he can not handle it. From his childhood Bigger's life was just a chaos and living in such way drove him crazy. He has a very unstable state of mind and when he is overwhelmed by his emotions he acts on impulse.
Will Bigger's life story have a tragic end? Will Bigger ever overcome his fears
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Native Son
"She was dead; she was white; she was a woman; he had killed her; he was black; he might be caught;he did not want to be caught; if he were they would kill him" (89).
Just when things seemed to be going well for Bigger, everything goes wrong. He has accidentally committed murder. He did not kill any random person nut he murdered a rich white woman. Once he get caught no matter what he would be killed or put to jail for the rest of his life. Majority of society does not care about black people. They will have no sympathy towards a black man who killed a white woman. As of now he has no plea bargain justifying his horrific actions. This situation makes me understand Bigger's frustration a bit. He is being persecuted just because of his skin color, he has no way of getting out of economical situation, and now he killed someone. This like a cycle most boys like Bigger go through which unable them to get out the gutter.
Will this experience help to change Bigger's outlook on life?
Just when things seemed to be going well for Bigger, everything goes wrong. He has accidentally committed murder. He did not kill any random person nut he murdered a rich white woman. Once he get caught no matter what he would be killed or put to jail for the rest of his life. Majority of society does not care about black people. They will have no sympathy towards a black man who killed a white woman. As of now he has no plea bargain justifying his horrific actions. This situation makes me understand Bigger's frustration a bit. He is being persecuted just because of his skin color, he has no way of getting out of economical situation, and now he killed someone. This like a cycle most boys like Bigger go through which unable them to get out the gutter.
Will this experience help to change Bigger's outlook on life?
Native Son
"He felt ensnared in a tangle of deep shadow, shadows as black as night that stretched above his head" (72).
This was a very uncomfortable scene for Bigger. As much as Mary and Jan tried to make Bigger feel comfortable they just made even more awkward for him. First Mary makes him break the rules by not going to the university, which may potentially cost him his job. She was with a guy who he does not know and he started driving. It was like Bigger lost control of everything he was suppose to do and to make matters even worst Jan and Mary are questioning him about things he does not really want to talk about. Also I think they believe just because Bigger is black he as to join the communist group even if he does really want to and does not know what it is all about. On the other hand Jan and Mary were kind because they tried treat him as a human being that was equal to them.
Will Bigger ever want to join the union or became a communist?
This was a very uncomfortable scene for Bigger. As much as Mary and Jan tried to make Bigger feel comfortable they just made even more awkward for him. First Mary makes him break the rules by not going to the university, which may potentially cost him his job. She was with a guy who he does not know and he started driving. It was like Bigger lost control of everything he was suppose to do and to make matters even worst Jan and Mary are questioning him about things he does not really want to talk about. Also I think they believe just because Bigger is black he as to join the communist group even if he does really want to and does not know what it is all about. On the other hand Jan and Mary were kind because they tried treat him as a human being that was equal to them.
Will Bigger ever want to join the union or became a communist?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Native Son
"He was going among white people , so he would take his knife and his gun; it would make feel that he was the equal of them, give him a sense of completeness" (43).
Bigger is someone who does not really know who he is. He has to take time to figure out who he is. He also has to stop suppressing his feels and just try to deal with them. Bigger knows a part of him is missing and tries to fill it up with nonsense. One thing Biggers tries to do a lot is assert his authority. He feel like he always has to prove something to his peers and he thinks that is how is going to get him respect. In this passage he thinks that a gun and a knife will make him more equal to the whites and not realizing that it is just tainting his image. One thing Bigger seems to struggle is with his internal feeling. The one way he deal with them is through anger and violence.
When I read this book I wonder if their is a good person under the mask Bigger puts fourth or he is just a cold and unaccompanied person?
Bigger is someone who does not really know who he is. He has to take time to figure out who he is. He also has to stop suppressing his feels and just try to deal with them. Bigger knows a part of him is missing and tries to fill it up with nonsense. One thing Biggers tries to do a lot is assert his authority. He feel like he always has to prove something to his peers and he thinks that is how is going to get him respect. In this passage he thinks that a gun and a knife will make him more equal to the whites and not realizing that it is just tainting his image. One thing Bigger seems to struggle is with his internal feeling. The one way he deal with them is through anger and violence.
When I read this book I wonder if their is a good person under the mask Bigger puts fourth or he is just a cold and unaccompanied person?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Native Son
"That's when I feel like something awful's going to happen to me... It's like I am going to do something I can't help" (22).
I feel like Bigger is very frustrated with the situation he is in and he feels like he as to retaliate. He also has this over bearing hate for white people. This is foreshadowing him hurting someone due to his frustration and is going to cause his downfall. I think Bigger is just picking fights with white people just to get back at them. His feelings are understandable because his living situation are just intolerable. No should be living in this kinda of situation. I also feel like Bigger does not have is priorities straightened out, he much rather hangout with his friends than help out his family. Maybe if he surrounded himself with family things would not be so hard for him.
How will Bigger's change of heart come about?
I feel like Bigger is very frustrated with the situation he is in and he feels like he as to retaliate. He also has this over bearing hate for white people. This is foreshadowing him hurting someone due to his frustration and is going to cause his downfall. I think Bigger is just picking fights with white people just to get back at them. His feelings are understandable because his living situation are just intolerable. No should be living in this kinda of situation. I also feel like Bigger does not have is priorities straightened out, he much rather hangout with his friends than help out his family. Maybe if he surrounded himself with family things would not be so hard for him.
How will Bigger's change of heart come about?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
1984
Coralie Casimir
English 10 Honor
Mr. George
03-15-09
Essay
1984
Since the beginning of time men have been trying to figure out the way we came to existence. From a religious perspective God is our creator. God created the earth in seven days, he is everywhere even in our hearts, he is always right and knows just from unjust. In the novel 1984 George Orwell describes a totalitarian regime, whose ultimate goal was to create a dystopian world and to gain control of all the power. To achieve this goal they used different tactics to make sure that the people would not revolt. The most important tactics is knowing what the citizens are thinking at all times and controlling them through fear. The party is like a God to the people because they seem to control their whole lives, they seemed to be always right and everywhere, and lastly try to gain control of the people’s heart.
The party become equivalent to a god because they control every aspect of the people’s lives and also enables the people of Oceania to become self-sufficient. The best way the party controls the people is through the telescreen and through the Though Police. The telescreen is basically a television that watches the people carefully and sees everything that they are doing: “The instrument (The telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, 2). If someone was a party member there was no way for you to escape the Party. The people also had to listen to the party’s slogans, chants, and fabricate news over and over again on the telescreen. The telescreen is also a mechanism to reinforce the party’s laws and belief. The party does not want anyone going against Big Brother, the party’s leader and essentially the one everyone should worship and obey.
Winston always thought he had everything in control. He would think unorthodoxly and thought that the party would never catch him. He felt empowered by his rebellious acts against the party, but never did he know they had been watching him for years. He also believes that his skull was the only place he had to himself: “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull” (27). He felt he had gained some type of control over his life. Especially with Julia, he believed that the only way he could hold on to his humanity was to hold to the love he had for Julia. But the party was everywhere and there were no ways of escaping them. Winston quickly found out that every single thing he ever did was being watched by the party. All the precaution he took was useless. The telescreen had been observing his every move and when the Thought Police arrested him they already knew everything he had done. The gods were slowly taking control of his life.
One of the things the party has successfully accomplished was having total control over the citizens. They know what the residents are doing at all time. The party did not believe the people should have time of their own. The people were always occupied, from hard labor, long hours at work, or spending time at the community center: “To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude…was always slightly dangerous” (82). The party is a whole unit made out of people, and they do not believe that others have a right to have a life outside of that unit. If a party member is wandering around the streets he can be suspected of illegal activities. Knowing the party members whereabouts was not the only thing the party used to regulate the people. One thing they did to control most citizens was to scare them.
Everyone feared the party. The fear they felt was one of the things keeping the people from revolting particularly the proles. The proles were the majority of the population. They still believed in the personal bond between people: “If they were hope it must lie in the proles” (69). The only reason hope lay in their hands because it they are the ones who most likely unify as one to defeat the party. They are the only ones who could really form the brotherhood but the proles are so oppressed that they do not even know it. They would not know what to revolt so they would not rebel; as a result they become useless.
The majority of the population would not dare challenge the party’s authority, because the people feared the Though Police and what happened in The Ministry of Love. Winston says that people would try to kill themselves before the Though Police could get to them: “the proper thing was to kill yourself before they got you. Undoubtedly some people did so” (102). Most are scared of the Ministry of Love so much that they would not even approach it. They feared the interrogation method and condition of living. The people would do what the party said, so that would not go to the one in the Ministry of Love. In the long run not much was done to stop it because the people were overwhelmed by fear. Due to this mentality the party had won more control over the people; they gain control of their people’s action and thoughts.
The most important way that the party feels like a god to people is that they had created a better world for the citizens. They got rid of capitalism which was an economic system that only benefited only the rich. The use of propaganda was how the party gained much of its support, for example the misrepresentation of the life in the past: “In the old days [it ran]; before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was dark and dirty, misleading place where anybody had enough to eat” (72). These statements were what convinced the people that the Party was the better system of government and that they are working for the good of the people. The argument was easily bought by the people, especially the younger generation. They were born during the reign of the party and they do not know differently. From the beginning they are taught that the party is always right and never once made a mistake. It was easy for the party to make them believe this because they had the Ministry of the Truth alter the past.
The workers in the Ministry of truth were to altercate the past to make it so that the party’s infallibility was not questioned. They were like journalists whose only job was to rewrite the past so the authority of the party was never at risk because the controlled everything: “‘who controls the past… controls the future: who controls the present control the past’” (34). In Oceania’s history was changed from all the time and no one had any proof to disprove what the party tells them. Also doublethink goes hand and hand with the Ministry of Truth. It would be easy for someone to figure out that the party was lying, but with doublethink they just believe what the party says and forgets everything else. It was so easy to some people that would not even notice it that they would doublethink.
One of Winston’s major problems was that he was part of the transitioning generation and he worked in the Ministry of Truth. His job in the Ministry of Truth was to mutilate the past but could not bring himself to doublethink. He felt like he was suppressing all common knowledge and basic instant to believe what the party wants you to. If the party made an announced and said: “That two and two made five and you will believe it” (80). There was nothing an individual can do, it seems like the party had a divine power and it gave them the right to do whatever they pleased and it was automatically right. Winston believed that they are wrong, and also that maybe he is just the lunatic, wondering in a world by himself. He still believes that two plus two equals four but not for long. The party will eradicate all that made him Winston Smith and he will become an obedient party member. Nonetheless, he will learn to love and respect is greatest nemesis Big Brother.
The party seems to be like a god to the people because they controlled just about everything. They were all powerful and no body could stop them. They were organized and noticed all the small details. Big Brother the god the oligarchy created, he seemed to be omnipotent, infallible, and omniscient in the eyes of the people. They were always right due to the fact that they had the Ministry of Truth. They control just about everything, even people’s thoughts in feeling. In Winston’s case, the party was able to make him trade his love for Julia and his humanity so he could only love Big Brother.
English 10 Honor
Mr. George
03-15-09
Essay
1984
Since the beginning of time men have been trying to figure out the way we came to existence. From a religious perspective God is our creator. God created the earth in seven days, he is everywhere even in our hearts, he is always right and knows just from unjust. In the novel 1984 George Orwell describes a totalitarian regime, whose ultimate goal was to create a dystopian world and to gain control of all the power. To achieve this goal they used different tactics to make sure that the people would not revolt. The most important tactics is knowing what the citizens are thinking at all times and controlling them through fear. The party is like a God to the people because they seem to control their whole lives, they seemed to be always right and everywhere, and lastly try to gain control of the people’s heart.
The party become equivalent to a god because they control every aspect of the people’s lives and also enables the people of Oceania to become self-sufficient. The best way the party controls the people is through the telescreen and through the Though Police. The telescreen is basically a television that watches the people carefully and sees everything that they are doing: “The instrument (The telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, 2). If someone was a party member there was no way for you to escape the Party. The people also had to listen to the party’s slogans, chants, and fabricate news over and over again on the telescreen. The telescreen is also a mechanism to reinforce the party’s laws and belief. The party does not want anyone going against Big Brother, the party’s leader and essentially the one everyone should worship and obey.
Winston always thought he had everything in control. He would think unorthodoxly and thought that the party would never catch him. He felt empowered by his rebellious acts against the party, but never did he know they had been watching him for years. He also believes that his skull was the only place he had to himself: “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull” (27). He felt he had gained some type of control over his life. Especially with Julia, he believed that the only way he could hold on to his humanity was to hold to the love he had for Julia. But the party was everywhere and there were no ways of escaping them. Winston quickly found out that every single thing he ever did was being watched by the party. All the precaution he took was useless. The telescreen had been observing his every move and when the Thought Police arrested him they already knew everything he had done. The gods were slowly taking control of his life.
One of the things the party has successfully accomplished was having total control over the citizens. They know what the residents are doing at all time. The party did not believe the people should have time of their own. The people were always occupied, from hard labor, long hours at work, or spending time at the community center: “To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude…was always slightly dangerous” (82). The party is a whole unit made out of people, and they do not believe that others have a right to have a life outside of that unit. If a party member is wandering around the streets he can be suspected of illegal activities. Knowing the party members whereabouts was not the only thing the party used to regulate the people. One thing they did to control most citizens was to scare them.
Everyone feared the party. The fear they felt was one of the things keeping the people from revolting particularly the proles. The proles were the majority of the population. They still believed in the personal bond between people: “If they were hope it must lie in the proles” (69). The only reason hope lay in their hands because it they are the ones who most likely unify as one to defeat the party. They are the only ones who could really form the brotherhood but the proles are so oppressed that they do not even know it. They would not know what to revolt so they would not rebel; as a result they become useless.
The majority of the population would not dare challenge the party’s authority, because the people feared the Though Police and what happened in The Ministry of Love. Winston says that people would try to kill themselves before the Though Police could get to them: “the proper thing was to kill yourself before they got you. Undoubtedly some people did so” (102). Most are scared of the Ministry of Love so much that they would not even approach it. They feared the interrogation method and condition of living. The people would do what the party said, so that would not go to the one in the Ministry of Love. In the long run not much was done to stop it because the people were overwhelmed by fear. Due to this mentality the party had won more control over the people; they gain control of their people’s action and thoughts.
The most important way that the party feels like a god to people is that they had created a better world for the citizens. They got rid of capitalism which was an economic system that only benefited only the rich. The use of propaganda was how the party gained much of its support, for example the misrepresentation of the life in the past: “In the old days [it ran]; before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was dark and dirty, misleading place where anybody had enough to eat” (72). These statements were what convinced the people that the Party was the better system of government and that they are working for the good of the people. The argument was easily bought by the people, especially the younger generation. They were born during the reign of the party and they do not know differently. From the beginning they are taught that the party is always right and never once made a mistake. It was easy for the party to make them believe this because they had the Ministry of the Truth alter the past.
The workers in the Ministry of truth were to altercate the past to make it so that the party’s infallibility was not questioned. They were like journalists whose only job was to rewrite the past so the authority of the party was never at risk because the controlled everything: “‘who controls the past… controls the future: who controls the present control the past’” (34). In Oceania’s history was changed from all the time and no one had any proof to disprove what the party tells them. Also doublethink goes hand and hand with the Ministry of Truth. It would be easy for someone to figure out that the party was lying, but with doublethink they just believe what the party says and forgets everything else. It was so easy to some people that would not even notice it that they would doublethink.
One of Winston’s major problems was that he was part of the transitioning generation and he worked in the Ministry of Truth. His job in the Ministry of Truth was to mutilate the past but could not bring himself to doublethink. He felt like he was suppressing all common knowledge and basic instant to believe what the party wants you to. If the party made an announced and said: “That two and two made five and you will believe it” (80). There was nothing an individual can do, it seems like the party had a divine power and it gave them the right to do whatever they pleased and it was automatically right. Winston believed that they are wrong, and also that maybe he is just the lunatic, wondering in a world by himself. He still believes that two plus two equals four but not for long. The party will eradicate all that made him Winston Smith and he will become an obedient party member. Nonetheless, he will learn to love and respect is greatest nemesis Big Brother.
The party seems to be like a god to the people because they controlled just about everything. They were all powerful and no body could stop them. They were organized and noticed all the small details. Big Brother the god the oligarchy created, he seemed to be omnipotent, infallible, and omniscient in the eyes of the people. They were always right due to the fact that they had the Ministry of Truth. They control just about everything, even people’s thoughts in feeling. In Winston’s case, the party was able to make him trade his love for Julia and his humanity so he could only love Big Brother.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
1984
"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to her bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (286).
This very moment Winston had died, Winston had became the very he feared. He the face of fear he had gave up what he believed made in to human. The party has finally won over Winston's mind; he has become one of them. It funny how he believed that he would always hold on to Julia's love and that was the only thing that the party would not ever take away form him but it seem like when it came to it he rather save himself. The Winston who wanted to be a martyr for the next generation cringed in the face a fear. Winston has become just like the rest on who dies proudly loving Big Brother.
Ulcer- a corrupting or debilitating influence.
Reverie- a state of idle and pleasant contemplation.
This very moment Winston had died, Winston had became the very he feared. He the face of fear he had gave up what he believed made in to human. The party has finally won over Winston's mind; he has become one of them. It funny how he believed that he would always hold on to Julia's love and that was the only thing that the party would not ever take away form him but it seem like when it came to it he rather save himself. The Winston who wanted to be a martyr for the next generation cringed in the face a fear. Winston has become just like the rest on who dies proudly loving Big Brother.
Ulcer- a corrupting or debilitating influence.
Reverie- a state of idle and pleasant contemplation.
1984
"Our is founded on hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement" (267).
The party is very selfish party. They want everything for themselves and use the tactics like fear to keep the people from revolting. The citizens of Oceania seems to have no idea of what going on. The like robots programed to do the same thing over and over again. I truly believe that the party will never be overthrown and it will last forever. Because the proles will never revolt. They can not because they have no idea what to revolt for. Also the things going on the Ministry of Love scares everyone and no body would want to go through what Winston is going through, not even me. I would probably would buy into the party's propaganda if i leaved there and can also understand why it scares Winston. The party is just suppressing all common knowledge and the people are making themselves dumber do to doublethink.
Scraggy- having sharp points or edges.
Varicose- swollen, knotted, or distended to a greater extent than normal.
The party is very selfish party. They want everything for themselves and use the tactics like fear to keep the people from revolting. The citizens of Oceania seems to have no idea of what going on. The like robots programed to do the same thing over and over again. I truly believe that the party will never be overthrown and it will last forever. Because the proles will never revolt. They can not because they have no idea what to revolt for. Also the things going on the Ministry of Love scares everyone and no body would want to go through what Winston is going through, not even me. I would probably would buy into the party's propaganda if i leaved there and can also understand why it scares Winston. The party is just suppressing all common knowledge and the people are making themselves dumber do to doublethink.
Scraggy- having sharp points or edges.
Varicose- swollen, knotted, or distended to a greater extent than normal.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
1984
" He had the feeling that O'Brien was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O' Brien who would save him from it" (25
I feel like what the party is trying to teach Winston how to doublethink as an impulse. O'Brien does not want him to think about anything that he knew before but just accepts. Like when he was talking about what two plus two equals. First he says it equals four and when the party says it equals 5 so it wiil equal five. The Ministry of Love is just a place to teach people to think like the party. First they will break all the individual's foundation and rebuilt them as a hallow person. A person with no thoughts of their own and a person whose spirit has been broken forever. The person who walked from the Ministry of Love is dead when they come out.
Anew- in a new way or form that is unlike the previous one.
Respite- a brief period of rest and recovery between periods of exertion or after something disagreeable
I feel like what the party is trying to teach Winston how to doublethink as an impulse. O'Brien does not want him to think about anything that he knew before but just accepts. Like when he was talking about what two plus two equals. First he says it equals four and when the party says it equals 5 so it wiil equal five. The Ministry of Love is just a place to teach people to think like the party. First they will break all the individual's foundation and rebuilt them as a hallow person. A person with no thoughts of their own and a person whose spirit has been broken forever. The person who walked from the Ministry of Love is dead when they come out.
Anew- in a new way or form that is unlike the previous one.
Respite- a brief period of rest and recovery between periods of exertion or after something disagreeable
Sunday, March 8, 2009
1984
" In the face of pain they are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over again" (239).
Winston is not only loosing his hope but some of his morals. I feel like he is slowly forgetting about Julia because he is in so much pain. I think it is how the party alter the people's feelings and also has something to do with the room no one wants to go in. Like the guy who would rather watch his kids being killed than go back into the room. Do to torture and starvation the prisoners start to loose it and they will do anything to try to escape the pain. Then the party has gained power over them and can alter things in their personalities and maybe even their feeling. Because at this moment Winston is not thinking that he is a sacrifice for the next generation but is only thinking about his pain.
Sanctimonious-making an exaggerated show of holiness or moral superiority.
Dessultorily-aimlessly passing from one thing to another.
Winston is not only loosing his hope but some of his morals. I feel like he is slowly forgetting about Julia because he is in so much pain. I think it is how the party alter the people's feelings and also has something to do with the room no one wants to go in. Like the guy who would rather watch his kids being killed than go back into the room. Do to torture and starvation the prisoners start to loose it and they will do anything to try to escape the pain. Then the party has gained power over them and can alter things in their personalities and maybe even their feeling. Because at this moment Winston is not thinking that he is a sacrifice for the next generation but is only thinking about his pain.
Sanctimonious-making an exaggerated show of holiness or moral superiority.
Dessultorily-aimlessly passing from one thing to another.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
1984
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" (214).
Doublethink is one a the fundamental ideas in the party. It is one of the main reason people do not try to revolt against the party because they never thing the party is wrong. They suppressing what they know is right without even knowing it. Also they have no way of proving what is real are what is not, so they just believe what the party tells them to believe. What is so fascinating about this idea is how easy the people buy into it. How the people of this society forget everything else and just believe what the party says.
Tyranny- cruelty and injustice in the exercise of power or authority over others.
Irrevocable- impossible to revoke, undo, or change.
Doublethink is one a the fundamental ideas in the party. It is one of the main reason people do not try to revolt against the party because they never thing the party is wrong. They suppressing what they know is right without even knowing it. Also they have no way of proving what is real are what is not, so they just believe what the party tells them to believe. What is so fascinating about this idea is how easy the people buy into it. How the people of this society forget everything else and just believe what the party says.
Tyranny- cruelty and injustice in the exercise of power or authority over others.
Irrevocable- impossible to revoke, undo, or change.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
1984
"As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago" (198).
This quote, to me, answers Winston's lingering question. In The Book Goldstein say that the new society that has been created made no progress for the world. It is like the people lived during the Dark Age. They had no real ambition or curiosity for the world around them. This is do to the fear of what the party might do tho them. Also due to the fact that people are not allowed to think for themselves will not bring them anywhere. Furthermore, the party got rid of anyone who seems to be more intelligent then the rest.
Dilapidated- partly ruined or decayed, especially as a result of neglect
Austere- imposing or suggesting physical hardship
This quote, to me, answers Winston's lingering question. In The Book Goldstein say that the new society that has been created made no progress for the world. It is like the people lived during the Dark Age. They had no real ambition or curiosity for the world around them. This is do to the fear of what the party might do tho them. Also due to the fact that people are not allowed to think for themselves will not bring them anywhere. Furthermore, the party got rid of anyone who seems to be more intelligent then the rest.
Dilapidated- partly ruined or decayed, especially as a result of neglect
Austere- imposing or suggesting physical hardship
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