1984

This section of 1984 is very sad and depressing. It is all about Winston in the room being tortured and his conforming to the ways of the party. First it is back to where O'Brien is torturing Winston in ways to get him to understand the ways of the Party and how they are all about Power and they really don't care about anyone,people are just 'cells' in the world and they really don't make a difference. This makes me wonder. The party is made up of people. All are people who need to truly believe in the party in order to do this to others. So if the party is made up of people who run it and everything then how do they not matter? How would the party possibly be able to run if there were no people because, why should there be people they don't make a difference?



Ok so what also happened in this sections of the story was Winston giving up Julia. Not actualy confessing her being part of this but giving her up to where when he did he had nothing left to hold on to, to keep sane. She had completely changed and Winston noticed this. She was described as a 'corpse' which showed me that she, and Winston, had died. They had given into Big Brother and by doing that they lost themselves and died inside. Winston was at the point to where he didn't think of anyone but himself, which was exactly what the party had hoped to accomplish. By doing this he betrayed the one he "loved" and had given into the party which is something he swore he wouldn't do.

Was Winston lucky? He didn't get shot, but does that mean he was lucky, was he better off? He is alone, no telescreen, no one following him, true freedom. Just what he wanted right? But what does he have? No wife, or child, or Julia, no family, no one who cares about him or that he cares about. His life is empty. Winston may have gotten away without being shot but he spent so much time being interrogated that he lost who he was, and now he loves Big Brother which is exactly what they wanted. I think Winston was in a lose-lose situation. If he were to get shot they would have made sure he died loving Big Brother and he would have lost his self anyway. In the end Winston is dead and the party has vaporized Winstons sould.

I thought the overall book was very good, one of our better ones. It made a enormous point of how we don't really know what is true, we just believe what we were taught and that is what is right to us. This book was very different from the other books we normally read and that is why I think it is one of the better ones. Also it is more modern and is something we could relate to. I really enjoyed this book.