"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
This, the final words of the book, shows that even Winston's mind, one in which the reader follows so closely and correlates to so much through the course of the book, is taken over by the party. Thus, the message is sent that anyone and everyone can be controlled, and every freedom that they have can be taken away if this type of governing system is allowed to come into power.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
"Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom."
This quote shows the extent to which the party evaluated and monitored their subjects. Even a wrong look that could reveal discontent towards the party could in turn result in your death.
This quote shows the extent to which the party evaluated and monitored their subjects. Even a wrong look that could reveal discontent towards the party could in turn result in your death.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now."
This exert reveals the reason for newspeak in the use of the party. It would eventually not allow people to have a means to express their feelings against the party. It would limit their ability to think out.
This exert reveals the reason for newspeak in the use of the party. It would eventually not allow people to have a means to express their feelings against the party. It would limit their ability to think out.
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
This quote tells of how the party changed any document that they wanted to make anything they wanted true, for every written document would be changed to make it true. Thus, in doing this, no one had any evidence otherwise, therefore, what they changed actually became history.
This quote tells of how the party changed any document that they wanted to make anything they wanted true, for every written document would be changed to make it true. Thus, in doing this, no one had any evidence otherwise, therefore, what they changed actually became history.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death."
In this statement, the reader can see the complete control over the people that they thought police has. It wasn't a matter of if you would get caught, or if you could bargain to get free, Winston and the people of Oceania knew for a fact that they woud be killed if they violated the thought police.
In this statement, the reader can see the complete control over the people that they thought police has. It wasn't a matter of if you would get caught, or if you could bargain to get free, Winston and the people of Oceania knew for a fact that they woud be killed if they violated the thought police.
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same..."
This shows the stupidity in the party's controlling system of government. It also shows the power of the party though; To be able to divide to groups of people practically exactly alike for no apparent reason.
This shows the stupidity in the party's controlling system of government. It also shows the power of the party though; To be able to divide to groups of people practically exactly alike for no apparent reason.
"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable."
This quote tells of how the citizen of Oceania uses no reason in determining whether the philosophies of other countries are correct or not. They just mark them out as wrong and unjust no matter what the facts are.
This quote tells of how the citizen of Oceania uses no reason in determining whether the philosophies of other countries are correct or not. They just mark them out as wrong and unjust no matter what the facts are.
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