"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"Oceania has no capital, and its titular head is a person whose whereabouts nobody knows."

This exert shows how the party set up the governing system to keep everything local, so as to not let people see any place better than where they lived. To make sure that they had zero ties to compares themselves with something else.

"underneath the spreading chestnut tree, i sold you and you sold me"

This quote speaks to the fact that Winston and Julia realize that they will eventually be killed for their actions, and in doing this they show complete revolt against the party, to the point of giving their lives for the sake of freedom.

"Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 =4. All else shall follow."

Winston speaks of the concrete knowledge that one should have the freedom to say, thus KNOW that two and two make four. If one is allowed to know this than he would have freedom.

"Until the become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

This statement is referring to the hopeless circle of everlasting oppression that the proles were in. For they cannot rebel until they realize that they are being wronged in the first place, but if they cannot realize they are wrong until after their rebellion. The problem is that the Oppressers won't allow them to realize that they are ever being oppressed in the first place.

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."

Winston delves into the power of the majority in his profound statement describing that they only way that the society could be taken down was with the least able minded group who made up the majority. Of course the great perdicament was that they were the least apt to do so.

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

This, the party slogan, shown to any modern person would represent three contradictory statements, but this draws upon the foundations of the society in the book. The foundation that people - under a given oppressive, and controling governing system - can be made to beleive anything.

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

This exert describes how almost every thing one did was captured by the all seeing eyes of the thought police. Every movement, every simple gesture would be examined to make sure that one was completely in tune with the ruling society. I find that at first glance this society seems completely different from todays, but there are some parallels. For instance, in many larger cities cameras are set up on highways that automatically give tickets to speeders. Although the cameras have good intend to uphold a just law, I can't help but see the relation between these cameras and the cameras of the thought police.

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."

Winslow expresses how progress has turned into a bad, terrible, thing in the upsidedown society in which he is stuggling to confront.

"I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness."

The final words of the book have no concrete meaning, but continue the devastatingly sorrowful feel of the book. It also finishes with the recurring quote of "hear of darkness."

"I pulled myself together and spoke slowly. The last word he pronounced was - your name." I heard a light sigh, and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and unspeakable pain. "I knew it - I was sure!"

This exert tells of how Marlow lies to Hurtz mistress about his final words to ease the pain of her sorrow. This applies yet another sorrow and distasteful shadow in the closing of the book.

"The horror! The horror!"

The final words of the glorious prodigy, who seemed at one point to be the successer of an important position as well as many riches. He speaks the words in disgust of how he knew his glory, the benefits of all his hard periless work, would be taken, stolen, used by the company, and therefore he felt stripped of everything he had accomplished through his terribly dangerous exploits.

"I tried to break the spell--the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness--that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations."

This quote vividly illistrates how the drums and incantations of the forrest draw Mr. Kurtz to explore, draw him to the edge of the woods. Therefore, revealing how Mr. Kurtz's overbearingly adventurous mindset makes him strive to explore and simply do, no matter what.

I did not betray Mr. Kurtz--it was ordered I should never betray him--it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

This exert speaks yet again to the inner struggles of Marlow. This time he falls back onto his orders to never betray Mr. Kurtz to reassure himself in his decisions.

"I turned to the wilderness really, not to Mr. Kurtz, who, I was ready to admit, was as good as buried. And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also was buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets. I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night."

This quote very closely reveals the inner struggles that marlow is feeling at this point in the book, and how he can only try to releave it with his comfort and unyielding friendship with nature.

"He declared he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and then cleared out of the country, because he could do so, and had a fancy for it, and there was nothing on earth to prevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased."

This Quote is one of the first signs of the vicious and ruthless nature of the previously assumed omniscient Kurtz. It also speaks to how enthralled and devoted the young adventurer was to Kurtz, for he goes on idolizing the man without the slightest bit of hate for the fact that he threatened to kill him.

"Will they attack?" whispered an awed voice. "We will all be butchered in this fog," murmured another.



This exert shows they terrified feelings of the deckhands through their suddle and meak dialogue. One can easily visualize the shrunken body language of the two fearful men, as they are in great fear of becomin part of a skirmish.

The dusk came gliding into it long before the sun had set. The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks. The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf.

This exert desribes the transition into the night, and in doing so sets a bleak mood upon the atmosphere of Marlow's situation.

What did it matter what any one knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes such a flash of insight. The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, byond my reach, and byond my power of meddling.

This exert expresses the deperation in which Marlow shows in ever really being able to get to the bottom of the mysterious puzzle that surrounded Kurtz.

He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this - that should the water in that transparent thing disappear, the evil spirit inside the boiler would get angry through the greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible vengeance.

This exert tells of how a uneducated worker works tirelessly in order to keep the evil spirit, that he believes will cause great harm, from doing so. While reading this, I thought of the old saying "ignorance is bliss", for due to the man's ignorance is does much more apt to do work, but ultimately the saying doesn't apply for unfortunatly there is very little bliss in this work.

Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.

In this exert, Marlow has a hard time comeing to grip with the similarity between him and the wild tribal men. He discovers that being that start out so similar can become so very different depending upon the surrounding in which they are raised.

After all, for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the thing that supposed to float all the time under his care is the unpardonable sin. No one may know of it, but you never foret the thump - eh? A blow on the very hear.

This exert describes the deep unconquerable hurt a seamen undergoes when he wrecks his ship. This could very easily be used as a metaphor for any situation in which one has carelessly damaged something most valuable to them. For even if no one knows of the inncident, one will carry the memory of their doing the accident in the back of their mind forever.

There was an air of plotting about that station, but nothing came of it, of course. It was as unreal as everything else - as the philanthropic pretence of the whole concer, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work. The only real feeling was a desire to get appointed to a trading-post where ivory was to be had, so that they could earn percentages.

In this exert, the reader is shown the want of Marlow to be a part of something real; he strives to be a part of something that actually makes a difference. Time was being spent in conversation about things and various speculations were being make; Marlow desired to be part of the topics of the conversing, and actually do something that mattered.

He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country - the sea. One ship is very much like the another and the sea is always the same.

This exert, placed in the first few pages of text, eloquently expresses the mutual bond all seamen have with one another. You also begin to note the distinct writing style that Conrad uses in the book (one in which he frequently uses dashes as a means to throw in information in a frank and direct manner); this style is used to the extreme in many instances later in the book, where he starts a thought, then interupts it with a rambling exert, and then returns to the original thought.