Sunday, November 26, 2017

Book 3 Chapters 1-3

Chapter 2 
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" (313)

 This quote is very import and I believe it perfectly encapsulates the main idea that the book is based off of. To control the past and dictate what happened is to control how people will act in the future. We ten to make a lot of our decisions based on past events but if that is being controlled then the future can be controlled greatly. To control the present is in reverse reinstating the first part of the quote. To control what people do in the very moment means you are building a past for them to reflect on and refer back to to make decisions.

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Book 2 CH 7-10

Chapter 7
" He turned and fled down the stairs, with the chocolate growing sticky in his hand. He never saw his mother again." (205-206)

In this vital chapter, Winston wakes up from a dream where he vividly remembers what happened to his mother and sister. He had often thought that his mother was no longer around because he had killed her, but it turns out that that was all a fragment of his imagination. He never killed his mom or his sister, he just simply ran away from them. Winston was mad at the party because this was an important moment in his life that was suppressed due to the party's brainwashing. This reminds me a lot of dogs, I feel that due to their domestication, dogs suppress a lot of their instincts just as Winston has suppressed his emotions and this memory. I believe that all those videos of dogs running in their sleep is them dreaming about their suppressed instincts just as Winston has dreamt of his family.

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Friday, November 24, 2017

Book 2 CH 3-6

Chapter 3: 
"She had never heard of the Brotherhood, and refused to believe in its existence. Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid" (165)

Here Julia is talking about the resistance, she believes that it doesn't exist and she goes on to prove that she doesn't want to revolt. All she cares about is having sex and having her fun. I believe that this shows the amount of immaturity that Julia has but more importantly offers a contrast to Winston's reason to revolt.
Chapter 4:
"countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department" (173)
This quote shows how controlled the proles are, they don't even have a say in what their music should be. They are brainwashed and kept steady in the most ways possible as to impede their revolt. Oceania is very aware that if the proles united they could overthrow the government, but they have them so neatly controlled that this isn't really an issue.

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