George Orwell: 1984

Quote (pg. 295):  "‘Down with Big Brother!’ Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I'm glad they got me before it went any further […]." "Who denounced you?" said Winston. "It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact, I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway."  Response : The children of Oceania enforces  the ideology and values of the Party. Oceania's plan continues to develop because of the commitment of the children. The children are similar to extra surveillance tools for the Party's regime. In this passage, Parson describes how his daughter turns him into the thought police. His daughter is so passionate and so deeply brainwash

Quote (page 183): " The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it […]. What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love."  Response:   His path to his rebellion is finally complete! He went  from starting a journal, to having an unlawful sexual interaction, to the committed arrival of the Brotherhood by O’Brien. All of this has finally made Winston an ultimate and true rebel. I'm so glad that Winston is finally able to reach that level of rebellion that he so highly desired. I found this aspect of the quote interesting, "t he conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it". I like how the author used a

Quote (page 150):   " She hated the Party and said so in the crudest words, but she made no general criticism of it. Except where it touched upon her own life she had no interest in Party doctrine […]. Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog." Response:  To Winston, Julia wasn't completely against the party, even though she disliked the Party. Julia wasn't committed to "any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure" this made Winston uneasy. I found it interesting that the text used a met

Quote (Page 141) : "They were both breathing fast. But the smile had reappeared round the corners of her mouth. She stood looking at him for an instant, then felt at the zipper of her overalls. And, yes! It was almost as in his dream. Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated." Response :  I thought that this part of the chapter was very interesting. Winston's sexual desires are finally able to be expressed. It's crazy how the Party controls even citizen's libido. Winston's wanton emotions towards Julia made him oppressed. The tone of this quote is filled with passion and unleashed desire, "And, yes! It was almost as in his dream". I can vividly imagine the scene based on the deliberate word choice, "she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside". In the past, Winston was

Quote (page 89):  " Very likely the confessions had been rewritten and rewritten until the original facts and dates no longer had the smallest significance. The past not only changed but changed continuously. What most afflicted him with the sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken. The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious. He took up his pen again and wrote: I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY." Response:  Winston cannot find the motive behind the Party’s controlling actions and manipulation of records. The structure of this passage was interesting because when Winston wrote in the journal the text showcased how he wrote the text. " I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY" t he uppercase letters of the words how and why really put emphasis on the topic. This passage is very important to the whole plot of the story because it shows how mis

Quote (page 28): " The sacred principles of Ingsoc: Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure forever?" Response: Winston is in a corner and trapped in regards to the Party's ridiculous ideology. This abstract issue eventually leads to the protagonist's end.  This passage quite caught my interest "   though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster", this sentence really showcases the turmoil of his thoughts and his conception of reality. The tone of the passage screams a dire need of change in the protagonist life. With this passage, the r