George Orwell: 1984

Quote: " He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. Now he had retreated a step further: in the mind he had surrendered, but he had hoped to keep the inner heart inviolate. He knew that he was in the wrong, but he preferred to be in the wrong."  (3.4.24)                                                Response : The months of torture was effective for Winston's obedience. The rebellion was never fone from his heart. His rebellious spirit will never die or shrivel.   The word choice like "heretical" and "conformity" portrays how much his life changed. It was full of tention and the battle of the spirit. The tone was full of pain, but at the same time a spirit of true defiance. This reminds me of many political rebellions. His actions and strong will is admirabl...

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...