Journal #3 1984

In the novel 1984 Orwell writes on how society has taken over the minds of people, and how they let society take complete control. This is displayed when Winston is being tortured and O'Brien was talking about how Winston must gain sanity back. Like being sane was a privelage. This shows that society  has taken complete control of all the citizens minds of Oceania and they have no control on what to think. I think Orwell is trying to say that Democracy is a bad thing in our society today because if we continue to let someone lead us and put all of our trust in them, than we will not have any say. And that means that we would all be zombies obiding by the rules of the Government,

If we all continue to let someone else make the rules than we will have no freedom is the warning Orwell is trying to make. When one obtains freedom and sanity by themselves than they will no let anyone else rule them. Orwell uses Winston as the exception in 1984 because Winston refuses to break in the torture room, and he has sex with Julia. Showing that Winston wants to rebel and not follow the rules of the Government. Now the thought police is a warning to our society on how if we choose freedom of speech then we must be careful of what we must say because someone can become extrememly angry in the higher power and want to kill you!!

Journal #2 topic B

I am going to analyze Julia in the novel 1984. Julia Is shown as a normal Oceania citizen and displays normal characteristics, yet she however is wanting to feel the need for rebellion. Because Julia is in the JASL party and it is against the rules to have sex because the party is trying to eliminate the need for sex Like Winston they both use sex as a form of rebellion to try and escape the rules of the Government. What was confusing to me in this novel was when Winston first met Julia he wanted to "smash her head into the cobblestone" (101). I was confused because in the end he likes her. Like how she is in the JASL (Junior Anti-Sex League). Why would someone feel the need to smash some one's head into cobblestone? And is Orwell wanted to put a significant character in the book why would he put such emphasis on him wanting to kill her when he first meets her. There has to be something deeper into the passage of Julia on page 101. I think that Orwell is trying to tell us that Julia has no real meaning to Winston. Winston just wanted to rebel and got caught up in the moment and never thought of her with real love or anything.

Journal # 20 1984

Journal #1

                In the novel the stranger the Government governs all. The people do not question the authority or the power of the Government because it is always right and they are forced to agree with the Government because of all the secretive societies telling them to and to think against the Thought Police. Like the Propaganda with all of the posters, and all of the Ministries. In the first chapter it shows that Winston is the only one to remember a time before the Totalitarian state in the Government, this is due to the fact that all the others are being brainwashed and cannot remember a time before their state of being. They have always been taught to follow whatever the Government says. I chose this next passage because it depicts how much of a higher power the government is than the “normal” people in society. This shows how they are all to have to upmost respect for the Ministries and how the people are physically more small than the Government itself.

                “The Ministry of Truth – Minitrue, in Newspeak* - was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on it’s white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”

(Orwell 4).