1984

"He was standingup from the plank bed in the half-certainty that he had heard O'Brien's voice. All though his interrogation, although he had never seen him, he had had the feeling that O'Brien who was at his elbow, just out of sight. It was O'Brien who was directing everything. It was he who set the guards onto Winston and who prevented them form killing him. It was he who decided when Winston should scream with pain, when he should have a respite, when he should be fed, when he should sleep, when the drugs should be pumped into his arm." (Orwell, 201) O'Brien seems to be taking advantage of the power he has over his prisoner, Winston. O'Brien is trying to get the truth out of Winston about Julia and him. Winston is not strong enough for him because he is letting O'Brien control everything about him; the pain, starving him, and most importantly putting the party back in his head. This quote reminded meabout today and the wars that every country h...

"When his father disappears, his mother did not show any surprise or any violent grief, but a sudden change came over her. she seemed to have become completely spiritless. It was evident even to Winston that she was waiting for something that she knew must happen. She did everything that was needed--cooked, washed, mended, made the bed, swept the floor, dusted the mantelpiece-- always very slowly with a curious lack of superfluous motion, like an artist's lay-figure moving of its own accord, Her large Shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness. For hours at a time she would sit almost immobile on the bed, nursing his young sister, a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness." Winston's mother is a strong independent women that gave her children everything. She gave them care and love when their father left them. Even though she seemed sad that he left she would never show her kids. She wants them to know that s...

""And now I must go," she said as soon as he had mastered his instructions. "I'm due back at nineteen-thirty. Ive got to put in two hours for the Junior Anti Sex League, handing out leaflets, or something. Isn't it Bloody? Give me a brush-down, would you. Have I got any twigs in my hair? Are you sure? Then good-by, my love, good-by!"" After the time that Julia and Winston shared in the Woods, Julia gives Winston instructions on what to do after, as if she has done this before. Which she has. Julia seems like she is rebellious and she knows how to get men to like and respect her. Before Winston received the note about Julia's love for him, he wanted to hurt her physically. Yet after he receives the note he starts to fall for her, and after the time they had in the woods he respected her. I think that Julia has found a power that she can use in Oceana.

"But he knew the rest of the catalogue. There would be mention of the bishops in their lawn sleeves, the judges in their ermine robes, the pillory, the stocks, the treadmill, the cat-0'-nine-tails, the Lord Mayor's Banquet, and the practice of kissing the Pope's toe. There was also something called the just prime noctis, which would probably not be mentioned in a textbook for children. It was the law by which every capitalist had the right to sleep with any women working in one of his factories." In this passage Orwell is trying to explain to his readers about the capital and the powers they have over everyone. Basically they are very men with top hats who can do basically what ever their hearts desire. They are also cold hearted and don't care about anyone but themselves, as long as they have the power. This passage in the book really stood out to me because it reminded me of today and how those (men) with land and/or power sometimes takes advantages on wom...

"He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to his own. It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake. The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrily in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time whether were still privacy, love, and friendship, and the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know. the reason." In the quote up above I feel as if George Orwell is trying to tell us that we should not take advantage of the people we love and spend more time with them, because we never know when you will separate from them. Orwell talks m...