3/31/09
"Nawsuh! You got me wrong! Mr. Jan gave me them things! He and Miss Dalton told me to read'em..."(161).
This quote is significant because here we see how Bigger uses the prejudices Mr. Dalton and Britten have against communists and blacks. Bigger is accused of being a communist solely based on the color of his skin. Bigger counter acts this be stating that Jan was the communist, that he was the one who gave Bigger the pamphlets. Immediately Mr. Dalton sympathizes with Bigger who now makes Jan the primary suspect. This exemplifies how Mary's death has only made Bigger more powerful as a black person and for once in his life on top of everyone else.
Do you think that Bigger will get away with his plan of accusing Jan?
Why is Britter still skeptical of Brigger's story?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Native Son pg. 140
3/28/09
"...and after a while send that boy to me. I want to talk to him"(126).
I think this quote is important because during this interrogation with Bigger and Mrs. Dalton it seems that this is the first time Bigger is in control. His whole life, from our understanding of it, was being nagged by his mother and by being apart of a gang. He was never really the one making decisions for himself. Even when he killed Mary, it wasn't a decision, just instinct. This is the first time in his life where he controls reality and his own fate rather than others choosing it for him.
Why doesn't Bigger just quit the job and get away from the madness?
How would Jan's perspectives of blacks change if he found out that Bigger was trying to frame him?
"...and after a while send that boy to me. I want to talk to him"(126).
I think this quote is important because during this interrogation with Bigger and Mrs. Dalton it seems that this is the first time Bigger is in control. His whole life, from our understanding of it, was being nagged by his mother and by being apart of a gang. He was never really the one making decisions for himself. Even when he killed Mary, it wasn't a decision, just instinct. This is the first time in his life where he controls reality and his own fate rather than others choosing it for him.
Why doesn't Bigger just quit the job and get away from the madness?
How would Jan's perspectives of blacks change if he found out that Bigger was trying to frame him?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Native Son blog pg. 94
3/25/09
"He got the hatchet, held the head at a slanting angle with his left hand, after pausing in an attitude of prayer, sent the blade of the hatchet into the bone of the throat with all the strength of his body. The head rolled off" (92).
although a very gruesome quote, i belive that Wright intentionally uses this quote to explain the savageness and non humane nature of Bigger throughout the novel. We are all aware that Bigger is a very unstable person, and protects himself with the only thing he knows how to, violence. This incident is only a mere example of how Bigger is easily angered and how easily his emotions are corupted. When Mrs. Dalton walks in the room he is afraid that Marry will release information that might get him in trouble and possibly fired. In defence Bigger smothers Marry out of impulse and instinct to protect his cover. Also it seems as though this is just another hit for Bigger. He wasnt like most people who after they murdered someone, especially someone of such high calibur as Marry, would be an emotional wreck and ouldnt live with themselves. Bigger on the other hand was already planning out how he was going to ferociously decapitate Marry and burn her, and how to cover it all up.
Do you really think that Mr. and Mrs. Dalton will accuse Jan of this murder?
Do you think that Mrs. Dalton might secretly know that Marry is dead?
"He got the hatchet, held the head at a slanting angle with his left hand, after pausing in an attitude of prayer, sent the blade of the hatchet into the bone of the throat with all the strength of his body. The head rolled off" (92).
although a very gruesome quote, i belive that Wright intentionally uses this quote to explain the savageness and non humane nature of Bigger throughout the novel. We are all aware that Bigger is a very unstable person, and protects himself with the only thing he knows how to, violence. This incident is only a mere example of how Bigger is easily angered and how easily his emotions are corupted. When Mrs. Dalton walks in the room he is afraid that Marry will release information that might get him in trouble and possibly fired. In defence Bigger smothers Marry out of impulse and instinct to protect his cover. Also it seems as though this is just another hit for Bigger. He wasnt like most people who after they murdered someone, especially someone of such high calibur as Marry, would be an emotional wreck and ouldnt live with themselves. Bigger on the other hand was already planning out how he was going to ferociously decapitate Marry and burn her, and how to cover it all up.
Do you really think that Mr. and Mrs. Dalton will accuse Jan of this murder?
Do you think that Mrs. Dalton might secretly know that Marry is dead?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Native Son pg.77
3/24/09
"I want to know these people. Never in my life have i been inside of a Negro home. Yet they must live like we live. They're human...There are twelve million of them...They live in our country...In the same city with us..."(70).
This quote is important because it resembles how Mary is blind to the social standing of blacks and whites in the society she lives in. She makes a connection that whites and blacks live in the same houses and the same lifestyle because they are both humans, they both live in the same city, and the same country. Obviously this is not the truth. This represents how Mary is different from "normal" whites. Also I think that Mary and Jan's kind attitude toward Bigger is abnormal and mentally confuses Bigger, because normally a white person would disrespect someone like Bigger. She is sort of like her mother, she cant really tell the difference between a white and black person. I think that because Mary and Jan are different than most whites that they unintentionally cause Bigger discomfort because he is not used to this sort of treatment by whites.
Knowing Biggers unstable personality, how might Mary and Jan's kindness turn into madness?
If they know that this might make Bigger uncomfortable, why do Jan and Mary continue to make him feel that way?
"I want to know these people. Never in my life have i been inside of a Negro home. Yet they must live like we live. They're human...There are twelve million of them...They live in our country...In the same city with us..."(70).
This quote is important because it resembles how Mary is blind to the social standing of blacks and whites in the society she lives in. She makes a connection that whites and blacks live in the same houses and the same lifestyle because they are both humans, they both live in the same city, and the same country. Obviously this is not the truth. This represents how Mary is different from "normal" whites. Also I think that Mary and Jan's kind attitude toward Bigger is abnormal and mentally confuses Bigger, because normally a white person would disrespect someone like Bigger. She is sort of like her mother, she cant really tell the difference between a white and black person. I think that because Mary and Jan are different than most whites that they unintentionally cause Bigger discomfort because he is not used to this sort of treatment by whites.
Knowing Biggers unstable personality, how might Mary and Jan's kindness turn into madness?
If they know that this might make Bigger uncomfortable, why do Jan and Mary continue to make him feel that way?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Native Son pg. 53
3/23/09
"He was going among white people, so he would take is knife and his gun; it would make him feel that he was the equal of them, give him a sense of completeness"(43).
I think this quote explains Biggers way of living. It seems as if the only thing Bigger relies on is his gun and knife, violence and theft. This is sort of the main cover up Brigger puts on to hide his inner self. In order to hide his fear, he uses violence. i.e. When Bigger attacked Gus because he was too afraid to rob Mr. Blumm. It seems as though violence is the solution for everything for him. It also resembles the closest thing to a white man he can become, that with his knife and gun, he is equal to them. Not because of his work or personality, but because of his weapons.
Why did Bigger really go out for the job?
Is violence the peoples only sense of protection (Doc)?
"He was going among white people, so he would take is knife and his gun; it would make him feel that he was the equal of them, give him a sense of completeness"(43).
I think this quote explains Biggers way of living. It seems as if the only thing Bigger relies on is his gun and knife, violence and theft. This is sort of the main cover up Brigger puts on to hide his inner self. In order to hide his fear, he uses violence. i.e. When Bigger attacked Gus because he was too afraid to rob Mr. Blumm. It seems as though violence is the solution for everything for him. It also resembles the closest thing to a white man he can become, that with his knife and gun, he is equal to them. Not because of his work or personality, but because of his weapons.
Why did Bigger really go out for the job?
Is violence the peoples only sense of protection (Doc)?
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Native Son pg. 30
3/21/09
"They had always robbed Negroes. they felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes"(14).
This quote is significant because it really explains the racial environment that Bigger lives in. That white people in that society are so powerful, that they would rather rob many of their people as opposed to on white man. I think that this is the reason that Bigger is to corrupt and in the wrong place in life. Because he is constantly threatened by the thought of white people, and that they have everything while he has nothing. I also think that he sort of feels the white taking over in him and that he will become something that he doesn't want to become.
How might Biggers short temper with Gus evolve into a more serious problem in the future?
Bigger is always being accused of his groups/families troubles by his mom and gang members. Could this be why bigger is what he is?
"They had always robbed Negroes. they felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes"(14).
This quote is significant because it really explains the racial environment that Bigger lives in. That white people in that society are so powerful, that they would rather rob many of their people as opposed to on white man. I think that this is the reason that Bigger is to corrupt and in the wrong place in life. Because he is constantly threatened by the thought of white people, and that they have everything while he has nothing. I also think that he sort of feels the white taking over in him and that he will become something that he doesn't want to become.
How might Biggers short temper with Gus evolve into a more serious problem in the future?
Bigger is always being accused of his groups/families troubles by his mom and gang members. Could this be why bigger is what he is?
Friday, March 20, 2009
Essay
Stephen Simmons
English 10 Honors/Mr. George
Do we see Winston as a hero, failure, or average?
3/19/09
Hero, Failure, or average?
“Hero: a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.”(Google.com).Throughout the course of history the world has been introduced to different kinds of heroes, some who could bend cars with their hands, and others who were normal people fighting for a cause larger than themselves. They were people with courage, strength, and valor, people who would go against what isn’t right. Winston, in George Orwell’s 1984, is a hero, not in the traditional sense with superpowers, but in the more modern sense, as a selfless rebel with a cause. After all, he is only human. Winston is still a hero, even though he did not triumph in the end, because he showed great courage and strength in the events leading up to his near death.
All heroes that ever existed were different from society. Whether they had x-ray vision or the intelligence of the whole world combined, or even a different skin color, heroes have and will always be somewhat set off from the average man and woman. In Orwellian society, Winston is not like the average man or woman. In this society men and women were lured by the Parties ideas to the point where they could do nothing but breathe the Party’s messages and teachings. Those who were taken under the spell of the Party were the average civilians. They were those who worked for the party and thought nothing against it, like O’Brien; a member of the inner Party. There were also those who failed to realize their place in life and absorbed the fear that the Party emitted through waves of discrimination and hate. These are the failures, better known as the proletarian.
Both groups, the average civilians and the proletarian, did not oppose the party and never would. These people served Big Brother as if they were waiters, and mocked those who died because they failed to do the same. This is the underlining difference between Winston and those living in the society around him; that the people in this society worshiped this concept without second thought, and failed to do otherwise, whereas Winston opposed the party by committing small crimes against the Party.
Winston puts on a disguise in order to mask the hatred he broils in his heart against the Party and Big Brother. The disguise he puts on isn’t a suit jacket, or a human identity, but a false expression on his face that indicates no abnormal behavior for the Party to worry about. With the constant monitoring of the people by the Party, Winston can do nothing to rebel against the party without the risk of being captured, but secretly writes in his diary every night until the fear he bears is broken. In the beginning of the novel, Winston is still kept back by the fear of the Party. When he buys the diary he didn’t intend for it to be a heroic act of rebellion, it was just something that he did without thinking. However, as the novel progresses and Winston begins to write daily entries in his journal, his heroism grows larger and larger. The heroism was not in the buying of the diary, or his ability to disguise his hate, but the courage it took to do those actions.
From the beginning of the novel when Winston made a move against the party, he was always a hero even though he didn’t know it. “On impulse he had turned away from the bus stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London…losing himself along unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going” (Orwell 82). Also, when he first bought the diary and wrote the words, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER,” (18) he wasn’t too conscious of the fact that he had done so, but he accepted that he did. Instead of searching for a way to dispose of the diary, he hid it in fear that the thought police would find it and take him. It would take a very significant amount of courage to hide or keep a diary in your possession, knowing that some day, if discovered, it could mean death. As his entries increase, the fear Winston feels for the Party decreases, making his actions and entries more and more courageous. At one point in the novel he takes the risk of strolling through the prole quarter which was an odd thing to do for a man of his social standing. There he tries to answer the question as to whether or not life was better before the revolution or after. Although he did not get the answer he was looking for, or any answer for that matter, these small acts against the party acted as a trial to see how far he would go until he was caught. The heroism wasn’t in the actual actions, but in his decision to continue doing these rebellious acts knowing that it could cost him his life. Each act he did brushed off a little bit of the Party that had been weighing him down. He finally broke through the Party’s shell when he met Julia.
Since the beginning Winston wasn’t really conscious of what he was doing. Meeting Julia jumpstarted his heroic nature and motivated him to do more. Like all superheroes, they meet a girl that they fall in love with. They vow to keep her safe at all costs and to protect them from harms way. Sadly to say this vow doesn’t always hold. As Winston and Julia spent more time together, going to the countryside, and meeting in dark alleys, they came to the conclusion that they wanted to rebel against the Party. Through their rebellion they wished to make life better for the future generations. Julia acted as Winston’s sidekick, without one another they were powerless. Winston’s love for Julia evolved into Winston cheating on his wife, another crime of the Party. He also bought a room upstairs in an antique store in the prole quarters so that he and Julia would have some privacy and be safe. Now that Winston is unharmed by the Party’s policies, and not in fear, he committed greater felonies against the Party because of the courage that Julia gives him. Winston, as the novel progresses, constantly develops different aspects of a hero. First courage, then love, strength to persevere, determination, and soon, kryptonite.
Like superman, every superhero has a Kryptonite; a substance or weakness that defeats a hero. As the end of the novel approaches, everything Winston has done with and without Julia has led to his capture. His courage and strength have led up to his final moment. Many heroes face a point where they have to decide whether their life is worth giving up for someone else. When captured, Winston endured a great amount of torture and suffering. He endured physical and emotional pain beyond imagination and yet, he still held on to his beliefs. It wasn’t until he was faced with his kryptonite, rats, that he broke down:
“O’Brien picked up a cage and brought it to the near table…they were enormous rats…O’Brien picked up the cage, and, as he did so, pressed something in it. There was a sharp click…O’Brien moved the cage nearer. It was less than a meter from Winston’s face”(285).
The courage and strength Winston showed, up until his defeat, was great. He had almost given his life for Julia and his cause. Although he did not triumph, and the Party remained in power, he completed his goal, like Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, to be something other than what is expected.
Many people believe that heroes always prevail, that they always defeat their enemy: however, that is merely an assumption. Winston was a hero for how he went about his life while everyone passed theirs by. The average man never would have risen against the party. A failure, like the proletarian, were cheated from the beginning, they would never rise up to realize their inner abilities. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they rebel they cannot become conscious” (70). It was because Winston became conscious and rose against the Party, knowing that some day he would throw in the towel because of it, that he was a hero. Not because he failed, but because he was strong, courageous, and worked to make a better society for the future generation to come.
English 10 Honors/Mr. George
Do we see Winston as a hero, failure, or average?
3/19/09
Hero, Failure, or average?
“Hero: a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.”(Google.com).Throughout the course of history the world has been introduced to different kinds of heroes, some who could bend cars with their hands, and others who were normal people fighting for a cause larger than themselves. They were people with courage, strength, and valor, people who would go against what isn’t right. Winston, in George Orwell’s 1984, is a hero, not in the traditional sense with superpowers, but in the more modern sense, as a selfless rebel with a cause. After all, he is only human. Winston is still a hero, even though he did not triumph in the end, because he showed great courage and strength in the events leading up to his near death.
All heroes that ever existed were different from society. Whether they had x-ray vision or the intelligence of the whole world combined, or even a different skin color, heroes have and will always be somewhat set off from the average man and woman. In Orwellian society, Winston is not like the average man or woman. In this society men and women were lured by the Parties ideas to the point where they could do nothing but breathe the Party’s messages and teachings. Those who were taken under the spell of the Party were the average civilians. They were those who worked for the party and thought nothing against it, like O’Brien; a member of the inner Party. There were also those who failed to realize their place in life and absorbed the fear that the Party emitted through waves of discrimination and hate. These are the failures, better known as the proletarian.
Both groups, the average civilians and the proletarian, did not oppose the party and never would. These people served Big Brother as if they were waiters, and mocked those who died because they failed to do the same. This is the underlining difference between Winston and those living in the society around him; that the people in this society worshiped this concept without second thought, and failed to do otherwise, whereas Winston opposed the party by committing small crimes against the Party.
Winston puts on a disguise in order to mask the hatred he broils in his heart against the Party and Big Brother. The disguise he puts on isn’t a suit jacket, or a human identity, but a false expression on his face that indicates no abnormal behavior for the Party to worry about. With the constant monitoring of the people by the Party, Winston can do nothing to rebel against the party without the risk of being captured, but secretly writes in his diary every night until the fear he bears is broken. In the beginning of the novel, Winston is still kept back by the fear of the Party. When he buys the diary he didn’t intend for it to be a heroic act of rebellion, it was just something that he did without thinking. However, as the novel progresses and Winston begins to write daily entries in his journal, his heroism grows larger and larger. The heroism was not in the buying of the diary, or his ability to disguise his hate, but the courage it took to do those actions.
From the beginning of the novel when Winston made a move against the party, he was always a hero even though he didn’t know it. “On impulse he had turned away from the bus stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London…losing himself along unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going” (Orwell 82). Also, when he first bought the diary and wrote the words, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER,” (18) he wasn’t too conscious of the fact that he had done so, but he accepted that he did. Instead of searching for a way to dispose of the diary, he hid it in fear that the thought police would find it and take him. It would take a very significant amount of courage to hide or keep a diary in your possession, knowing that some day, if discovered, it could mean death. As his entries increase, the fear Winston feels for the Party decreases, making his actions and entries more and more courageous. At one point in the novel he takes the risk of strolling through the prole quarter which was an odd thing to do for a man of his social standing. There he tries to answer the question as to whether or not life was better before the revolution or after. Although he did not get the answer he was looking for, or any answer for that matter, these small acts against the party acted as a trial to see how far he would go until he was caught. The heroism wasn’t in the actual actions, but in his decision to continue doing these rebellious acts knowing that it could cost him his life. Each act he did brushed off a little bit of the Party that had been weighing him down. He finally broke through the Party’s shell when he met Julia.
Since the beginning Winston wasn’t really conscious of what he was doing. Meeting Julia jumpstarted his heroic nature and motivated him to do more. Like all superheroes, they meet a girl that they fall in love with. They vow to keep her safe at all costs and to protect them from harms way. Sadly to say this vow doesn’t always hold. As Winston and Julia spent more time together, going to the countryside, and meeting in dark alleys, they came to the conclusion that they wanted to rebel against the Party. Through their rebellion they wished to make life better for the future generations. Julia acted as Winston’s sidekick, without one another they were powerless. Winston’s love for Julia evolved into Winston cheating on his wife, another crime of the Party. He also bought a room upstairs in an antique store in the prole quarters so that he and Julia would have some privacy and be safe. Now that Winston is unharmed by the Party’s policies, and not in fear, he committed greater felonies against the Party because of the courage that Julia gives him. Winston, as the novel progresses, constantly develops different aspects of a hero. First courage, then love, strength to persevere, determination, and soon, kryptonite.
Like superman, every superhero has a Kryptonite; a substance or weakness that defeats a hero. As the end of the novel approaches, everything Winston has done with and without Julia has led to his capture. His courage and strength have led up to his final moment. Many heroes face a point where they have to decide whether their life is worth giving up for someone else. When captured, Winston endured a great amount of torture and suffering. He endured physical and emotional pain beyond imagination and yet, he still held on to his beliefs. It wasn’t until he was faced with his kryptonite, rats, that he broke down:
“O’Brien picked up a cage and brought it to the near table…they were enormous rats…O’Brien picked up the cage, and, as he did so, pressed something in it. There was a sharp click…O’Brien moved the cage nearer. It was less than a meter from Winston’s face”(285).
The courage and strength Winston showed, up until his defeat, was great. He had almost given his life for Julia and his cause. Although he did not triumph, and the Party remained in power, he completed his goal, like Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, to be something other than what is expected.
Many people believe that heroes always prevail, that they always defeat their enemy: however, that is merely an assumption. Winston was a hero for how he went about his life while everyone passed theirs by. The average man never would have risen against the party. A failure, like the proletarian, were cheated from the beginning, they would never rise up to realize their inner abilities. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they rebel they cannot become conscious” (70). It was because Winston became conscious and rose against the Party, knowing that some day he would throw in the towel because of it, that he was a hero. Not because he failed, but because he was strong, courageous, and worked to make a better society for the future generation to come.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
3/12/09
"And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it only was a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself"(292).
This quote is significant because it represents the Party's victory against Julia and Winston. By inflicting pain and fear, the Party was able to break down their will to fight for what they believe and ultimately turn Winston and Julia against one another. by doing this they have forced Winston to see like the Party, that human life isn't valuable and that Big Brother is his only love.
Didactic: instructive.
Torpid: in a dazed manner.
"And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it only was a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself"(292).
This quote is significant because it represents the Party's victory against Julia and Winston. By inflicting pain and fear, the Party was able to break down their will to fight for what they believe and ultimately turn Winston and Julia against one another. by doing this they have forced Winston to see like the Party, that human life isn't valuable and that Big Brother is his only love.
Didactic: instructive.
Torpid: in a dazed manner.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
1984 Part 3 Chapter 3
3/11/09
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever"(267)
This quote is significant because it resembles the parties ultimate power and goal. This relates back to how fear and physical pain are sort of seen as the people's weakness. Fear and physical pain (war, vaporizing) are the two things that keep society in order, under the Parties rule. I think a boot stamping on a human face resembles the Parties power because it induces fear and physical pain into the minds of the people of Oceania. This quote also explains how the party does not care for human life. In order to keep Oceania living in fear they must cause physical pain, which they do to people like Winston, and because there are and as long as there are people like Winston to be "stamped on" the Party will always be seen as all-powerful and the people will always remain afraid.
Solipsism: the theory that the self is all you know to exist.
Abasement: humiliate, to cause to feel shame.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever"(267)
This quote is significant because it resembles the parties ultimate power and goal. This relates back to how fear and physical pain are sort of seen as the people's weakness. Fear and physical pain (war, vaporizing) are the two things that keep society in order, under the Parties rule. I think a boot stamping on a human face resembles the Parties power because it induces fear and physical pain into the minds of the people of Oceania. This quote also explains how the party does not care for human life. In order to keep Oceania living in fear they must cause physical pain, which they do to people like Winston, and because there are and as long as there are people like Winston to be "stamped on" the Party will always be seen as all-powerful and the people will always remain afraid.
Solipsism: the theory that the self is all you know to exist.
Abasement: humiliate, to cause to feel shame.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
1984 Part 3 Chapter 2
3/10/09
"The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy, had come back. O'Brien was a person who could be talked to... O'Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death. It made no difference"(252).
I think this quote is significant because here we see what one of Winston's main goals might have been: to profess his true feelings about the party, whether it be to the party (O'Brien) or to someone else like Julia. I think that now that he has done that and realizes that he is threatened with death, he believes that whichever way the road takes him is neither right or wrong, that he has shared with someone else that he is unique and that unlike many, the party is his sole enemy.
Delude: to be false to and or dishonest with.
Rotund: spherical in shape.
"The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy, had come back. O'Brien was a person who could be talked to... O'Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death. It made no difference"(252).
I think this quote is significant because here we see what one of Winston's main goals might have been: to profess his true feelings about the party, whether it be to the party (O'Brien) or to someone else like Julia. I think that now that he has done that and realizes that he is threatened with death, he believes that whichever way the road takes him is neither right or wrong, that he has shared with someone else that he is unique and that unlike many, the party is his sole enemy.
Delude: to be false to and or dishonest with.
Rotund: spherical in shape.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
1984 part 2 Ch.10-part 3 Ch1
3/5/09
"Never keep it down, thass what i say. Get it up while it's fresh on your stomach, like."
Although this quote may come across as a grouse reference to vomit and throwing up i believe that it can be interpreted in a more sanitary manner. I think that this quote could symbolize the proles beginning to realize their power, "Never keep it down," the proletarian woman says. She could be referring to vomit or the fact that she believes that she should never keep her hope and actions down, and express them freely without fear, after all we don't really know why she was in the cell with Winston, she could have been there for realizing what the party rejects them to, their potential.I think this quote sort of explains how not all proletarian are ignorent, and that this quote, whether it be some horrendous saying for vomiting or a sign of hope that it sort of foreshadows the evolution of the proletarian. They say the proletarian will never realize their potential and that they live in fear of the party, but what if they realized their potential but were too afraid to express it.
Aristocracy: a hereditary form of government, a hereditary ruling class.
Deafening: loud enough to cause hearing loss.
"Never keep it down, thass what i say. Get it up while it's fresh on your stomach, like."
Although this quote may come across as a grouse reference to vomit and throwing up i believe that it can be interpreted in a more sanitary manner. I think that this quote could symbolize the proles beginning to realize their power, "Never keep it down," the proletarian woman says. She could be referring to vomit or the fact that she believes that she should never keep her hope and actions down, and express them freely without fear, after all we don't really know why she was in the cell with Winston, she could have been there for realizing what the party rejects them to, their potential.I think this quote sort of explains how not all proletarian are ignorent, and that this quote, whether it be some horrendous saying for vomiting or a sign of hope that it sort of foreshadows the evolution of the proletarian. They say the proletarian will never realize their potential and that they live in fear of the party, but what if they realized their potential but were too afraid to express it.
Aristocracy: a hereditary form of government, a hereditary ruling class.
Deafening: loud enough to cause hearing loss.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
1984 Ignorence Is Strength
3/4/09
"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference...In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated"(210).
This quote is significance because it relates back to the idea of the proles being blind to their own strength which i believe sums up, "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." This is saying that the proletarian can do anything, or think anything about the Party and get away with it because they are seen as an inferior group to the Party. Where as the Party members can barely even blink an eye without being suspected of something. Due to the proletarian being seen as this inferior group who is blind to their potential, the concept of "ignorance is strength" is explained, because the proletarian are ignorant, they can never rise up and rebel against the party, which is the parties strength; the fact that they are seen as indestructible.
Ignorance: not knowing or uneducated.
Unwearying: showing sustained enthusiastic action.
"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference...In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated"(210).
This quote is significance because it relates back to the idea of the proles being blind to their own strength which i believe sums up, "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." This is saying that the proletarian can do anything, or think anything about the Party and get away with it because they are seen as an inferior group to the Party. Where as the Party members can barely even blink an eye without being suspected of something. Due to the proletarian being seen as this inferior group who is blind to their potential, the concept of "ignorance is strength" is explained, because the proletarian are ignorant, they can never rise up and rebel against the party, which is the parties strength; the fact that they are seen as indestructible.
Ignorance: not knowing or uneducated.
Unwearying: showing sustained enthusiastic action.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
1984 War is Peace
3/3/09
"...war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war,' therefore, has become misleading"(199).
This quote is significant because sort of relates back to when the theory is suggested that the rocket bombs are set off just to keep the people of Oceania living in fear. We learn that the war was never like war today, fighting over land, oil, and for power. We learn that the war is something created by the superpowers to keep society intact and running under their control. Even if there were to be a war for real reason, the superpowers are evenly matched and it would be like starting the cold war all over.
Blissful: completely happy and contented.
Interstellar: between or among stars.
"...war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war,' therefore, has become misleading"(199).
This quote is significant because sort of relates back to when the theory is suggested that the rocket bombs are set off just to keep the people of Oceania living in fear. We learn that the war was never like war today, fighting over land, oil, and for power. We learn that the war is something created by the superpowers to keep society intact and running under their control. Even if there were to be a war for real reason, the superpowers are evenly matched and it would be like starting the cold war all over.
Blissful: completely happy and contented.
Interstellar: between or among stars.
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