Book 3 Chapters 5 & 6: The torture effect

       In book three chapter five O' Brien has Winston in room 101. O' Brien claims that in room 101 they have the worst of the worst which depends on the person and what their biggest fear is. Winston wondering what O' Brien could possibly have to frighten him so much to the point that it is torture is threatened; O' Brien pulls out a cage of hungry vociferous rats and threatens Winston with allowing the rats to eats and gnaw on Winston's face. Knowing from previous times, Winston terrified by rats is almost at breaking point. Winston horrified by the rats being just inches away from his face Winston cracks and screams "do it to Julia" giving out. O' Brien is satisfied with Winston's response to the rats because that betrayal means there is no more private loyalty which leads only to loyalty to the party and Big Brother. 

       In book three chapter six months have passed and Winston is in the Chestnut Tree Cafe where other dismissed party members go to drink victory gin. At this point Winston accepts all of what the party says and all that the party does. Winston remembers a cold bitter day in March of 1985 when he saw Julia again; Julia was stiffened, her physical features where where roughened and the tortured endured had effected her face and more. They had spoken of the mutual betrayal and how torture can impact people to the point of change. They agreed to meet and what not, but they would not continue their relationship. Winston later feels sorrow and cries when he remembers how his life was with his family, his mother and sister. He sits and wonders whether it is true or not and then hears the parties propaganda coming from the telescreen in which now he believes. Memories of the Ministry of Love makes Winston wish to die. Winston looks at the big Image in the telescreen of Big Brother which makes Winston feel joy due to the love he now has for Big Brother. He is happy for achieving victory over the traitor he once was.  

       Everyone has a breaking point that when is found, anything can be taken from that person. Torture can be performed in many ways, some more effective than other but all for the purpose of getting something from the person being tortured. Torture is the use of physical and psychological pain to control the victim or fulfill some needs of the perpetrator. Once somebody is pushed to their breaking point by torture not only can get information out of them but it effects the physiologically from then on. Depending on the extend to which the person was tortured people can be changed as Winston was by O' Brien. According to studies, torture can damage people not only physically but physiologically, which majority of the time leaves permanents scars that change people. Torture can be used as a form to manipulate people due to the physiological damage cause to the individual person.

       This is a boring ending to the book. The party wins and Winston is too weak to even have had a chance to last and succeed in his goal of overthrowing the party with and making the proles see the reality of the party. There is nothing left of Winston to attempt to overthrow or even have the slightest idea of going against the party. Julia is even weaker, from the beginning she had little interest in going against the party and overthrow, she just liked being against the party "from the waist down" as Winston had said. 

Book 3 Chapter 4: The Lie

       Book three chapter four is the climax of the third book. After weeks maybe months of torture the torture eases and Winston begins to gain weight and become stronger. Winston is moved to a more comfortable room and is allowed to write on a small slate. He writes on the slate some of the party slogans: slavery is freedom, two and two make five and even god is power. One night in the middle of a nightmare Winston screams out Julia's name. The guards come for him as O' Brien does too. Winston then realizes his strong and passionate hate for the party. He decided to die hating the party which to him would be a personal victory. Winston looks at O' Brien tells that he hates Big Brother. O' Brien replies that obeying Big Brother is not sufficient, Winston has to learn not just to obey him but to love him. O' Brien then replies to Winston that it is time to go to room 101 and then instructs the guards to take Winston to room 101.
       Living in denial of what one believes never results in anything good. Winston tried to force himself to believe that the party was in the rights and to give in to the party, yet it result in him giving up and deciding to die hating the party. The best one can always do is strive to live life as one desires it. Trying to live life a lie will end bad and will not be accomplished. The easiest way to live is believing what you want and living up to your own expectative. Lies only last so long before sooner or later they are discovered and come to be noticed. No matter how small the lie is in the end of the day it is a lie and lies can only be told so many times before they do not match. Torture made the best of Winston and forced Winston to desire a way out which included lying to stop the pain, but in the end he could not lie and decided to die hating Big Brother.

Book 3 Chapter 3: The Mind

       In book three chapter three Winston is still being tortured. He is told that he is about to start the second stage or part of the three-stage process of integration which consist of learning, understanding and acceptance. O' Brien and Winston begin to go back and forth in an ongoing discussion in which consist of the patties' power. O' Brien claims that the party has a limitless power in which Winston's response is that he nor the party can alter the stars of the universe. O' Brien beats him or tortures him once again. O' Brien claims that all that is important is the control of the human mind in which is already in place and will continue to be. After that, O' Brien forces Winston the see himself in a mirror; seeing himself looking like a 60-years-old with the grayness, emaciation, and dullness made Winston start to cry. O' Brien recognizes that Winston's last strength is to not betray his love to Julia. In the end O' Brien said that it does not matter in the end because regardless everyone gets shot.
       One small part of the chapter states that all that the party needs is ton control the mind and it is already successful in that. It might sound false or some what weird, but it is completely true. As a Chinese proverb says "Sow a thought and reap an act; Sow an act and reap a habit; Sow a habit and reap a character; Sow a character and reap a destiny." The latter Chinese prover captures the power of our thinking and how it can shape someones lives. The thing is that every decision made, every step taken and every action taken is first processed through the brain. The brain is something so small yet is what triggers all of the choices made. The brain controls and triggers all the responses that the body makes along with all the actions that you perform on a daily basis. Therefore if someone can find a way to control what people thing and how understand things, then they can control every action that they take.

Book 3 Chapter 2: The Torture

       In the second chapter of book three, Winston begins to "love" O' Brien and says everything that O' Brien tells him to say, as well as agreeing to believe anything that O' Brien desires hime to believe. Winston a sort of puppet that O' Brien controls to do as he pleases. Winston begins to like O' Brien because he is ceasing the pain to the point where Winston believes that O' Brien is not the reason why he is going through all the pain. O' Brien begins to tell Winston of the party and allows Winston to ask any questions that he desires. Winston asks about Julia, whom O' Brien says betrayed him from the start. He asks about Big Brother and is told that Big Brother does not exist, as he does not exist. The last question Winston asked has to do with room 101 which O' Brien claimed that everyone know what happens in room 101.
       Winston is beginning to feel to confident and is trusting to much in O' Brien. Winston is weak and O' Brien is using that to his advantage to assure to push Winston to his weakest point. Winston is tortured in many way which makes his confess to a long list of crimes. Winston is told by O' Brien that the reason why he is being held and tortures id none other than refusing to accept the party's control. The party want full control of the people and Winston did many crimes which were against those of the party's desire. Winston is being tortured by a back-bone stretching machine that tends to break back bones as well as erase memories and brainwash people. Therefore Winston is being brainwashed to the point where he is becoming a mere puppet to the party and changing his ideas.
       I find this chapter pretty interesting due to the torture. The chapter keeps a good balance of information as well as the details and suspense that is created by the torture. Winston's torture hasn't come to an end, it is just beginning, there is much more left up O' Brien's sleeve.

Book 3 Chapter1: The Cell

       In this chapter, being the beginning of the third book begins with the imprisonment of Winston. In this cell a huge woman questions whether she is Winston's mother. Winston worries that he will get beat by the captor and that he will fail to protect Julia and give her in. A poet os thrown to jail and end up getting pulled out to get sent to room 101 which is a place known for its unspeakable terrors. In this chapter we also learn the Mr. Parson is turned in bye his own children for thought crime. When O' Brien walks in to the cell Winston is surprised, he first thinks that O' Brien got caught too. O' Brien says that Winston has ben an operative doing that crime all along, to which Winston agrees and confesses to. As a result Winston's elbow is smashes by a guard which makes Winston open his eyes to the reality that he won't be a hero in this occasion and will not be able to save Julia.
       Winston is blind to reality. He fell blindly into the belief that O' Brien is a friend of his who has the same beliefs as him. Everyone goes through hard times in which they are blinded by the confusion of why they have to go through those hard times. Winston is just an example of the struggle in which people go through. Winston is going through hard times where he is realizing that he has to confront his consequences for his choices. He want to be a hero and attempt to stay strong to protect Julia but realizes that he won't be able to withstand the physical pain that will be inflicted on him. Winston is in a state of confusion and feels helpless. Winston feel the need to accept and confess his crimes to make it easier for him to withstand the pain.
       I find this chapter overall boring, this chapter focuses mainly on the event going on around Winston in the cell. The chapter would have been much better if it included more detail on the room 101 or on all the pain that Winston is feeling, rather than so much focus on how Winston feels emotionally.

Book 2 Chapter 6: The Encounter

       Winston has been waiting to meet the famous O' Brien for tremendous time now. He has dreamed several time of meeting O' Brien and have an encounter with him. Winston has even spoken to Julia in previous times of his dreams and how he expects his encounter with O' Brien to be. But now, there was O' Brien standing "face to face, and it seemed that his only impulse was to run away. His heart bounded violently. He would have been incapable of speaking. O' Brien, however, had continued forward in the same movement, laying a friendly hand for a moment on Winston's arm, so that the two of them were walking side by side. He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members." Winston realized that he was risking a lot by talking and having this encounter with O' Brien. Winston was perfectly conscious that his action would lead him most like to death. Winston had a good long conversation with O' Brien. O' Brien seemed to play a role, a role of undercover party member- he acted as to be against the party as Winston but cared deeply about the party and was eager to help the party. I believe that with the encounter that Winston is having with O' Brien specially by taking an address too his home, Winston is digging his own grave. As I said in the latter O' Brien gave Winston a paper with his address to go get a dictionary - vocabulary the power to knowledge which the government wanted to restrict. But what a coincidence that the paper with the address was given to Winston in front of the telescreens where it was easily visible yet nothing occurred. Winston though was conscious what he was doing as clearly stated "The end was contained in the beginning. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. Even while he was speaking to O' Brien, when the meaning of the words had sunk in, a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him." Winston's admiration and wish for his encounter with O' Brien was stronger than that of his knowledge of the consequences that his action were going to bring upon him. He decides to accept his fate of death due to his thrill of having an encounter with O' Brien. Winston knew this though since the day he first wrote in his diary- his days of thought crime and rebellion against the party had begun.

Book 2 Chapter 5: The Room

       Winston is becoming increasingly obsessed with the room that he has rented as personal use with Julia, more like a love nest. Winston is beginning to feel a desperate need for Julia. Winston even dreams of Katherine dying, that would allow him to marry Julia and have happy life along side with Julia. They see each other and meet in the room laying side by side on a stripped bed under the open window, naked for the sake of coolness. They do not mind all the filth, the rat that had came out or even all the bugs because their desire to have sex or make love was greater than anything. They begin talking about the brotherhood, and Winston makes a comment about his strong connection with he shares with O' Brien and Julia's answer surprises Winston somewhat. 'Not much, perhaps. But it was evidence. It might have planted a few doubts here and there, supposing that I'd dared to show it to anybody. I don't imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there -- small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.'  'I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.'  'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. Julia really had no understanding of what Winston was trying to explain to her. She was very confused on the point of the story and why Winston was telling her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers. 'Winston had dropped his habit of drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the need for it. He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped.' All of the sex with Julia and his 'love' for Julia had Winston changing. They where beginning to doubt that they would get caught as stated, 'Now that they had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time.' This confidence that they where beginning to have as a result of the secureness that they felt shows a weakness, a vulnerable point where due to there unawareness they could get caught. This foreshadows in a way that they willl get caught and will go through a series of issues.

Book 2 Chapter 4: The Room

       At this point in the book Winston and Julia have seen each other and had affairs several times. They have been busy with the preparations for Hate Week and have not seen each other for a bit now. Winston has rented a small room above Mr. Charrington’s shop, for the single reason of using it as a love nest for himself and Julia. He walks around in the room thinking and desperate for some time with Julia who has not been able to do nothing due to her period as well. Winston at this point wishes to have a more settle life with Julia, like that of a married couple. In the room they see a rat which end up scaring Winston more than Julia due to Winston's fear of rats which is greater than his fear for anything else. After that Julia sees a paper weight in which she asks about. Winston claims that it is a link to the past, and the chapter concludes with him looking at the paper weight imagining him living with Julia in an eternal stasis.
       I believe that this room is going to lead Julia and Winston to have issues and end up badly. I believe this because the room is located on top of a shop and in the beginning of the chapter there is a red armed women. Winston is beginning to give great importance to the room for it is his love nest to use with Julia. Winston  is starting to feel a necessity to have affairs with Julia as shown through his action and emotions. Winston feels a desperate need to be with Julia and to corrupt and a go against the party. They are beginning to get too comfortable with having affairs right under the parties noses. The more comfortable they are the more reckless and careless they are leaving them an easier target for the thought police to catch.
       Winston is letting his desire for affairs and time with Julia let his guard down. In the beginning of the chapter it says that Winston "was violently angry. During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed. At the beginning there had been little true sensuality in it. Their first love-making had been simply an act of the will. But after the second time it was different. The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to. When she said that she could not come, he had the feeling that she was cheating him. But just at this moment the crowd pressed them together and their hands accidentally met. She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection. Julia on the other hand tries more to assure that they are not to get caught.

Clandestine Affairs

       In the book of 1984 the greatest affair is between Winston and Julia. Many people claim that between Julia and Winston there is a relationship based on love because of how many times they claimed their love and the risk they shared to see each other. The reality is that their so called "love" is based on their idea of going against the government. Winston and Julia's relationship is based on the single purpose of going against the party. This is seen in book 2 chapter 2 in the following text:

       'Have you done this before?' 

       'Of course. Hundreds of times -- well scores of times anyway.' 

       'With Party members.' 

       'Yes, always with Party members.' 

       'With members of the Inner Party?' 

       'Not with those swine, no. But there's plenty that would if they got half a chance. They're not so holy as they make out.' 

        'His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it'

       The latter shoes Winston's "love" for Julia is based on how many affairs she has had and how corrupt she is. The more men she has slept with, the more corrupt people exist that go against the party. That makes Winston happy knowing that he is not the only one who disagrees and goes against the party. Along with Winston's perspective, Julia explained to Winston that the reason why she gave him the letter was because she saw the difference in his face that gave away he was against the party and she loved that. Their affair depended on how far they could get away with going against the party. They wanted to corrupt as many people possible, not worrying about the consequences. All that led to the corruption of the people was good and made their "love" grow greater.

Book 2 Chapter 2: The deed

       In chapter two of book two Winston and the dark haired girl, who says her name is Julia, meet in the country where together they head out in to the woods. They share some chocolate and tell each other how they felt about each other. In the woods Julia tears off her Junior Anti-Sex League sash and they make love which he finds identical to the sexual encounter in which he had dreamed of. Julia had done this before in multiple occasions which to Winston is a form of relief, since this means that he is not the only person in the society committing thought crime. Winston compares to society as a whole when it comes to the idea his form of relief. Many people look at others faults to cover their own faults as a way of relief to make them feel better about their mistakes. In multiple occasions that can lead too further issues of much greater consequences. Sometimes one commits so many "mistakes" that they accumulate to the point where there is no way to hide them. In that case one is open for everyone to see all of your wrongs. Winston is committing all of these wrongs which keep adding up making him a greater thought criminal. If the party finds out of these thing Winston could cause issues not only for himself but for others who are involved. No matter how safe and how much you cover the wrong doings there is a point where someone has to know. Winston is little by little turning himself in to the thought police though all of the wrongs he is committing. The idea of doing something wrong makes one guilty and insecure as Winston is with all the cameras and microphones that the party has. Guilt and insecurities lead to mistakes and mistakes made are tracks left for the thought police to trace to come to the conclusion of who is doing wrong. Winston in this chapter is only sure that he is not the only one committing thought crime and that Julia is not a spy, but on the other hand he is insecure about how things could go by doing the things that he is doing. When someone feels comfortable with the wrongs that one is doing you tend to keep doing it; it is very likely for Winston to meet with Julia again or for this event to come back to haunt him. Winston and Julia see that having sex is the ultimate way to strike the party in their own way. The Party has such great control over everything, that Winston can think of nothing, not even sex, except whether it supports or harms the Party in any way.

Book 2 Chapter 1: The desire

       In this chapter Winston believes at first that the dark haired girl is a spy until she gives him a paper or a note saying that she loves him. From that moment forward he began questioning himself about whether she was a spy or she was actually interested in him. After a couple days they are able to sit at a table together and make plans to meet. They struggle some to meed due to the telescreens in which they hid from. They were only able to hold hands but planned to see each other in a different place. Even though what they were  doing what against the law and several would consider impossible it is all a matter of desire. When you want or desire something no matter what people categorize it whether is easy, hard, possible or impossible it is just a matter how much you actually desire it. The more you desire the more you will be willing to put at stake to accomplish it. Anything and everything is possible it is just a matter of one self and how much you are willing to risk and push to accomplish. Everyone tends to give up or not even try certain things due to lack of desire not because they are actually impossible. the only reason that people tend to not try is because of their lack in confidence; lack of knowledge scares people into giving up before even starting something. A good example of this is Winston with the dark haired girl. Winston did not know whether the dark haired girl was a spy or not making him uncertain on how to respond and act in front of her. When he finally found out what she felt and that she was not a spy, he immediately felt a powerful desire to live as he was lost without purpose of living. Their desire for each other led them to go against the law and plan to see each other and spend time together. They knew that their love was something "impossible" due to the law, but that did not mean that they had to give up. They did the complete opposite, they tried planning to meet not quitting, because they were willing to risk all for their love. The latter shows that nothing is really impossible it is just a matter of how much you willing to risk for what you desire. As Barack Obama said "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." Keep pushing and if you desire something at a great level you will accomplish it no matter how hard or impossible it is.

Book 1 Chapter 7: Interpretation of reality

            In chapter seven Winston comes to the conclusion that the part can not be stopped from the within. The thought police is to strong even for the brotherhood itself. The proles are those outside of the party which make up the majority of the population, an 85 percent of the population. Due to the form of government everyone has been tricked in to believing a lie. Everyone believes that the party has increased the literacy rate, reduced the infant mortality rate, and given everyone better food and shelter. All of the latter is false everyone lives in poverty and fear of being falsely incriminated of committing a thought crime. Majority of the population lives by a set of rules that enslave them and make them follow a group which lies to them. This is easily understood by the readers of the book that know that the party has re-written history so that no issues come up, this way everyone is raised to believe a false history. Events such as this occur now a day as well. Maybe not to the same extremity but similar. As the project we have been doing in our english class on communism and socialism along with ingsoc are examples of governments in which the majority of the population is controlled by one person or a small group and put full faith in to their leadership and follow them despite all of the problems that follow later. A prime example of this is Cuba, Cuba is ruled by Raul Castro at the moment who makes all the decisions. Sadly due to the latter Cuba in a bad economical situation where everyone lives in poverty and due to the form in which everyone is raised things do not change. If the population stood all together against the group as Winston believed or individual in this case the people would be able to change and overtake. Even though some people argue that doing that it would leave a population with no leadership which would cause issues and conflicts, I personally believe that it could not be worst than living in poverty and fear with no real freedom. We are all tricked in to believing that the leadership to the country in which you live in makes the best choices for you, but sadly thats not always true, the seek benefits for the country specially for themselves. The people of a country should have a voice and allowed to live freely. Every form of government has negative parts to it, every form of government lies and makes decisions to benefit themselves despite whatever effect it really has on the people who live in that country. Why live and fear and with no freedom when people can stand for themselves and truly be free.

Communism V. Socialism V. Ingsoc

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Character analysis: Tom Parsons vs Winston Smith

Tom Parsons
             Tom Parsons is Winston's neighbor, part of the working class. Mr. Parsons is a "sweaty, fat, pink-faced and fair-haired" person who Winston despises for his non-questioning acceptance of all that he is told to do by the party. Parsons has two kids and a wife of which the two kids are like spies that belong and work for the government in finding those who commit thought crime. Tom is not very smart but if there is one thing he is sure about and believes in fully is in the party claims and its doctrine. Parsons is active in his community groups and is Winston's coworker.

Winston Smith
             Winston Smith is a 39 year old character in the book named after Winston Churchill withe the common last name of Smith. He is very brave and loving character who takes plenty of risk with the party despite the dangers. Winston risk getting caught by the party plenty of occasions: with his "diary" or journal, with his love for Julia and the rent of a junk room above a junk shop to use to spent lovely time with Julia. The latter makes Winston a brave man and full of love taking a risk so great to be able to spend it with Julia. Winston works with the Ministry of Truth and despite his belief in the party at first comes to open his eyes and realize all the lies the party has as a government on it people. His job in the Ministry of Truth is to correct so called "errors" to trick the people into living an enormous lie. There are time when Winston has felt lonely as a cause of the knowledge of reality as expressed in the following: "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?"

C&C
            Tom Parson is a "foil character" to Winston Smith. A foil character is a character that exhibits opposite or conflicting traits to another character is called a foil. When an author uses a foil, they want to make sure that the reader is picking up on important attributes and characteristics of a main character. In this case Tom Parsons and Winston Smith have several differences but share a common fait as well as certain ambitions. Despite the physical features, Winston is more agile and smarter, he is able to realize and see the reality of what the party is doing while Tom is blind to all of the latter as well as anything in general. Tom belief fully in the party while Winston does not. On the other hand though The both are ambitious to stay on faithful to their beliefs. They share a common fait of incarcerations although for different reasons. In the end both characters share the characteristic of denial. They know that they are at risk of having issues with the party one for his secrets and the other for his kids, but both life a life in denial of a change they maintain their life the way it is which lead them to the incarcerated fait.

Book 1 Chapter 4: Totalitarianism and its reality control

            A process called "rectifying" is used by the Totalitarian government in chapter four. The process of "rectifying" is called so to hide all of the barbaric practices of the government. The government hides, modifies, and adjusts everything before it can may be released to the people. This way the government seems as if it is always correct and never had any issues with the people. Through this the language is deteriorated which Orwell seemed to relate to the decay of moral values. By controlling all of what they read, see and speak the government can control how the people think and how they will respond to the government. Jobs in the process of "rectifying" consisted of eliminating the names and records of those whom have been vaporized, altering poems to make them comply with party ideology, even propaganda as well as the creation of pornography to entertain and distract the lower classes to maintain them unaware that they are victims of oppression. The party does the later to assure that the lower class never becomes aware of how poor and powerless they are; tis way they can prevent the lower class from reacting in any way that may cause further problems for the government. There are many ways in which the government assures that people do not realize they position in comparison to the government such as drinking, gambling, and even fornication. Winston's job in the process of "rectifying" consist of rewriting articles of which in this occasion is about an inner party member whom was vaporized named Comrade Withers. The article spoke greatly of Comrade Withers on his loyalty as a party member, but that was unacceptable because he was executed as an enemy of the party. Therefore Winston made up a name, Comrade Ogilvy, who replaced Comrade Withers. Comrade Ogilvy is an ideal party member who apposes sex, is suspicious of everyone and devotes his live to hunting down thought criminals. Winston realizes though that someone else is covering the same article as him and that his story will be the version that becomes recorded in history. This shows how serious the government takes the process of "rectifying" and how important it is to them. In most marxist governments this is how the government functions. In order to control everything they must make themselves seen as superiors and make the people not see how powerless and poor they are as a result of this form of government. Sadly in todays society not only marxist governments seek to control what media is released or how much knowledge the people have, this occurs in the majority if not all forms of government in most countries if not every single country.

Book 1 Chapter 3: Reality

             Part of this chapter has to do with Winston and his dreams. One of his dreams had to do with a memory of his family. Winston dreams that his mothers dies about twenty years back in a political purge by sinking in a boat. He feels responsible for the disappearance of his mother in a way. In some way that has to do with guilt. Even though he is unsure of what really happened in a way if that is what happened guilt makes someone repeat the mistakes they have done in their own head. Guilt is something so strong that it can tear you down and eat you up. The second dream had to do with a woman whom cause the annihilation of a whole party. This shows that a singular persons actions can and most likely will impact others; no matter how small something done wrong it will always impact others as well. This relates to the second part of the third chapter which has to do with government. As a result of several individuals actions all of society has to pay a price. The government seeks to have control, every government does. In the second part of the chapter as Winston thinks of of countries relationships he comes across the idea of how the records have been changed by the government. He places an example of how records show that stories of Big Brother began in the 1930s but reality is that nobody had heard of the party leader Big Brother before the 1960s. This is a big issues and despite the little knowledge most of society has it is true that the government bends the information that comes out for the public society to know. The government desires power and for them to be able to maintain the power they need to assure that the information that goes out to public society wont cause issues. A prime example of this in todays society is that of scientists. Scientist have to submit their research before publishing it to the government for approval for the publishing. It is claimed that the reason in which scientist have to submit their work to the government is to assure it is correct. Reality is that the government needs to assure that what  goes out for public society does not ruin their reputation and cause issues that the government wont be able to resolve in the future. Society is blinded and are raised in accordance to what the government wants it to believe. The reality is hidden and children are raised to believe a lie and are blinded to the reality. In the end society is merely puppets in which the government controls, do not allow the government to blind you.

Book 1 Chapter 2: The hiding

              In chapter two Winston hears a sudden knock on the door. He becomes anxious because of his writings in the "diary" and opens the door fearfully thinking it was the Thought Police. This brings to mind how humanity is. Every person has a moment when they do something knowing it is wrong and shouldn't be done. As time passes society tends to do worst and worst. Children learn from what they see on a daily basis and when elders do what is wrong specially in from of children they tend to do so when they are older. The latter also relates back to chapter two when Mrs.Parsons kids follow societies obstruct ideas of what makes the world a better place. The government in the book has a monthly public hanging in which the Mrs.Parsons was unable to take the kids making the kids agitated. Every single person has something that they hide from society. As evidence a great example consist in social media; everyone has some sort of social media account. In their social media account they publish personal event  and more for the public to know, but yet there are still passwords to hide what is not put out for the rest of society. As Gleen Greenwald (in a ted talk) said in a to those who believed society should not have a problem with being supervised, "send me your passwords to all your emails, social media and etc. for met to see what you have." Not a single person followed up and sent the email with the latter information. What does that have to prove? Every person has something in which they do not want other to find out. Winston felt the same way, he did not want the Thought Police to fine his "diary". He took precaution to assure if anyone opened it by putting some dust in a corner to know if anyone opened the "diary", similar to society. Every person takes precaution when they hide something to assure that it is not discovered or not attainable by anybody else. Winston knew he was a deadman the moment he wrote of his ideas as clearly stated in the end of the chapter. The reason in which Winston feared was because of the way in which the government acted as a consequence of such actions; he feared he would be considered a political enemy. For those who believe that the government should be allowed to supervise society let me ask you the following. Do you have anything to hide? Are you sure that nothing of what you have will bring you negative consequences? If you truly believe so and your answers are yes, then you are willing to render all to be a puppet of the government.

The only way to prepare for peace is to be prepared for war.

            I agree, to prepare for peace on needs to be prepared for war. Despite the desire of peace, it is impossible for a country to be at peace for an eternity; at some point every country has had several occasion in which peace is but an aspiration. A country that is not prepared for war is a weak country. Reality is that there is always going to be at least one country desiring to control more land and who better than those who are not prepared and are not expecting war to occur. A country that is prepared for war shoes power which therefore creates fear in other countries. When a country fears another rarely will it attack that country. War is inevitable, humanity tends to envy and desire what others have despite whether it is land or just something small. Whether you expect it or not war will occur at some point, why be an open target when you can prepare for war and allow the people in that country to regain peace despite the possibility of it being temporary. This can be related to an even more common saying "always be prepared for the worst." Peace is not eternal what so ever; peace in a country is not determined singularly by war but within its own boarders. Peace can be altered whether it is because of a country declaring war or even the countries own people. The possibilities of a country staying at peace are very small. being prepared for war means not only war against other countries but being prepared to settle any issues within ones own country. This related back to the saying "always be prepared for the worst" because peace can be seized in multiple ways. War can bring peace. One example of a war that brought peace is World War 2. During World War 2 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and America responded with nuclear bombs; after all the chaos and blood shed, Japan and America conserved peace through trade. The latter shows that war can bring peace in many ways. History has a tendency to prove its point, in this case that point is that peace can not be preserved without war or some sort of conflict. Peace is but a momentary object in which a country can hold. Every country has gone through some form of war to obtain peace afterward. The reason why peace is not possible without being prepared for war is due to society itself; society has illogical motivations due to illogical desires. As long as society desires what others have there will always be some sort of conflict whether it is within people, cities, countries or even possibly the whole world. Another example would be the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was a very strong empire that conquered plenty of land. The only way in which the Roman Empire maintained their empire in peace was through their strong army. The Roman empires army maintained peace within its boarders by assuring tranquility between the people and maintained peace out of its boarders due to their strength. The prepared army of the Romans caused fears in others which allowed the stability of peace for the Roman Empire. As stated in the dictionary the definition of peace is "an agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism." Due to the latter definition of peace, what do you say? Do you agree that being prepared for war is the only way to guarantee peace or is peace possible without any for of war?