DJ Book 3: Chapters 4-6

"He obeyed the Party, but he sill hated the Party. In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. Now he has 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" (231).

What you can see here is Winston mentally broken. The amount of torture the Party has done to him has reached a level were he cant function like his old self. He has given into the idea that the Party is great that Big Brother is what matters, what he needs to love. He is not to love or obey no one else than Big Brother. That any idea for rebellion should be eliminated from his mind. Even though they broke Winston mentally in his heart he still beliefs whats right. That the Party is bad and so is Big Brother that a change has to happen. Winston finally obeyed the party but just outwardly his spirit is not yet broken. He still beliefs.








Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (236)

This quote is really strong because it shows how much Winston is really broken. For him to sell out Julia like that reminds me of that one guy who didn't want to be taken to Room 101 that he was screaming to so anything but take him to Room 101. He preferred have his family killed right in front of him. Even though in this case Winston is being torture with his worse nightmare, rats. Rats in 1984 I represent them in two ways. Greed/theft: when thinking back to that time when Winston stole chocolate and got shared, Phobia/Petrify: During a scene in which Julia and Winston are together he tells her that he is afraid of rats. It doesn't clearly state why Winston fear them maybe something happened to him when he was younger. Thinking about it maybe Julia betrayed Winston by telling O'Brien about it.

DJ: Book 3 Chapter 1-3

"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish if off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just who it is and i'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and thee children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cute their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" (195)

This words from the old man are really scary and touchy.  Room 101 is a room where the Party attempts to subjects its prisoner into their worst nightmares, phobias, and fear all so they could break them and stay loyal to the Party. Room 101 is located in the Ministry of Love. The funny thing to me is where this room is located but just like any other twisted thing in this book is not much of a surprise. The room is really something scary according to the old man who's been taken to it. He screams out not Room 101 and pleads for him to not be taken. He would rather betray other people for him not to be taken to the room. He would rather die with a bullet or a rope around his neck to not go even a bullet across him. What really shocked me is that how can he offered his own family. Its really wrong how scare the room can be for him to give up his family like that. He even said that he would watch as they kill them right in front of him. I hate what coward he is for even saying such thing. Makes me hate the Party even more because they make a men think that way and how twisted society is.

"I told you,' said O'Brien, 'that if we met again it would be here." (202)

This quote is significant because it talks about that dark place O'Brien told Winston. You can really find out who O'Brien and how he was a fake and how he lie the whole time to try and capture anyone who would rebel against the Party. You can see that the turning off of the telescreen was just something he was able to do because he it part of the Party. O'Brien would've never gone against the Party for one he was in a good stance. He was leaving a wealthy life. You also could see the betrayal from O'Brien and how the "Brotherhood" was a simply trick to fool anyone who dared go against the Party. How it was all part of an act. Also how much the Party has power over everything and how their is no escape.

DJ Book 2: Chapters 7-10

"Winston had woken up with his eyes full of tears...'I dreamt--' he began, and stopped short" (132). 

           This is the start of chapter 7 it starts of with Winston waking up from what it seems either a very emotional dream or scary. Winston dreams about his past, about his family more specific about his mother. Winston's beliefs of his mother death has always been death by his own hands. But his dreams says other wise. I feel that the Party has taken those memories away from him. The reason behind that action might be that the Party doesn't want him to feel any type of strong emotions, but not just him its all its citizens. Having a scenario were you kill your own mother is way stronger than when a person dies. People die all the time, so inserting that idea into Winston will make it easier for the Party to control. It takes its humanity. That is why the proles are a huge threat to the Party. They have their humanity, they have the will to think clearly without anything being erase or substitute. 

"You can turn it off!" he said.

"'Yes," said O'Brien, "we can turn it off. We have the privileges."(140)

In this scene Julia and Winston have gone to who they believe belongs to an organization named the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is a secret, anti-government organization who's belief to be led by Emmanuel Goldstein. The goal of this organization is to expose and bring the Party down to it's feet (or so is believe). Julia and Winston go to O'Brien so they can join the Brotherhood. O'Brien here turns of the telescreen and Julia and Winston are surprised that he did. They are aware that through the telescreen the Party is able to monitor them. When O'Brien turns of the telescreen he gives Winston and Julia yet another reason why they should trust him.

DJ: Book 2 Chapter 3-6

"When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?" (110-111)

This scene Julia is talking to Winston about what the Party wants when sex is involved. Julia explains to Winston about how the Party does not like for its citizen to feel any type of pleasure when having sex. She thinks that when having sex or making love you are wasting energy and not putting enough into what the Party wants which are: Big Brother, Three-Year Plans, Two Minutes Hate and others. Sex does take a lot of energy and also gives you a lot of pleasure. I feel that the Party doesn't want its citizen to feel that happiness because when they do they will realize that they can feel that happiness towards other things not just what the Party wants them to. They feel that by feeling happiness that they will find the truth that they can feel emotions towards other things and by doing that a rebellion will arise and bring their twisted system down.


"'My grandfather, He used to say it to me when I was a little girl. He was vaporized when I was eight--at any rate, he disappeared. I wonder what a lemon was,' she added in consequently,.'I've seen oranges. They're a kind of round yellow fruit with a thick skin.'" (121)

For some reason when reading this I felt really bad for Julia for two reasons. One because when talking about his grandfather being vaporized. It made me feel that she said it like it was nothing just another normal thing to happens in Oceania. Although, I also feel that she started talking about and then changed the topic all of the sudden because she doesn't want Winston to see that side of her, she probably wants to show him that she doesn't have any type of feeling or the damage that the Party has done to her. Reason two why I feel bad for her is because she doesn't know what a lemon is... Makes me feel that the Party got rid off them because lemons and oranges are similar. What I see is that the Party thought that by its citizen looking at the similarity they will do the same among each other or even to the Party and makes them self equal.

DJ Book 1 Chapter 7-8; Book 2 Chapter 1-2

"Freedom if the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that id granted, all else follows" (69).

I found this to be very strong. This quote comes from what Winston wrote in one of his journal entry. The quote is really strong because the meaning of the word freedom is to be able to express ones thoughts in any way through writing or speech. In the novel the member are not able to exercise that freedom and they are being suppress. Not only they are not able to express their freedom of speech but also the freedom of thoughts. Every single person has the right to give their opinion. The quote is self is also strong due to the fact that the statement is true. Four plus four will always be four not three nor any other number. If what the statement is true, then no one can actually argue it. That statement will always be true. The Party does this a lot, it controls its members into thinking bad thing are good for their own selfish interest.

"WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"(87).

This is the Party's official slogan that is in big letters on the pyramid of the Ministry of Truth. When looking at this quote I see something so twisted and sick. War is not peace, freedom is not slavery, and ignorance is not strength. It's all a twisted game that the party plays on its citizens to weaken their way of thinking and make them always think in a constant state of propaganda and fear. By doing so the Party has power over them and forces them to accept even the most illogical ideas. A great example can be the names of the Ministry. How the ones in charge of waging war have the name of Ministry of Peace, the ones in charge of political torture is called Ministry of Love, and the ones who write or rewrite history so it can be in sync with the Party's ideology have the name of Ministry of Truth.

"I love you"(90).

This was found by Winston written on a scrap of paper on top of a batch of work he was about to work on. When he saw this you could read that he was in shock because thinking and even less feeling love was not acceptable in Oceania. It is a threat to the Party they think that with love they will have some type of freedom and won't be able to control its subject. The Party has changed the meaning of love in marriage by taking away the pleasure of sex and the intimacy that the couples had and turn it into something cold as ice. Which in most cases led to separation which was better for the Party.

DJ Book 1 Chapters 2-6

Winston was writing in his diary:

             It was three years ago. It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side street near one of the big railway stations. She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light. She had a young face, painted very thick. It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips. Party women never paint their faces. There was nobody else in the street, and no telescreens. She said two dollars. I --(55)



Winston bought a diary to keep track of his thoughts. He obtain the diary from Mr. Charrington's shop. The reason he bought it was mainly because it was old and very beautiful. Even though he knew that such thing could get him in trouble to a point of him being vaporize. Mainly because it was seen as sick to the mind, but he still did it. Winston writes this entry describing someone, more specific a woman. A woman who in the dark looked very beautiful with her makeup. Later on in the chapter we find that that beautiful woman he payed to dollars to be with was an old woman who was about 50 years of age. Reason why he couldn't think about this situation and had to write about it was because as a Party member the thought sexual instinct was prohibited and the Party wanted to kill or at least minimize it. Even though he when through the struggle of writing that horrible experience at the end he felt the same way he started, sick and full of self-loathing.