1984 (blog two)

This part of 1984 certainly has some surprising twists and turns. Winston starts to Sneak away from the power of the party instead of just hiding in his house. We learn some things about other characters and the ideas somehow get more depressing.

Winston starts getting careless as far as being vaporized goes. He's walking around the prole's area when he goes to the same place he found the journal at. He buys something else a paper weight that is apparently useless. "The thing was doubly attractive because of it's apparent uselessness," (page 105). To me This seems to show how Winston's idea of good differs from the party's. Winston just thinks it's cool because it's old and useless while the party would think it odd, a reason for suspicion, and well useless.

When Winston leaves the store he is 'caught' by the dark haired girl mentioned earlier in the book. The one that was potentially a member of the thought police.  He thinks of killing her but decides not to. I find it a little disturbing that he so quickly and easily jumps to 'oh man, should I kill her? Will that solve all my problems?' No Winston, no it will not. Luckily for him, he doesn't.

The dark haired girl isn't actually evil. She tells Winston that she loves him and they arrange to meet in a safe place. All in a completely elaborate way of course to escape detection. Although they both hate the party they do it in completely different ways.

Winston hates the government because of the moral wrongness of their power over the people and how it is exercised. This is shown by how concerned he is with the fact that people are being erased, history being rewritten and the endless lies that have the people believing whatever the government wants them to. Julia, the dark haired girl, doesn't really seem to care much for any of that. "Such things did not appear to horrify her." (page168). She seems more interested in the fact that she is absolutely controlled and that she doesn't get to do what she wants to. To me, she seems to be more interested in the actual evading of the party than the reasons for doing it. This shows in the way she is very meticulous and ingenious in planning meetings and  hide-outs.

The new depressing idea for this part is the fact that the only way to 'win' against the government is to not believe in it. It doesn't matter what you say or do. Well that doesn't sound like all too much to hope for. First of all if everything you say or do goes against your beliefs (totally disregarding the fact that I think that is your biggest loss) it will only ever help you, it could only possibly mean something to you. In one day, or more specificly one death, everything that was worth is lost. If you know what you believe stand up and say it before you die. In my opinion, it is totally void otherwise.