1984

(Chapter 1 pg. 300) "He thought: 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.'  But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain. Besides, was it possible, when you were actually suffering it, to wish for any reason that your own pain should increase? But that question was not answerable yet. This quote shows how much Winston cares about Julia. He is so caught up in Julia and the affection that he gets from her that he would harm himself. It seems that he would risk his own life for Julia. I think that Winston not having anyone that he cares about as much as he does for Julia right now makes him feel that he has to give up everything for her. I do not think that should be true. In a relationship you shouldn't feel that you have to give your partner everything if you haven't even been to...

(Chapter 8 Pg. 215) " We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it. We want to join it and work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready." This quote from Winston showed how much he wants to rebel. He is willing to put himself and Julia more at  risk  just to keep rebelling against the Party. I think that this shows how much Winston has grown in courage. Winston now is  stating  that he is rebelling against the Party to someone that he  doesn't  even know for sure is against the Party. However, Winston knows for sure that he is against the Party. He stated all of his crimes committed even though nobody asked him to do that. This makes me wo...

(Chapter 3, Pg. 165) "She had had her first love-affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide." This quote stood out to me because it shows Julia's background. A weird part about this is that the Party member was old and Winston is also old and she might be attracted to older men. Also, Julia has been a rebel for a while. I think that she finds every and anyway to rebel against the Party and their rules. This makes her character interesting. If she is looking for every and anyway to rebel against the Party and their rules, does that mean that she only likes Winston because being with him is rebellious? I think that she does not really like him as much as Winston thinks she does. (Chapter 4, Pg. 175) "He wished that they were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and ends for the household. This quote shows how much Winston lik...

(Chapter 7, Pg. 90) "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." This quote stood out to me because Winston wrote it while thinking about the proles. Winston believes that the proles have the ability to overthrow the Party, which he would enjoy because he wants the Party to be overthrown. The problem with this is that the proles don't care and they won't care until after they overthrow the Party. If you've never had anything different, you won't really know how different things can be. I think Winston's perfect world is the proles rebelling, but that won't happen. (Chapter 8, Pg. 127) "At any rate, one question was settled. There was no doubting any longer that the girl was spying on him. She must have followed him here, because it was not credible that by pure chance she should have happened to be walking on the same evening up the same obscure backstreet." ...

(Chapter 3, Pg. 38) "He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and sister had been sacrificed to his own. It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake. The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible." This quote stood out to me because it talks about Winston's background. It took three chapters for us to get to a little bit of Winston's past, and he doesn't even remember it. Usually, close family members play a big part in a person's life. For Winston it's different. All he knows is that they are no longer in his life and that he has to life his life no matter what. This made me th...