Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Chapter 2




        Winston was grateful that the police patrol was not the one who was knocking on the door. It was  his neighbor'a wife who lived on the same floor. Victory mansion is a very old building built in 1930. This building had lots of improvement to do and it always needed to be repair. The lady's name was Mrs. Parson, wife of Tom Parsons. Winston call her Mrs. even though it was preferred to call someone comrade, that was the usual way to call people but this time was an exception.  Mrs. Parson asked him to fix her sink because she could not do it herself since her husband was not at home. When Winston got there he started fixing it. While we was at home Mrs. Parson's children appeared. There was a boy who was around 9 years old and a girl who was around 7 years old. They were accusing Winston of being an Eurasia n spy, and Winston came to the conclusion that they were saying this things because they wanted to see the hanging. The hanging is a place were Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes were hanged in the park which was taking place on that evening. The boy hit Winston in the neck with a catapult and his mother immediately took him to the room.  The telescreen started to make a military voice telling a description of the new armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had been anchored between Iceland and the Foroe Islands. 


         Winston felt bad for Mrs. Parson because nowadays all parents were scare of the children's ferocity  nature. Mr.s parson's children were obsessed with the songs, processions, uniformity, the slogans of the party, big brother,  and they even  worshiped all the party did. It was normal for all kids to be like this since all you see in the telescreen. was war and more about the party and its culture. Such as one he saw while he was sitting in Mrs. Parson's house, the telsecreen was issuing "Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash—. This was just more bad news and a gory description of the annihilation of the Eurasian army. It was all getting worst as if it was not worst enough to have a rocket bomb exploded about twenty to thirty of them a week falling in London. Before Winston went to work he sat and wrote his diary and ponder for the second time, who will read his diary. 




Thursday, October 24, 2013

Chapter 1




The novel 1984 takes place around the life of Winston Smith who is a 39 year old man with varicose ulcer above his right ankle. Winston Smith lives in victory mansion, a very gritty place.  In each floor Winston finds himself with posters that says “Big brother is watching you.”Winston
lives in a society where people don’t have freedom and citizens are always been watched by the police patrol who snoop in people's window. Not only is the police patrol watching the citizens but there are also telescreen in their room. Winston Smith usually turns his back on the telescreen, so, they can't see everything he does and every sound he makes, its all scrutinized by the telscreen. Winston smith lives in Oceania which is the 3rd most populous city, more specifically in London, chief of Airstrip one (islands of Britain and part of Oceania, once known as Britain).

The government of Oceania is divided into four branches. Winston Smith works in the ministry of truth which is responsible for fine arts, news, entertainment, and education. Near the building of ministry of truth you can find the other government offices. The ministry of peace is concerned with war. The third one is the ministry of love which is responsible for maintain law, order and only the official  business can go in because its all surround by guards. The ministry of plenty, is responsible for economic affairs. The official language of Oceania is newspeak and the ministry of truth is minitrue, the ministry of peace is minipax , the ministry of love is miniluv and the last one is miniplenty or ministry of plenty.

Winston Smith went to an ordinary shops ( dealing with free market) even though they are not allowed but the law in this place is not as strict as the others. In the  free market you can find shoelaces and razor blades, but he came here to buy a archaic diary. This is not illegal since there are no laws but if they find you doing something illegal they might give you death sentence or forced you to do labor camp for 25 years. After buying the diary and going home, he had to get ready for the two minute hate. In the two minute hate he found himself with with two familiar people who he has never talked to. A girl who works in the fiction department, she has a freckles, thick hair, and is around 27 years old. Winston hated her because in general he hates pretty and young girls,  especially if they wore a sash  representing junior anti- sex league. In addition, he hated her because  those young and pretty ones  are " swallowers of slogans and amateur spies" .He also found himself with O'Brien, a member of the inner party. He was a burly man, had thick neck, and was humorous.

During the two minute hate the  face of Emmanuel Goldstein appeared,  the enemy of the people. The leader of the party who no one  knows whether he actually exists is " Big Brother". but Emmanuel Goldstein is a also a leader of the party, his teaching are based on treacheries, acts of sabotage, and heresies. At the end of the two minute hate a girl screamed " swine" ! and everyone responded frenzy even Winston himself was doing so. The two minutes hate is a contagious feeling that gives the desire to kill, torture etc. After this scandalous moment, Winston went back to his room. He opened the diary and wrote in an automatic action " down with big brother" filling half a page. What he just did was a crime, and usually people who went against the party will be arrested at night, removed from the registers, their existence is denied and forgotten.

At the end of the chapter,, as soon as Winston Smith heard knocking on his door, he knew that it might be the police to take him and disappear him since he wrote " DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"  which was considered an illegal act.




Party's slogan


"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"