chapter 3 part 3

In this chapter we read the continuation of the interrogation between O'Brien and Winston, and no interlude was made. O'Brien divulges that the Goldstein book was written by him, and that everything it said on the book was already known by Winston. While O'Brien was interrogating Winston, he said a wrong answer and the lever of the dial was turn on. Winston said that, “ You are ruling over us for our own good” hoe said feebly. “ you believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves and therefore----. O'Brien found the answer very stupid and explained to Winston the right answer, he says that the party only cares about the power, and they are not interested in the in the goods of others.

Later on in the chapter Winston mentions that the party will never be able to control the stars no matter how much power they have. O'Brien says that they can control something better and that is they mind and how they perceive the stars. For example, if we are only taught at school, and read in books that the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun and stars go around it, we will believe it because that's all we know, we don't have knowledge of another option. And that's an example of how controlling the mind if so powerful. In addition, the party makes the people feel stupefied. O'Brien also explains that the prominent power is not over things but power over  man. They get control of the man by making them suffer through torture since obedience is not enough, they need to be 100% that those people are obeying the party and not themselves. The goal of the party is to tear down the human mind to pieces and put them again together with different shapes chosen by the party. This is like turning the citizens into robots.

Even though O'Brien explains to  Winston  why they are invincible, Winston still says to O'Brien  that some spirit of man will defeat them. O'Brien takes Winston to see himself in the mirror and asks him if he considered to be a man. When Winston sees his reflection, he realizes how feeble he looks, as if he was rotting and falling to pieces. Now, O'Brien asks if he still feels superior to the party.  Winston’s self esteem has descended  and feels half. Winston mentions that he has not betrayed Julia, he still loves her. The fact that he hasn't betrayed Julia reflects the Winston’s pride and has not been completely annihilated. O'Brien gives him credit for being tenacious but sooner or later Winston know that they will shoot him. Winston asks when he will be shoot, but O'Brien says he doesn't have to be so pessimistic since he can get fixed but either way he will be shoot sooner or later. If I were Winston I would be traumatized thinking that in anytime they would shoot me. I wonder why the party doesn't give the chance for the “cured” people to live longer.

Chapter 2 part 3

In this chapter Winston is beaten, tortured and inquisited . O’ Brien intimidates Winston with the dial, used as torturing tool by releasing electric current any time Winston says something insane. O'brien tells Winston the reason why he was torture, the explanation  had nothing to do  with been part of an underground organization, instead it was because he was considered insane. For the party Winston is insane because he recalls events that has never occurred before.

There is a quote in this chapter said by O'brien ( Who controls the present controls the past) here O'brien knows that reality is how the world is while it is controlled by the party. This means that Winston has to mutate how  his mind works by considering facts as insignificant and what the party says as the absolute truth.  Winston in the ministry of love is been cured from all the inaccurate memories he has.  The party makes sure that Winston leaves believing in the party by  asking  him questions such as who is Oceania at war with, how much is 2 plus two. The right answer for two plus two is ( to not know) which was said by Winston for the dial to not go any higher. The reason why the answer is  to not know  is because one day it might be 4 or the next day might be 5 .

We also see how O'brien is an expert using doublethink, when he shows the photograph of Rutherford, Aaronson, and Jones to Winston he says that the photograph never existed even though he had held it in his hands a few seconds ago. Winston says he saw the photograph and it did existed since it was in his memory but that believe has to be annihilated forever.

The philosophy that the party uses is quite extraordinary.  The party does not desire to kill the people but to control their thoughts. In the ancient times, the martyrs were killed because they never changed their religious belief, a situation the martyrs seen as brave for  dying for their believe, something the party doesnt want with their prisoners.  Instead what the party wants is to change their believe and then release them, sending a message to the believer and the public that the party always wins, and never loses.

At the end of the chapter Winston gets to asks questions to O'Brien, Winston asks how Julia was, if big brother existed and if the brotherhood existed. In conclusion, this chapter was all about how physical pain affects the human mind and how the party uses that as a way of manipulating them.

Chapter 1 part 3

Julia and Winston are separated after they were caught by the thought police In Mr.Charrington's shop. Winston was thrown into a cell, but we don't know where Julia is taken yet in this chapter. Winston loses sense of time, he doesn't know if its morning, afternoon, or evening. He is surrounded by four telescreens which is constantly viewing the unexpected movements. Here food is not given to the prisoners and Winston was compelled to take bread crumbs out of his pocket, but was not able to do so since the telescreen announced him to take his hands out of his pockets. A  prole woman came into the cell and started throwing off, she had the last name of “smith” and Winston thought for a moment that she could be his mother. Julia is barely mentioned in this chapter, only that Winston will never betray her although, he doesn't think of her as much, as if he had never loved her.

Winston aims for a razor blade to be sent to him to commit suicide and end the terror that is about to begin. In the cell he meets with some acquaintances such as Parson, and Ampleforth. Parson was denounced by his children but he was not angry with them, he was actually proud of them. Parson believes that he is guilty because he doesn't think that the party would arrest an innocent men. I believe that Parson only believes this way because he admires Big Brother, but the truth is that innocent people do get arrested, and they can't go against big brother’s word because what he says is a fact. The other person that Winston meets is Ampleforth, whose crime was leaving the word “ God” in a Rudyard Kipling translation. Here we know that Big brother goes against religion, and doesn't want religion to be promoted. I believe that Big brother doesn't want religion in his party because he wants to get all the spotlight that religion gets, he wants to be seen as a divine, and adulated by the people and never to be doubt. A skull face man came into the cell and kept saying that he was going to do anything to not go to room 101. The officer didn't changed his mind, the skull man had to be taken to room 101. He even said that he will rather see his wife and his 3 children to get their throats cut off in front of him, but not to take him to room 101. That was the most unpredictable event I had read in this chapter because usually in movies we see that the person would sacrifice for his family but this time is different, he will sacrifice his family to save himself. This tells us that room 101 is the most horrid place a human being can be in; the reason why no one wants to ever go there.

When O'Brien came in into the cell, Winston knew that his hope to get the razor blade was gone. A the end, guard smashes Winston’s elbow, and Winston thinks that “ no one can become a hero in the face of physical pain because it is too much to endure”. I believe that usually heroes are seen as heroes because they endure pain, but we understand that Winston is not that type of person, and would rather not be seen as a hero just to save himself.

Chapter 10 part 2

Winston wakes up and hears the red- armed women singing. Winston watches the women from the window and feels adulation towards her for expressing  freedom in her singing, and realizes that one day the proles will create a better society after they rebel against the party.. The singing of the women is a prevailing symbol in this novel because it shows us that there is nothing more preponderance than freedom.Winston and Julia both know that they will be caught in any time and lose their half freedom forever, so they feel jealous of the proles who are not as oppressed and deprived from freedom by the party.

Winston and Julia say, “We are the dead,” and a voice hidden announced “ You are the dead” . They later realize that there was a telescreen behind the picture of St. Clement’s Church. This tells us that Mr. Charrington was scrutinizing Winston since the beginning, hearing what Julia and Winston had said in that room. In earlier chapter we had seen that Mr. Charrington was not as concern about selling his antique merchandise which a normal salesman will be, and tacitly told Winston some hints about the telescreen, if we go back we see how Mr. Charrington does explain to Winston about the rhyme. The rhyme was the answer but Winston never thought of its insidious purpose of why Mr. Charrington had mentioned it. Winston and Julia are beaten and the paperweight is broken just as Winston life is; small and annihilated. Mr. Charrington enters the room and orders someone to pick up the shatters of the paperweight, later Winston realizes that the voice coming from the telescreen was Mr. Charrington, making him part of the thought police.

I hope in later chapter of part three we will be able to see how the proles rebel against the party, and weather they will be successful or not. I also believe like Winston that the proles are the happiest people  in their society, since they have freedom and are allow to demeanor like they want.  When Winston and Julia say we are the dead they know that the time has come, now they might never see each other again.  I found it surprising when the telescreen was behind the picture of St. Clement’s Church, this shows that Winston trusted on Mr. Charrington so much to had never  doubt about him at all. This also shows us that Julia and Winston were so desperate in finding a place without been watched that they had even forgotten to check for telescreens. From the beginning we found that Mr. Charrington was very friendly person but that  was only a stratagem he used to get Winston’s trust. I wonder what the thought police like Mr. Charrington get in return for giving Winston and Julia.

Chapter 9 part 2

Winston and the members of the party had drudge work since, Oceania’s ally had changed from Eurasia to East Asia. They had to remove all printed evidence of the war of Eurasia. It all started when at a rally, the speaker is forced to change what he was saying in mid- sentence since his assent of Eurasia as an enemy was obsolete.  The posters that people had were going against East Asia (now ally of Oceania), which had to be blamed on Goldstein for sabotaging them. Its amusing how the totalitarianism system can manipulate people and make them believe something so palpable to not be true; they avert the most assumable evidence. I do believe that people do know that history is been changed by the party but they don't want to affirm it because they will be going against the party and ending up losing their life

This chapter was mostly about Winston reading the book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivis which was given by O’Briend. The chapter title’s were the party’s slogans WAR IS PEACE” and“IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.  In this book we get to know that there are three main superpowers that are very alike. The philosophies of those three powers are named different, in Oceanis is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia has a Russian name and in East Asia translates to death worship. Oceania covers America, South America, South of Africa,  Australia, and England. The second superpower is Eurasia which covers mostly Russia, and the third superpower is  East Asia which covers the orient such as  India, Japan, , and China. The book explains the brotherhood philosophy and the conspiracies theories about the war. Those three super power are always fighting among themselves, never to overthrow one another because they want to keep everything on balance. They are always at war, and not to conquer one another but to to “use up the products without raising a general standard of living”. In other words, they don't want to make their citizens wealthy and comfortable, they want to keep everybody oppressed, therefore, the three superpowers can just shift the power to themselves. That way they can preserve the power among the high class, and the middle class keeps fighting for freedom and fraternity and  the lower class ( proles) to always be impoverish.

The two main concern of the party with which the brotherhood does not agree are : how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking  and how to kill several hundred million of people in a second without giving warning. In this society there is no peace time because they always find a way to start war, and having new allies and new enemies.  At the end Goldstein explains that the party’s central tool is the control of history. After Julia and Winston been an hour in bed, Winston was reading the book to Julia, but she falls asleep and later he falls asleep too.

Chapter 8 part 2

Julia and Winston have decided to go to O’Brien’s house together. The house was full of luxury and very elegant. The fact that O’Brien could turn off the telescreen caughts Julia and Winston’s attention, apparently it was something only the inner party members could do for thirty minutes. Martin, O’Brien’s servant came over not as a servant but as a member of the brotherhood. O’Brien explains to Winston that the brotherhood exists, and their leader was Goldstein who also exists. Julia and Winston are finally persuaded to be part of the brotherhood and work for one goal and that is to go against the party. To truly be part of the brotherhood they had to agree to come conditions such as: commit murder, acts of sabotage that can cause deaths of innocent people, corrupt minds of children,  encourage  prostitution , disseminate diseases , lose their identity ( surgery change their face, their movements, the shape of their hands, the colour of  hair—even their voice would be different, and if they were caught they will have to commit suicide. Later on, O’Brien will send the book to Winston in where it explains the nature of society in which they are living and the strategy they will use to destroy it, he will only have two weeks to read it and will be never regret to have join the brotherhood . The brotherhood is a secret organization so, no one knows who is part of the brotherhood, a list is not known by anyone so, when its time to confess, no information could be given.

I believe this has been one of the most thrilling chapter in the book so far, because we finally see Julia and Winston are part of a conspiracy and are ready to even give their life to accomplish it. The brotherhood has so many conditions that can be horrifying to do, such as causing acts of sabotage even though innocent people might be killed, I believe that even though they both hate the party so much, I still think that that they should of not said yes to everything because innocent  people should not pay for all the corruption. I do understand that the purpose of the brotherhood is to make the party unstable but such conditions are so harsh that no human being should accept them. I also found intriguing how the members of the brotherhood could change their identity, that might mean that people like Syme might of had not vanished but instead they might still be alive with a different body. If that is true, then that means that in the world of the brotherhood, there is no way to ever know who is who and more importantly never know who is Goldstein.

In chapter 7 part 2

In chapter 7 part 2 Winston and Julia are in the room above Mr.charrington's shop, there Winston wakes up crying and Julia asks him what was wrong. Winston has always believed that he has murder his mother, but in a dream he finally remembered what actually happened. He tells his dream to Julia. His father had vanished and he was left with his young sister and his mother. They lived in destitute conditions, and most of their time they had to be in underground shelters hiding from air raids, and often without any food. Winston was always hungry just as his mom and his sister but always persistent on getting more food.  His mom sacrificed her food to give him more. One day, Winston stole the chocolate that was supposed to be shared with his sister but he run away. When we went back home, since that day he ran away he never saw his mom or sister ever again. He imagines that she must had been took to a labour camp and his sister must had been adopted just like him. I believe that this dream will wake up other dreams and decode more information about him. Knowing more about the past can risk his life more, he will try to look for his sister or figure out what happened with the people of that time.

Winston also discusses an interesting point, and is that the party has eliminated human feelings, the only people that are “ human” are the proles, but the party members like Julia and Winston,are becoming more “ inhuman” since their desires are restricted, and they can't do what they wish to do. They live in a society where freedom does not exist, they are constantly being watched. They are turning like a robots, been controlled by the party, saying what the party wants to see and what they want them to say. I do agree with Winston that the party is making them “inhuman” now that his way of thinking is changing, I believe that in later chapters he will turn into an insurgent.

chapter 6 part 2

In chapter 6 part 2 Winston and O’Brien met in a corridor and started talking about Newspeak. Here O’Brien praises Winston’s work for using newspeak in his writing, and then says how O’Brien was not the only person who think his writing was marvelous but also Winston’s friend Syme believed the Same. O’Brien had committed a thought crime since he mention an “ unperson” who does not exist anymore. O'Brien invites Winston to his house to see the new edition of the Newspeak dictionary, Winston receives the address in a scrap of paper. Winston knew that this invitation that another purpose, but the scrap of paper haunted him and terrified him. Winston late memorizes the address and throws the paper on the pneumatic tube.

If O’ Brien knew Syme then he might know what happened to him, where and when he disappeared. I also wonder, if O’Brien is creating a group of people who are against the Party to create a revolution since he mentioned Syme, and not caring that his life is at risk. I believe that Winston will go to O’Brien’s house and realize that now he is inextricable and will definitely be a target to be  followed by the thoughtpolice.