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.

Chapter 5 part 2

Winston's friend, Syme has been evaporated.  To make sure Winston instincts were right he went to the notice board of the chess committee in where Syme was a member but  his name was not found as if he had never had existed.

Everyone was very busy for hate week preparations, stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, and more photographs faked. The anthem or the hate song was all made by drums and the telescreen was consistently showing it.  At the same time, rocket bombs were thrown and had killed a large amount of people such as the one that fell on the theater in Stepney, or in the playground were many children were blown to pieces. Winston's and Julia's conspire went on, they have met for six times in Mr. charrington's shop. Winston started talking about all the things that the party does such as, forged documenting, changing history according to their perspective, but Julia was actually falling asleep. This type of knowledge was already known by her, but she found them so boring that she did not mind what the party was doing with history. She was more concern about the present and future. Julia sees the past as something that does not affect her,  since the truth will never be found out, and something that's a waste talking about. In the other hand, Winston has been trying to find more about his past, and its an interesting topic for him. I believe that talking about the past is more interesting for Winston because he is older and half of his memories are about the past which he is trying to bring them back to decode some mysteries in his life. But Julia is a young girl, and she had her memories very clear so, for her there is no need to find out anything. She is more of a girl who looks forward at the present and future, to always find a way to live a happy life breaking the rules and never getting caught, that's her purpose in life. Winston sees life differently, he wants to know, more about how things came to what they are now, a controlled society by an imaginary man who no one knows if he actually exists. ( BIG BROTHER).

Chapter 4 part 2

While visiting  Mr. Charrington's shop Winston realizes that he could meet up with Julia on the little room above the store. Since Julia was busy with the hate week preparations, she was not able to meet with Winston, he felt like she was cheating on him. He even thought how great it would be if he had a family with Julia, here we see that he is drawn to have a serious relationships not knowing how Julia will respond to his request. Finally when Julia meets with Winston in the rented room, Julia offers him sugar, coffee, and bread, something not everyone from the party could eat, only the inner party members had access to this luxurious food. After showing him the food, she decided to surprise Winston by putting make up on. They stayed in the room for the whole evening. Julia, notices a paperweight and Winston says to her that its a passage to the past, he imagines living inside the paperweight with Julia eternally.

As we can see,  Mr. Charrington knows about Julia’s and Winston’s affair, which I believe it might be perilous since he might reported to the thought police. Winston, as a lonely man who almost forgot how it felt when someone gave him affection, he would start wanting Julia for himself which might turn their perfect relationship upside down by Winston becoming more of a controller. In this chapter we also know that Julia knows the song of the St. Clement’s Church, which is such a great coincidence, in that song there might a hidden clue to understand their past, everything before the revolution that neither Julia or Winston have not figured it out. The paperweight is also a prominent symbol, its the world Winston wants for his life, which is to always be beside his girlfriend Julia.