1984

Well I just got done reading the book 1984, and it was an intresting book and I enjoyed it, but there are just a few things I felt like discussing and anylyzing that were in the book, though it is not meant to really by a critique, or an argument against the book, just some musings of mine.

To those whom have not yet read the book, I prewarn you that in the following, I will be discussing and giving away some of the things which happend, you may not wish to read if you plan on reading the book and want to be surprised.

First of all the one thing that really annoyed and bothered me, and that I just don't understand. Is when Winstone and Juila were first captured, when they were in the room of the old pawn shop. They knew right then and there that they were dead. That they would be taken away, tourtured and eventurally killed and there was no hope for anything else. So why didn't they at least make it difficult on the Party, if they knew they had nothing left to loose, even if they couldn't acutaly have hope to escape, they should have at least tried to bust some balls, and draw some blood, and do something.

If I ever get in a situation where I am backed up in a corner like that, then I am going to be one savage, rabid, mofo, I do not care if there is whole army surrounding me, I am not going to just hang my head and make thier job easy on them, I am going to give them something to think about, and hurt as many as possible.

The other thing that I noticed, was that most of everything that occured in the book was at least scientifcally plausable, and could be done with the right technology, but then there was that whole telepathy thing just thrown in without much of an explaination, where O'Brian just so happend to know everything the Winston was thinking, and you know maybe that was suppose to be part of the whole "Big Brother" Is wathicn you thing, and even knows what you are thinking and there is no escape, but even if you beleived in the possiblity of telepathy it is not something I do not think that it is something that someone can just say "Hey I am going to be telepahtic"

And lastly just a little something I mused over, as the whole Room 101 where O' Brian says that there is that one thing that everyone finds to be uneurable and they make each person face thier own deepest fears. I just could not help but to wonder, and perhaps part of it is just my way of looking for a way to beat the system as it were, but first of all what if a persons worst fear was of something that simply did not exsist, or was impossible. What if soemones worst nightmare was a product of thier own imgination. Or what if it was something that just was not physically tangeable or replicated. What if it was an eternalized fear not based on something in the outside world. Or something to really contemplate, what if you worse fear, was the very thing that they wished to obtain. What if the one thing that would be most undurable to you, would be to Love the Party.

8:24 AM - 6/3/2007 - post comment

The pawn shop

(EDIT:) Oops, I entitled this comment 'The pawn shop', and I omitted it from the actual comment. It's just that not everybody will put up a fight. Even that is a form of self-preservation.

I think O'Brien made an educated guess. People have many tells that give away what they are thinking, and O'Brien must have known everything about Winston's life, so he could put Winston's tells in context. Part of it must have been bluff, but in an intimidating setting, that doesn't matter.

Also, if someone's worst fear is something entirely made up, thinkpol may still know some real stuff a person fears and use that. If brought on in the right manner, it'll scare the living daylights out of a person anyway.

Edited by dutchboy on 6/5/2007 at 1:56 PM

dutchboy - 5:04 AM - 6/4/2007

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