From Friend to Foe

In the last chapter of book ll in George Orwell's 1984, Mr. Charrington symblizes that as soon as you think you have outsmarted the Party, in reality they are just waiting for you. As Winston and Julia got up to put their clothes on a voice started talking to them, they knew this will be the end of them. The voice was indeed from a telescreen and the room qiuckly filled with men in uniforms in which one was Mr. Charrington. One of the men smashed the coral glass paperweight. Winston had compared this to his life at one piont and now its on the ground shattered which is exactly his life now. Winston thinks "for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police." This is significant because this Mr. Charrington was once a guy that Winston talked with and now all of that has gone away. Winston will never know who is apart of the thought police unless he is being captured, then it doesnt matter if he knows who it is. His "perfect world" is coming to a screeching halt.

Winston and Julias different veiws

The main difference about Julia's and Winston's philosophies about the party are that Julia likes to break the big rules and is not as cautious. Winston on the other hand, likes to break the smaller rules and is a lot more careful about what he does. Throughout the novel, Winston breaks some of the smaller rules such as having sexual intercourse with the prostitute. When Winston stepped into the place they were about to do it, he quoted, "when i saw her in the light she was quite an old women, fifty years old at least. But i went ahead and did it just the same." In my opinion, this meant that Winston just wanted to go against the party and knew he could get away with something. Even though the lady was old and very unattractive, breaking the parties rules and and doing what he believed was more important. Another example is Winston writing in his diary about his beliefs. Knowing that he can't talk down about the party, he knows he can't just keep his feelings inside him.

Julia, also hates the party and believes in breaking its rules. The one big difference is that the rules she is way less cautious and isn't as afraid as Winston is. She believes that since the party is always so focused on people breaking the smaller rules, that she could break the bigger rules and not be caught. For example, Julia is always interested in having fun and never being worried about the party. While with Winston, Julia says, "Oh Rubbish, which would you sooner sleep with me or a skeleton? Don't you enjoy being alive? Dont you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?" The quote shows Julia is worried about the party at all and only cares about the present and not about what could happen to her because of this. This means she isn't worried about being caught.

The birds are singing

The most eventful chapter in the book 1984 is chapter 10 of book 2 because in this chapter Winston and Juilia's safe haven comes crumbling down and have been caught in their shenanigans. Everything was going fine for Julia and Winston then one morning everything came down upon them. This morning the two of them were talking about how perfect the proles would be to be revolt. They watched one of the proles singing and thought "The birds sang, the proles sang, the party did not sing." Which shows how scared the party is of the proles and if they learn about the lies the party is telling them then the party can be in trouble will be taken over. So when the proles sing and the birds sing it means that they are blind to the real world and what is actually happening and think life is great.

Physical existence and its meaning to Winston

Within 1984 Winston is able to see reality as an external thing from himself and something that is tangible in his mind. "When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It needs an act of self-destruction, an effort of the will. You must humble yourself before you can become sane." (Orwell 1984) During the interrogation O'Brian is interrogating Winston and is attempting to convince him that reality does not truly exist and that only the party has the wisdom to determine what reality is. O'Brian also makes an effort to show that Winston's understanding of his existence is something that is destroying him while making him delusional and; therefore, he must submit to the ways of the party to finally become a sane human being and a cogent member in society.

Under the Influence of the Party

In chapter three of book three, O'Brien continues his torture of Winston, but while doing this he reveals key information about the party to Winston. Winston is being brainwashed into believing everything O'Brien says about the party. "The terrible thing about all this, is that when O'Brien would say it he would believe it." Winston is under the impression that O'Brien knows every little detail about the party, and so when he says something, no matter how untrue it really is, Winston believes it. Winston becomes just another pupil under the parties watch while being tortured. He is unable to come up with is own opinion's and is under the influence of anything O'Brien says.

Winstons Reality

In the beginning of Book Three, Chapter One, Winston wakes up in a prison cell with other prisoners just hours after being captured. Winston watched as one prisoner after another was called into the terrifying room 101, where their torture and killing took place for their crimes committed. Since being captured, Winston has not eaten or drinked anything, leaving him in constant hunger pain. When we experience emotional and physical pain in life, sometimes we forget the most important things in life. As we read in this chapter, Winstons love for Julia has no relevance at this time. Winston knew that he would eventually be caught, that his love affair with Julia would soon come to a screeching hault. "You knew this, Winston" said O-Brien. "Don't deceive yourself. You did know it- you have always known it."Winston tried convincing himself that he would get away with it, however, O-Brien talked sense into him in the prison cell stating Winston knew the risk he was taking and the consequences that came with it. As Winston saw people being called into room 101, he saw the terror and panic that took over their bodies. "Ive got a wife and three children... You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not room 101." After hearing this, Winston frantically came to realize how bad room 1o1 truly was. Winston watched one after one enter, knowing what was to come and they helplessly had no choice. Now, it was Winstons turn to wait in panic and terror as he awaited the dreadful moment of being called into room 101.

Who controls the future?

In chapter 2 (part 3), Winston is being tortured and beat down by O'Brien. Winston is "re"- taught how to believe the way that "big brother" wants him to. During this time of torture O'Brien holds up five fingers and says "how many fingers am I holding up," but Winston knows that he must say that there are four fingers because he must believe what the party wants him to believe. This shows that no matter how strong you feel about something, a little bit of pain can make your own opinion go away. This part of the book shows that no matter what you it has to be what the party wants, and they always have to be right. This thought also brings the thought of " whoever controls the past controls the future," this implies that whomever controls what is going on in the world that Winston lives in, will control how it will become in the future. This means that with the party controlling the world and how people think, they will most possibly control the world in the future, which is a very scary thought.