1984

"He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong." (68) A very interesting topic. A person who can be seen as a crazy or loony but can just be someone seeing something in a different angle. It depends on the time such as the astronomer Galileo. He was considered a crazy for saying the Earth spun around the Sun, instead of how the common belief at the time of how the Sun spun around the Earth. Because Galileo went against the church he was convicted of heresy and under house arrest for the rest of his life. Galileo conviction seems to parallel the justice system of 1984. In 1984, p...

"Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’ the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy’s eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so. It was a good job it was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston thought." (23) The children seem to believes in the Party. This could be a commentary about how propaganda affects children at young ages. The children are brainwashed, automatically accusing their neighbors of a thought crime calling him a criminal. The children are similar to the people of North Korea who believe their leader is a God. The children of Mrs. Parson and people of North Korea are entranced by their government, and as a result, being controlled the government. Another idea...