1984

"You asked me once," said O'Brien, "what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world...  Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" In this passage, O'Brian is explaining what is Room 101. It's a torture room that everyone knows is bad. The next quote is Winstons betraying Julia after being confronted with Room 101. Seeing through a psychoanalytic lens, similar to Jung's Room 101 is the Beast. It a terrible place that will hurt and torture one. People are scared of Room 101 and do not want to be in there. A beast is generally something we want to stay away from and if we get close we will get hurt. The whole Ministry of Love is the Underworld a place of complete misery and despair. Even though the Ministry isn't literally under the world, ...

"You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right... 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...  You must humble yourself before you can become sane." What O'Brien said holds some water. Our perception is based on sight and what we believe is our reality. However what we see is something that can easily be distorted. Our opinions and beliefs cloud our judgment of the world and see something when it's really not there. For example, some people see women wearing a hijab reading book and automatically place a negative connotation on her presence. People don't ever see something for its fa...

"They could be tracked down by enquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings: for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable." (167)                                            I interpret this quote as explaining what its like to be human. In the quote, George Orwell said the objective is to stay human. It's possible that humanity is your feeling, something that the party that can't take away. However, I disagree with this quote because I believe that humanity isn't just emotions, it is also keeping a moral compass. Staying true to ...

"As soon as she woke up her demeanour had changed. She became alert and business-like, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home. It seemed natural to leave this to her. She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes" (105-06) Once Julia wakes up to work she puts up a front. She becomes different and fake. Julia is a person who acts differently based on who she's talking to. Julia's portrays only a part of herself to the public to protect herself from vaporization. She can only show her full intentions with Winston. This paragraph gives a commentary on how people usually portray a small part of themselves to the public and only become who they are towards people they're close to. However, in order to become close enough to express someones deep perso...