- Winston writes about his memory with a prole prostitute in his diary
- He says that the prostitute was ugly and repulsive but carries on anyway displaying his desire for a pleasant sexual experience, “When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least. But I went ahead and did it just the same.”
- Winston talks about how the Party’s “undeclared purpose” to “remove all pleasure from the sexual act”
- He also mentions his wife, Katharine. They separated when they realised that they would not have children, as the Party enforced that sex was only meant for reproduction and not pleasure.
Quotes:
- "Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema." – Simile is use to show how the Party has managed to condition people into sexual acts lacking love and pleasure, and making it a ‘duty’ whereby the aim is not only just to reproduce but rather to produce new members for the Party.
- "Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom." – highlights the severity of the Party’s ‘enforcements’ (?) and depicts the strict environment the Party has developed.
Concerns:
- Winston’s repressed sexuality is one of the main reasons to rebel against the Party
- Sex can be portrayed as the ultimate act of individualism and symbolism of physical/emotional pleasure. As the Party turns sex into a ‘duty’, it symbolises them removing individuality from the society.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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· Winston is caught and held in crowded cell consisted of mainly common criminals and few party prisoners. The cell is thought to be The Ministry of Love.
ReplyDelete· Winston is starved and mentally tortured. In the “evil smelling” cell there was no time of day and barely any conversation
· Every movement made was monitored by the four telescreens on each side of the wall.
· As he sits in the cell, he constantly thinks of O’Brien instead of Julia.
· His co-workers Ampleforth is brought into jail for leaving the word god in a poem. He is soon brought to the unknown room of 101
· After a while, Parons, his neighbour has also been caught for thoughtcrime. Although it was his own daughter who turned him over, he tells Winston he is extremely proud of her and feels guilty of his crime. He is soon taken away.
· Winston’s discomfort grows as he watches the other prisoners being forcibly dragged to room 101.
· O’Brien enters the cell, for a moment Winston thinks O’Brien has been caught too but soon realizes he has been betrayed. O’Brien then orders the guards to beat Winston up.
Quotes
Parsons : “It shows I brought her up in the right spirit”
- shows the party’s influence over society even if it’s wrong and how it can destroy the essence of humanity, our emotions/thoughts.
“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain”
- depicts the torment Winston is going through
"Do anything to me! You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die here. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to tenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. 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!"
- shows the horror of room 101 and the lost of humanity during the process of torture
^ Nancy's summary,, PART 3 CHAP1
ReplyDeletesorry guys ill get it post it up properly, but can someone plz invite me to the blog, thank you