Robert Walton vs. The Stranger!!

Robert Walton and the Stranger, two very interesting individuals with very unique opinions, but in a way these men are similar, but they are also very different. When Walton and the Stranger first meet, Mr. S, (I am calling the Stranger Mr. S now deal with it) was almost frozen to death looking for someone. This is already a contrast because even though Walton likes adventure and sailed to the North Pole, I am pretty sure he was not crazy enough to go alone, and not figure in rations and etc. Later on we find out how truly weird Mr. S is, as he just gives off that feeling of a crazy guy. The ultimate goal for both seem to be the north pole, but their ultimate goals are different, Mr. S looking for someone, and Walton looking for a passage. Their attitudes are very different, as Mr. S is so full of curiosity and amazement, while Walton, just sits and complains about not having a true friend on the ship. And their situations are completely different, without the luck of Walton finding Mr. S trying to fulfill his lifetime goal of becoming a fudgecicle, Mr. S would be dead, and Walton, well he would still be complaining about not having a friend.

1984, THE ENDING

During the majority of Book three, Winston was tortured for roughly half of the time, the rest was silent whimpering/crying and plot development. Discussing the forms of torture, there was the place where Winston was strapped to the table and stretched to the point of ripping when asked questions. Then there was room 101 where he was strapped down to a chair, and then they put a cage like thing on his head that has a separator with a cage of vicious and hungry giant rats ready to eat his freaking face off, which I still say was one of the freakiest things in the book. I am going off context here, I may like rats, but if there were hungry rats about to eat my face off, yeah I would get a phobia of rats as well. Then there is the end of the book, where everything is reversed. Winston now has left his whole ‘rebellion’ thing in the dust, and now starts to believe in Big Brother and the Party. Now I may personally love the ending, but WTF! Sorry for my harsh lettering but Winston did a complete 360 as a character, I know he was tortured but I have read this book twice and I still don’t get how Winston reaches his final conclusion.

Goldstein's Book, and all teh boring parts that go with it

Goldstein’s book, now that is something I wasn’t expecting. What I mean is that something so lengthy and such an anticipated point in the book and it is just so, boring. Not the entire section, the parts about the Eastasia and Eurasia and their forms of the Party, and how everything sort of started. That was really entertaining because since the beginning of the book I have been wanting to know how this world got this way, and how the rest of the world is working. And I know that was how it was supposed to go, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was trapped within London, and I wasn’t allowed to understand what was going on with the rest of the world. But back to the main topic, the three classes, the inner party, the normal party members, and the proles. Once again we have the caste system, but the big difference here from ‘Brave New World’ is that no one is made smarter or dumber through decanting centers, but the same principles apply. And that principle is that the best are in the Inner Party, and the worst are the Proles. So Winston might not get his wish of the future in the prole’s hands, since they are destined to stay in the dark.

Winston and his Dreams

The entire dream sequence was one big crazy happening, if you know what I mean. When looking back at Winston, and you don’t question the state of his mental health, there is something wrong with you. The whole meeting where there is no darkness dream is quite interesting, because Winston still feels like the person telling him things in his dream is O’Brien, who still seems a bit ludicrous, because he even thought that it was O’Brien before he had a conversation with the guy. So I believe that Winston just might be going crazy, and I wouldn’t be too surprised to see Winston in a padded white cell with him saying, “Don’t worry Julia, everything will be fine!” to himself. And if that is not the case, then some therapist did a great job making him sane. But besides the whole crazy thing, this dream is becoming more and more important to Winston as it shows that maybe something good might happen in the end, but then again who really knows what Winston’s future looks like, you know, besides Orwell.

Foreshadowing and Winston, they just go hand-in-hand

The thing that Winston knows will happen is all thanks to O’Brien. Winston feels like this is fate, and that the only way to find out what will happen in the future, is if he finally finds out O’Brien’s true motives. When Winston says, “I knew sooner or later…” he is of course talking about that sooner or later his path would lead him to the Ministry of Love. The foreshadowing here has been building ever since Winston bought the journal and said, “I know one day I will be arrested by the Thought Police for this” and know that build up has gotten to the point of overflow. Winston knows he will be arrested, and he also knows that there is no way to prevent this because he knows that if he runs he will be captured, if he stops every rebellious act, all that will do is give him a stall at best, so his choice is to plow forward and hope that he will still be alive by the end. O’Brien has been a big question mark since the beginning, so anything goes when it comes to his real motives, all I can surmise is that something big is about to happen.

Julia and Winston, The Best relationship ever?

The relationship between Winston and Julia is one for the ages. If these two weren’t together in ‘1984’ and were together in the real world, everyone would wonder, “What do they actually have in common?” That is the real question here because they are almost polar opposites. Winston wants to down-right rebel against the Party, all Julia wants to do is stick it to the man, in the simplest of terms, and have as much fun as she can. The only conceivable thing that they have in common is that they both are different, and that they both want something more out of the dark, dirty, and passionless world of theirs. But looking at the circumstances, their relationship is rock-solid seeing as all it takes for Winston to change his mind from thinking, “I want to kill her” to, “How can I meet her again?” So when looking at their differences, they truly don’t matter seeing as Winston got what he wanted, a way to rebel, and Julia gets to have some fun out of this entire thing.

1984, the Fourth Post

At the end of this chapter Winston goes on a rant about him hating purity and what-not, and during the entire time I couldn’t help but think back to John in ‘Brave New World’ and his whole argument with Mond. These two statements really do relate because both Winston and John are outcasts in their own respective societies. John is a savage in the world state, and Winston is a Party member who just can’t stand the party anymore. These two really have more in common than just one argument, and that should be very obvious now. Winston really is saying here is that he hates all the superficial lies that he has to deal with, where everything is filtered for the good of the people, but that is just it, it should be the decision of the people on what they believe should be designated correct or not. That is why Winston is so furious, because he is treated like a child, and if he ever, and I mean ever tries to rebel than he will just disappear, and never be heard from again. Its either obey and live, or die.