Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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.
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Interesting, i would have to say that i did find most of goldstien's book to be pretty boring, there were a few interesting bits but for the most part i was like please end. I do agree tho that it was refreshing to hear about countries besides oceania, cause the main point of the book seems to be to keep us trapped in london just like Winston is, the idea is to completely put us in Winston's hopeless place, we see everything through his eyes. As for the caste systems i almost wonder if the outer party really is the middle class because it almost seems like they are no better than the proles if not worse, because at least the proles have their freedom to an extent. They don't have telescreens and they can have relationships. It just almost seems like there is an upper class and a lower class with a large empty gap in between, but i do agree that the proles will always be kept in the dark
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