Vaporization

[livEsiNtheLIGHT]

Hi.
I think the idea of Vaporization is very interesting.
The fact that a government and get rid of anyone they don't like and make it so they never existed.
It 1984 it was completely normal.
At his job, Winston has to constantly change "history" because BB made a reference to a vaporized person. Or an executed person...
Things like this blow my mind, that if someone was vaporized in this novel, you never know what actually happens to them.
They just kinda, disappear. You never see them again and its like they never existed.
Its mind blowing.
Thoughts?

[cafolini]

Hi.
I think the idea of Vaporization is very interesting.
The fact that a government and get rid of anyone they don't like and make it so they never existed.
It 1984 it was completely normal.
At his job, Winston has to constantly change "history" because BB made a reference to a vaporized person. Or an executed person...
Things like this blow my mind, that if someone was vaporized in this novel, you never know what actually happens to them.
They just kinda, disappear. You never see them again and its like they never existed.
Its mind blowing.
Thoughts?

It's not that it never happened. It happened in the Germany of wwii and the Italy of Mussolini to a lesser extent (not much). 1984 was out of date for that year and place.
It happened during the dictatorship of Videla in Argentina and Pinochet in Chile. People vaporize. In Argentina about 30,000.

[OrwellianTiger]

I think the threat of vaporization is one of the most powerful tools that BB has. In 1984 people disappear and go out of existence all of the time. No one seems to say anything because i think they are scared it will happen to them. This method gives BB the power to remove anyone who is too smart or opposes them without resistance. I think thisis quite frightening.

[TherealGO]

I agree with OrwellianTiger. I also think that BB doesn't actually vaporize the person. They simply kill the person. BB doesn't have to do much to convince people that the person never existed. It is just another way for BB to do what ever it wants.

[Goku]

Vaporizing the person simply means that The Party has the person taken out of existence completely. Yes, they do just kill them, but they then proceed to destroy all files of that person, change any history the person is involved in, technically "vaporizing" them. B.B. uses this against everyone in Oceania, because the thought of being vaporized would be the ultimate consequence. IT means that no matter what you ever did, if B.B. wants you gone, everything you've done is changed. I feel like this would instill fear into a person just because it would remove any chance of you making a lasting impression.

[TheBestStudent]

I think the concept of vaporization is very interesting. Completely vaporizing someone from existence is a completely radical thought. When B.B takes the person put of existence the people that knew that person still remembered him but they were convinced that the person never existed. They believed this because B.B had that kind of control over them and that much influence, they are also very scared of B.B.