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05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
A pessimistic book. Hope is shown, and then shown to be false. If the hope lies with the proles, why hadn’t they done anything? They never show a glimpse of an attempt.<br><br>Then Winston hopes for the mind. The Party can do all they want, but they can’t get into the mind. But it is shown they can. They invade everything in life, and then dreams and thoughts also.<br>Pessimistic.<br><br>The relevance of truth? Julia or whoever (Winston’s chick) doesn’t care that planes weren’t invented by the Party. What difference does it make?<br>If you know no different, where is the problem?<br><br>Winston knows, remembers differently. He has a problem with it. Then he pushes his former knowledge from his mind in torture. By the end of the book, he says 2+2=5 without anything but conviction.<br>The ‘truth’ no longer matters. He is okay by all when he has complete faith in the Party and the ‘truth’ they supply.<br>What does it matter?<br>Why pursue truth?<br>