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1984: Part 2 Assessment by https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797 en-us 2017-12-13 21:59:19 UTC 2025-12-02 17:51:16 UTC hello@padlet.com “it had been announced that Oceania was not at all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally” (148). rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001904 On the sixth day of Hate Week, the Party changes the enemy that the people are supposed to show distrust over. In this communist nation, the people are taught that the Party and Big Brother are always right, so the people don’t question the Party’s claims. The people are the ones that feel at fault when they notice that they are showing hatred towards Eurasian posters. For a brief moment, the people start destroying the “inaccurate” depictions of Eurasia; they then quickly resume to showing pride for their common hate of the new enemy, Eastasia. This sudden change in enemies symbolizes how the Soviet Union quickly changed sides in World War II. While the Soviet Union initially allied with Germany under the Nazi Soviet Pact for their common feeling of isolation from Western capitalism, the USSR eventually joins Britain and the Allies to later fight Japanese expansionism in East Asia. This quick transition of Britain being an enemy to Britain being a friend and Japan being an enemy is representative of the quick transition of Eurasia being an enemy to Eurasia being a friend and Eastasia being an enemy. Orwell creates irony in this allusion by making London, the setting of the 1984, representative of Stalin’s Russia.

As with any piece of history, this quick change in events isn’t depicted in a truthful way by the Party. The Party and, more specifically, Minitrue, don’t mention how the announcement differentiates the past enemies from the present enemies because the people aren’t supposed to know that there are other ideas. If no opposing ideas exist, then nobody has the ability to question the party. The people don’t have their own opinions of fun, but the Party tells them that Hate Week is supposed to be fun, so they believe it without question.

]]> 2017-12-13 22:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001904 "The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference." (136) rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001919 The citizens had their basic freedoms stolen from them by the Party. They are no longer allowed freedom of speech, expression, thought, and press. The Party has complete control over what the citizens are allowed to know and do.

By stripping away these freedoms, the Party is able to keep everyone and everything under their control. The Party's main goal is to prevent independent thought. The Party controls citizens through manipulation of media and fear tactics as well as censorship. The people the Party control live in complete ignorance and are completely dependent on the regime, so much so that they believe that nothing they do matters.

The Party uses communist tactics to control the citizens. The puppet regime uses similar tactics that are comparable to North Korea's methods of controlling people. Both regimes create a sense of nationalism so strong that the citizens do not feel the need to go against them.]]> 2017-12-13 22:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001919 “When his father disappeared, his mother did not show any surprise or any violent grief, but a sudden change came over her. She seemed to have become completely spiritless” (132). rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001938 In midst of air raids, gang violence, machine guns, piles of rubble, and starvation, Winston’s father left their family. Winston recalls this event in Book 2, Chapter 7 when he dreamt of the event. As a result of the separation, Winston’s mom became mindless and emotionless. Winston regrets leaving his family, believing that him leaving the family further caused decline of his mother’s mental health. Winston thinks that he is a murder for killing the emotional health of his mom. He is also enraged that the Party causes this decline of mental health among all of its people. Without Julia, Winston felt in a similar emotionless state due to these actions of the Party.

The Party’s censorship inhibits the ability for the people to remember the past correctly, as all history is rewritten to praise the Party positively, even if the information is false. Winston, despite being brainwashed to believe the history told by the Party, is able to remember his past. While his family was poor and suffering from violence and poverty, they were able to show love and affection towards each other. Ever since the Revolution (a reference to the Bolshevik Revolution), people are forced to be emotionless, as emotion could lead to resistance and defiance to the Party. By continuing his relationship with Julia, Winston yearns for emotion and a sense of love that he once had within his family. However, he has to express his love and emotion in private, as he could be killed if someone of the Thought Police suspects him of unloyalty to the Party (a reference to Stalin’s Purges and The Great Terror).

]]> 2017-12-13 22:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001938 "The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living" (155). rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001977 The purpose of war is to harm and destroy lives and ruin morale. When all resources are being exhausted and everyone is working to fill the need for items. However, the war and destruction balances out the high production rates, thus maintaining the same net impact of the working class.

The Inner Party uses war as a necessary tool because it levels the standard of living. Any totalitarian state is run best when the leaders have full authority and the citizens are living mundane lives full of busy work. The power of the totalitarian government exceeds that of the working class when war is relaying constant destruction on the citizens of Oceania because it limits their ability to hope for triumph and balances any inequalities that may give the people an upper hand to rebel. War is being used as a tactic to consolidate and maintain power, not as something necessary for better lives for Oceania's citizens. Its purpose is to destroy those products made by humans and shatter anything that may make the people more powerful.]]> 2017-12-13 22:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/216001977 "We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready" (140). rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/217892339 Winston and Julia no longer hide their ideas that the Brotherhood is an organization meant to destroy Big Brother and the Party. They want to get involved and are willing to accept any consequences that may arise to prove their loyalty.

Together, Winston and Julia divulge their loyalty to the Brotherhood in the ultimate act of rebellion. They no longer view Big Brother as someone who deserves full authority or the Ingsoc's rules as concrete, but they want to express their devotion to a force greater than themselves for the sake of the people of Oceania. They are sacrificing themselves for the people and the Brotherhood and will do anything that it takes to take the Party down.

]]> 2017-12-22 20:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/217892339 "His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had no impulse to shirk his evening at the center. At the sight of the words, "I love you," the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid," (91). rsmith1011 https://padlet.com/takasuka/4el2r0twp797/wish/217902995 Winston realizes that there is more to life than being afraid of every minor misdemeanor. He is ready to finally face what he has ignored for so long, his own feelings.

This is a significant development for Winston because he was always an avid follower of the Party and all of their rules and regulations. By not fearing punishment and being more willing to take risks, Winston is taking back some of the freedoms that he was previously denied.

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