1984 Part 2 Quote Analysis by Spencer Hagaman [Student OVHS] https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5 en-us 2017-01-04 20:33:46 UTC 2025-10-12 19:31:08 UTC hello@padlet.com "To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available" (126) schagaman100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145379905 Both Winston and Julia have come to the realization that their relationship will not end happily ever after. They will be discovered and captured, forced to confess and be vaporized apart from one another. This subjection to torture though does not scare them as rather than thinking about their inescapable and uncontrollable future, they continue their love affair.

Orwell compares Winston and Julia's surprising love affair to a very commonly understood body function (breathing), providing better understanding for his audience. Winston and Julia have the option of ending their love affair at any time and thus not be caught and live out their lives alone. However, they feel they can not break their love affair because of the connection they have. They are in complete of lack of control of any part of their lives as Big Brother controls their past and future and instinct controls their present.]]> 2017-01-04 20:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145379905 "Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work!" (149) schagaman100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391215 During the Hate Week celebrations, instead of attacking Eurasia in speeches at rallies, the Inner Party says that Oceania had been at war with Eastasia for as long as anyone could remember. This announcement is a shock to the people but it is swallowed as they freak out and start to tear down all of the Eurasian posters. Everyone blames the Eurasian posters on Goldstein because obviously, they have been at war with Eastasia all these years.

Occam's Razor states that the simplest solution is usually the correct solution. Instead of realizing that the Party had been fighting Eurasia (hence all of the Eurasia posters) and had just switched to fighting Eastasia, the Outer Party is so indoctrinated and brainwashed by Big Brother that they swallow the more complicated and ludicrous idea that it must have been Goldstein who snuck around Airstrip One and graffitied the entire city with Eurasia posters without ]]> 2017-01-04 21:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391215 "I didn't want to say anything in the lane," she went on, "in case there's a mike hidden in there. I don't suppose there is, but there could be. There's always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice. We're all right here." (99) dlcarter100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391284 Julia is afraid to speak to Winston where they were because she was worried that there were planted mic's listening in on their conversation.
If they were to be overheard they would be tortured and relationship would be ruined. The mic shows how uptight they were when it came to surveillance, they had the ability to recognize their voices. She identifies them as "Swine", a pig.

]]> 2017-01-04 21:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391284 "Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always return to equilibrium..." (152). schagaman100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391470 Goldstein's book analyzes the class divisions that have existed since the dawn of time. While they may have changed names and may have been bigger or smaller, but the class structure system has never changed despite revolutions, rebellions, and societal shifts.

According to Emmanuel Goldstein, even in the ancient Babylonian and Egyptian empires, class structure existed. Even in Communist Russia following Vladimir Lenin's February and November Revolutions and Stalin's Purges, class structure prevailed despite the supposed Communist society of equal comrades. Even in Oceania and Airstrip One, "the High, the Middle, and the Low" still exist as the proles (whose backs supposedly the state and the Party are built upon) are treated as inferior by the Inner and Outer Party members. Despite their large numbers, the proles' stupidity and degradation has put them in a weak and subservient position to the Party members.]]> 2017-01-04 21:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145391470 Them, it appeared, meant the Party, and above all the Inner Party, about whom she talked with an open jeering hatred which made Winston feel uneasy, although he knew that they were safe here if they could be safe anywhere. (102) dlcarter100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145392035 Julia spoke with anger about the Party, this made Winston feel worried because they could be listening and he doesn't feel safe even though he is in the safest place he could be. He knew that they were safe but he still had a gut feeling of being scared because of the consequences of being caught.

]]> 2017-01-04 21:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145392035 "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). rjstpierre100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393568 After Winston finds that the girl he believed would cause his death and admits he hates because he can't have her admits she loves him there is a complete change in him. She does more than giving the man a will to live but something to care about, protect, think about, and make him like an operating human in our world. This pulls Winston further away from the connection he had in Oceania and more towards a 21st century man. It's this crazy little thing called love.]]> 2017-01-04 22:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393568 "Not merely the love of one person, just the animal instinct that would tear the party to pieces." (127) mnwelfringer100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393622 Winston and Julia's physical attraction for one another is banned by the Party in order to prevent people from choosing loyalties to another person over their loyalty to the state and big Brother. If this "animal instinct" that is released by love was experienced by all members of the Party, the state of Oceania would crumple and fall.]]> 2017-01-04 22:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393622 "The proles are human beings," he said aloud. "We are not human" (137). jmoss101 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393804 Winston has come to the realization that there is no sense of individuality for the proles and that although they are blinded by their own ignorance, at least they are free, but and he is claiming that he and Julia aren't like them, they don't follow the Party and don't believe in what they do.]]> 2017-01-04 22:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393804 “She only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her." (127) mnwelfringer100 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393891 This represents human nature by showing that people do not care about what happens unless it benefits or hurts them in some way. This is shown by Julia believing in the propaganda because it influences her personally.]]> 2017-01-04 22:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145393891 "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) jmoss101 https://padlet.com/schagaman100/n3nksz3p6di5/wish/145408301 The Party took the basic freedoms away from the people, like their knowledge and language and while making the people that ignorance was their reality, they ended up robbing them of everything materialistic in the world. 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