Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What is going on?

"I don't know. Days, weeks, months- I think it's been months." Page 253

This is wild. The Party is playing games with Winston's mind. They are using the lack of light and the lack of knowing time in order to get Winston confused with what is going on in his life. They are attempting to break him down to the point where he must be filled with them (The Party) and nothing else. The element of delusional feeling that Winston encounters leaves him no choice but to be able to surrender to the Party. He will still fight to the end, but now the reader is beginning to think that Winston will not be able to overcome the Party. Orwell will drop more hints throughout the novel to indicate that he will succumb to the Party and not know what he did wrong. He will not remember what he went through and will just blindly follow Big Brother.

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