Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."(p.311)
When I saw this question to answer, I didn’t have to think for a long time to answer it because I already had my favorite quote in my mind as I read the book. The quote was a big inversion to this plot. Nobody would have known that this is going to happen at last including me, I think. However, I think that’s why I enjoyed reading this book and loved this quote. The quote was very strongest quote to me as a reader. It was so realistic. Winston hated totalitarianism and also including Big Brother. Big Brother was the one who was in charge of the country where Winston was living in. I couldn’t believe that Winston loved Big Brother. This quote was placed in the very last part of the book and I think that surprised me more. I predicted that Winston is going to revenge on him, but he loved him. He changed his mind. He had to change his mind to live. I picked this passage because this passage shows that even though Winston got betrayed from Big Brother and he hated him, he later decides to love Big Brother. I think Winston is so dumb and foolish but at the same time I feel sympathy. This part made me sad because it felt so real. It is us, humans, who can't do anything in front of the people who are stronger than us except for trying to love them. I still don’t want to believe what Winston did at the end of the book.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."(p.311)
When I saw this question to answer, I didn’t have to think for a long time to answer it because I already had my favorite quote in my mind as I read the book. The quote was a big inversion to this plot. Nobody would have known that this is going to happen at last including me, I think. However, I think that’s why I enjoyed reading this book and loved this quote. The quote was very strongest quote to me as a reader. It was so realistic. Winston hated totalitarianism and also including Big Brother. Big Brother was the one who was in charge of the country where Winston was living in. I couldn’t believe that Winston loved Big Brother. This quote was placed in the very last part of the book and I think that surprised me more. I predicted that Winston is going to revenge on him, but he loved him. He changed his mind. He had to change his mind to live. I picked this passage because this passage shows that even though Winston got betrayed from Big Brother and he hated him, he later decides to love Big Brother. I think Winston is so dumb and foolish but at the same time I feel sympathy. This part made me sad because it felt so real. It is us, humans, who can't do anything in front of the people who are stronger than us except for trying to love them. I still don’t want to believe what Winston did at the end of the book.
4 comments:
Hey~~
Oh my gosh, that quote is powerful. When Winston finally gives up his rebel against Big Brother after series of gross torture, I believe (in argument against your intrepertation) that the author was ultimately trying to prove a bigger picture, not just Winston vs. Big Brother. This entire book was based upon conflicting political beliefs.
This passage, I believe, shows that dictatorship does not work against thinkers like Winston and Julia; that such a system cannot work without the most extreme of punishments. Because you have to go to measure of such extremes (as shown in the quote), the author shows invisible suggestions of democracy or capitalism with the finality of the book with that passage.
Awesome job picking the quote!~ :D
Have a nice rest of the break!
oops, i spelled interpretation wrong! sorry~~ :P
I would love to chat to you about this book. Mrs.Mc.
I was REALLY shocked when I read that last sentense too.I actually stayed still even after I completed reading it. What I expected to happen while I reading was Winston's death actually, because if Winston revenge or change the society it is no longer a distopian novel. Yeah, I was disappointed especially when I read 'He loved Big Brother'
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