does Winston believe that he is not human? He knows that he is doomed – all that oppose the party are, but why does he believe this to make him inhuman?
5. Page 133-“He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”
I liked the “end was contained in the beginning” here, as it is a clever way of saying how Winston believes himself to be doomed. He believes that from the first moment where he doubted big brother in his mind, it was a slippery slope down to the inevitable end in the ministry of love.
6. (A) Page 123-“… the town had a curiously febrile air”
Febrile- a great deal of nervous excitement/energy.
Could be used in “the school had a febrile air before the football game” or “he was quite febrile, and I couldn’t tell why”
(B) page 143-”without speaking or giving any kind of salutation, Martin went out…”
salutation-a gesture or utterance made as a greeting or acknowledgment of another’s arrival or departure.
Could be used in “he gave me a salutation when i walked in” or “she gave me a salutation in the form of a wave”
Section 7- pages 150 through 175- done
1.page 151 through 164- the banned book by Emmanuel Goldstein uses highly technical terms, which is obvious when looking at the title, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM. Is is not too hard to read, but the true meaning of the sentences take a moment. I know what an oligarchy is for instance, but haven’t used the word in forever.
2.page 174-175-“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.”
This ideal is at the center of Big Brother’s oppression. In normal dictatorships, oppression is
