1984

His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance. 'What are you in for?' said Winston. 'Thoughtcrime!' said Parsons, almost blubbering. The tone of his voice implied at once a complete admission of could be applied himself (192). In book 3, Winston is in miniluv and he is shocked to see Parsons. This section reveals that Parsons, a devoted party member, had committed a thought crime; his children have turned him in for uttering the phrase "down with Big Brother" in his sleep. This shows that the children are truly messed up in terms of treating Big Brother as some sort of game. The children in 1984 are only loyal to Big Brother and no one else; they only wany to please Big Brother because essentially Big Brother is like a Big Brother to them. Big brother has a "common enemy," their parents, because 1) the children don't seem to care about their parents and 2) Big Br...

In the dream he (Winston)  had remembered his last glimpse of his mother, and within a few moments of waking the cluster of small events surrounding it had all come back. It was a memory that he must have deliberately pushed out of his consciousness over many years. He was not certain of the date, but he could not have been less than ten years olf, possibly twelve, when it had happened (133).  Winston used to have little to no recollection of his dream and it appears that Big Brother is controlling people minds in a sense that they are suppressing the emotions of people because if people have emotions then they are capable of thinking for themselves which is something Big Brother doesn't want. Winston does notice that people seem dull and lack of emotion; people in the party tend to have to relearn what was suppressed. Big Brother is very controlling on what people remember and on what they don't remember and they did not want Winston to remember his mother.  Wi...

Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work; a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On the third day Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department to look at the notice board. One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee, of whom Syme had been one. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before-nothing had been crossed out-but it was one name shorter. It was enough. Syme had ceased to exist; he had never existed (122). Syme was an acquaintance of Winston and was quite the intelligent man. Winston had noticed that his name as removed from the list of members of the Chess Committee and yet no one seems to question his name being off the list. Although, I have to admit that many people could have missed a detail like that but should people really ignore the fact that Syme is gone?  It is as if they have complete faith in Big Brother and their doings; they assume th...

Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket. What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one... The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars. Winston realized that he would have accepted three or even two. This shows how much Winston has slowly grown obsessed with the idea of the old world that he can only vaguely remember. As he works, Winston focuses on the question of whether the past permitted the citizens of Oceania more freedom, or if they are truly living a better life now. His newfound obsession is causing him to take uncertain risks. His quest for his answer about freedom pushes him into a pub among proles, which is considered suspicious behavior. This also involves missing a night at the community center one too many times in a few weeks.

In his book, "1984," George Orwell presents us with a situation where the children's behavior is feared by their parents:  Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel the discipline of the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother[--]it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children (24). Orwell depicts the children as "little savages" that appears to be very unaware of how serious the government of Big Brother actually...