1984

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...