BOOK 2 CHAPTER 3-6




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Book 2 Chapter 4

"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."
Information about the Syme is not on paper which means it does not exist at all, especially in a historical sense. What ever is not put out into the world will doesn't exist in this society. This can be related to how the world works today. A lot of the time, the things we view and put out on the media is controlled and monitored. The social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all of our likes and the information we post is tracked and monitored. There are also surveillance camera's everywhere that spy on our daily activities. 1984 applies to our lives today.

Book 2 Chapter 3
"I've been at school too, dear... And in the Youth Movement, They rub it into you for years. I dare say it works in a lot of cases. But of course you can never tell: people are such hypocrites."
Women have constantly been taught the importance of remaining pure before marriage at all costs.These teachings are what ties their loyalty to the party and I think that's really unfortunate that they can't break from that. Julia tries does rebellious things in order to go against the Party.


Book 2 Chapter 4

"She knew the whole driveling song by heart, it seemed. Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy […]. It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself […]."

"You can turn round now," said Julia.

 He turned round, and for a second almost failed to recognize her […]. The transformation that had happened was much more surprising than that. She had painted her face.

When Julia puts on makeup, Winston is blown away. It's as if he is looking at another person. In the "Masks of Passion" Steve Carter explains the story of Eros in Greek Mythology to show how much men are distracted by looks. Eros, the problem child of Aphrodite falls for Venus because of her body and looks even though the other two women, Hera and Athena have more to offer intellectually.

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  1. jzamoramiddlecollegeDecember 9, 2017 at 11:48 AM

    I like your first quote because I rarely noticed school being talked about. One thinks that schools will only teach what is good for people or things that they will benefit from in the future. However, we can see that in Oceania, they use schools to think the way the party wants them to think.

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  2. UnknownDecember 10, 2017 at 11:36 PM

    I like how you related the last quote to "Masks of Passion"! The first quote really shows how much control there is in Oceania.

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