1984

Ellis Orozco
Literary Response Answers: Sept. 29,2008
Winston’s world Oceania is a sick place in the sense that the Government has taking complete control over their citizen’s thoughts, rights and opinions. The government plays such a huge influence that they can make things that happened in history be forgotten and have the citizens believe it. The have the ability to take away the rights that we nowadays take for granted. They literally brainwash their citizens into hailing the power of Big Brother whether the people want to or not. They are forced to be cautious of every word they say because it could be recorded by cameras within their houses and then handed over to the thought police. The thought police then come to their houses and take them away, what happens next is not entirely sure just that they “disappear”, that all records of them being there are erased. In a sense this is similar to our world because in 1984 Big Brother shields his citizens from the truth because the papers, books or any other form of media get censored. This is much like nowadays where our media is censored, for example the news is prohibited to publish certain stories based on presidential demand or through people working for the pres. So far it seems as though Winston is a bit of an odd ball. He tends to go against the grain and be the one who is different from the norm. In a sense I admire Winston for having the courage to break the law of trying to keep records of the Big Brother era by means of a diary. On the other hand, I am sickened by the fact that he and O’Brian are at the two minute hate and they instead of speaking out and saying they dislike Big Brother they give in and become one of the people who “worship” Big Brother. So far I dislike the fact that the government officials in 1984 (thought Police, Big Brother) have literally a constant eye on their citizens in their homes, even though most people go too their home for peace, solitude, and privacy, by means of the cameras and recording equipment mounted in the houses. Other than that I am thoroughly enjoying 1984.