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Element Analysis (symbol):

In this section Winston recalls a dream about when his mother passed away. I believe this is a symbol for his confusion and anger about the society he lives in. He is mad at himself for being selfish and not caring that his mother somehow gave her life for him. I believe Orwell includes this to show how Winston is confused about the society. An example that comes to mind of this is the movie Inception. It is a movie about people who can enter dreams, and sometimes the project important things into the dream. The main character projects his ex-wife who killed herself. It represents is confusion and pain as the story goes along, just like Winstons dream represents his confusion and anger.



"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

I awoke to the sun streaming across my eyes. It was morning once again and I needed to get up and get ready for work. I ran downstairs to see my mother cooking breakfast.

"Feeling?" She politely replied, and I rolled my eyes.

Over time our society has changed its language into what is known as Newspeak. Each and every year our language gets smaller. I still remember what our language wasn't just watered down to one word answers, but even more so I know Oldspeak. My father before he had passed away had left me some books, famous author's from our past who had been destroyed in our new world. I grew up reading George Orwell and Shakespeare in the dead of night praying to not be caught. It was my greatest anger and frustration to use such mediocre language during the day when I knew what language used to be and what we could mold ourselves into with it.

"Hunger." I stated sitting down at the table beginning to eat my breakfast. "So how has your morning been?"

My mother stared at me with a blank expression on her face. She had no idea what I was talking about. Even if she had remembered some of the words that had become obselete, she still wouldn't understand what I was saying, most of those words had been long since gone. I sometimes forgot myself and began to use Oldspeak, the power of words overcoming me.

Passion, love, hate, pain...I was beginning to feel as obselete as these words. The thought of Newspeak made me feel...//ungood.// I laughed silently to myself. To survive in a world where nothing is of your own I have learned to express my thoughts in words, I have learned to embrace a language instead of destroying it.

Element Analysis (symbol):

On page 81 it states, "Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else follows." This is a symbol for how the party has control over everything. Winston states that someday the party could say that two plus two equals five and no one would question it, how did they even know it was a lie? This shows how much control the party has over society. Another example of this can be found in The Giver. The people who run the society in this book have taken away all individuality, including color and memories of what life used to be. They say it is for the better and no one can argue with them because no one can remember what life was like before. IS THERE AN AXIOM IN THE BOOK SIMILAR TO 2 + 2 = 4?

I really don't know...its been years since I've read that novel and I don't even own it anymore. =(



//"You will always be in the dark. You will receive orders and you will obey them, without knowing why."//

Liar, liar pants on fire Cut me with a metal wire Buyer, buyer beware the price Why should I play so nice?

Writer, writer pen for hire Brings you down to get you higher Fighter, fighter heed this way Knock me out show me the day

Keeper, keeper of lies beware Zip your lips without a care Reaper, reaper love you souls Throw them in and fill the holes

Leader, leader show no fear Keep friends close and foes near Reader, reader life does show From all time high and all time low

Liar, liar pants on fire Cut me up and cue the choir Buyer, buyer beware the price Make a bet and roll the dice.

Element Analysis (symbol):

Once again in this chapter Winston brings up the razor blade after he is arrested. This is a symbol for his escape, a way to escape the world he was put in and all the troubles he has after he is arrested, This reminds me of a song call "Last Resort" by Papa Roach. It is all about killing yourself because you've s[read yourself too thin in life and aren't happy anymore. It's all about finding an escape when things are too stressful and you just aren't happy with your life anymore.



"//When you delude yourself into thinking you see something, you assume that everyone else see's the same thing as you.//"

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/right-brain-v-left-brain/story-e6frf7jo-1111114603615

With this optical illusion, depending on if you are right-brained or left-brained, the woman will spin in a certain direction and because of this you assume that that is the only way she spins, but if you concentrate you can make her spin the opposite way. Like an idea, it can morphed into something different than what you originally perceive, if you know how to do it, and someone with the right skills can even see both ways she spins. But even though someone can change the way she spins they know in their mind that they originally saw her spinning in the other direction. The idea is still there, though lingering, and if left spinning one way long enough a person can even begin to question if she spun the other way at all.

Metaphor: Optical Illusion = Winston's memories

"//Can you not understand that the death of the individual is not death? The Party is immortal.//"

I fell to the ground with gasping breaths, tears stained black with dirt running down my cheeks. He was dead, my father, the last of my family was dead. I had come home from work to find him lying on the couch, cold and motionless. I do not know how long I sat there next to him, crying and begging for him to awake, when suddenly I heard my door fly open. Three men dressed in all black entered the room, and began to remove my father, not even noticing me sitting on the floor. One even stepped on my hand, I was invisible to them. As they carried his body it banged off of our furniture and they even dropped him once. Finally I spoke up,

"Don't you have any respect for the dead? He was the only family I had left." One of the men stopped and looked at me,

"This is not true. You will always have all the family you need. The Party is your family. The Party is your best friend, your husband, and your worst enemy. Do not forget that." With that they disappeared, leaving me behind, like nothing had ever happened.

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Room 101 is a symbol for the fear and power the party has over everyone. It allows them to play mind games and keep everyone in check. It is the final and ultimate symbol of how fear can control people. "You asked me once what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it." This kind of reminds me of the song Fear by Jon Bon Jovi. The song is about being controlled by society and living in fear of the society, but having wanting to run away from that and actually live life, even though it is easier to follow the society.

