1984: Post 3

In this book the party has many ways of controlling people. One of these ways is when they change the past. The party has programs in place filled with workers who's job is to erase and create people, change around news stories, and anything else to do with history. The point to changing around history for the party is so they seem completely right in what they do. The people who work for this organization create people in order to move around historical stories for the party to look good. In my opinion I think the party's idea of changing history is morally awful. It is horrible for them to create or destroy people just for the sake of saving their own butts. Then again a lot of things that the party does are morally bad. It would be really sad to live in this world and I actually feel really bad for the characters in this book despite the fact that they are in fact characters in a book.

1984: Post 2

In the world of 1984 it is illegal for people to write. Winston rebels against this by keeping a journal of his personal thoughts. The Party changed around history before the 1930s and took out anything that might make governments look bad. As a method of getting rid of all that history, they have to destroy all personal accounts or writings about those historical moments. I think this is the reason that writing is made illegal. If someone were to write, then future generations would have a link to the past, which The Party could change if they wish it to be. Another reason that writing is illegal is because writing is a way for the individual to express themselves. The party wants to control everything and everyone in the world and people expressing themselves goes completely against that. Syme's job of destroying language relates to Winston's inability to write in his journal because they are both being held back in their ability to express themselves. Syme has to destroy everyone's thoughts that have been written down, while Winston is restricted from writing his thoughts to begin with. There are many other ways that The Party and Big Brother restrict people's lives and I'm sure more will come up as the book goes on.

1984: Post 1

From the beginning of this book I am given a view of dark and depressing living conditions. There are signs all over the place of "Big Brother." There are posters with his picture on every wall and there are telescreens in every room that are used to watch the citizens of this world. It is obvious to gather from this that the government is ridiculously controlling and nothing goes on that they don't know about. The Party is what started all of this and are the people who control everyone. Everything from Big Brother to The Party to telescreens and posters point towards a power hungry government. It is one thing to be watched all the time and be forced to follow certain rules but it is something terribly worse when there aren't technically any rules to follow. The party never actually set down rules for people to follow, they can change the rules whenever they please and they can change what people are supposed to think all the time. If someone does something that they think is out of line, they can send the thought police or other groups to arrest the person. Actually, arrest is a nice word compared to what they do. The police will go to their house in the middle of the night, grab them, throw a bag over their head, and take them away to never be seen again. It is likely that the party thought the people couldn't have freedom in order for the society to succeed as a whole. For us to have an outside view, we can easily see that this is a recipe for disaster.