4. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) attributes

"He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down." (Orwell, Part 1 Chapter 1)


     The attribute I selected was courage. Prior to the quote I selected, Winston had written an entry about the world they live in. This may not seem like, but within the context it is quite couragous. The dystopian world is one in which everyone is under constant surveillance. Or at the very least, as Winston mentions, it's safe to assume you are always being watched, because it almost always true.

   In the story Just Lather That's All Captain Torres shows a great example of courage. Throughout the story Torres has seemed to unwittingly put himself in grave danger. But what he says at the end tells us otherwise. "They told me that you'd kill me. I came to find out. But killing ain't easy. You can take my word for it." (Tellez). So we learn that in fact Captain Torres has walked in to the barber shop knowing full well that he could be killed. This means that he wasn't unwittingly walking in on danger, but courageously challenging the barber. 

"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face." (Orwell, 77)
What we see from this quote is what the Party (the controlling power) values. Such values, if went against, would have severe consequences. So even writing your thoughts down would get you vaporized. 










     Tellez, Hernando. "Just Lather, That's All."redirecting your request. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2013. http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/velez/LAS100/tellez.htm

3. Define and Describe

The theme of justice in 1984 is quite different from what I think (or at least hope) most people would have. The way justice is portrayed by the government in this novel is a bleak picture.  Justice, one might say, doesn't exist in 1984. Well, at least as most people might consider to be justice. Big Brother and the (ironically named) Ministry of Truth controls everything that happens in the fictional world of 1984.      The way this is presented is made very clear by the Ministry of Truth's slogan "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (Orwell, 17). This slogan, is plastered everywhere. Along with the image of Big Brother that says "Big Brother is always watching"(19). The book is written in third person limited, which I think is the best way to portray the world in this book. The reason I think this is because you feel exactly like Winston. You have no idea what is going on with The Ministry, or the Party, all you know is that it is the controlling power which feeds people lies. So by not using say, third person omniscient, we get a better sense of what is ACTUALLY going on in the book.      The plot in this book has told me about the perception of justice by the excitement of activities that really should not be excited. Writing in a book about how you hate the government is something that plenty of "teenage anarchists" do, but while I was reading Winston right "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"(18) I was on the edge of my seat. After he opened the door and the book was sitting open on the table the feeling I had was similar to watching a WWII movie where someone was hiding Jews and there are Nazis at the door. All these (usually mundane) things were intense because of the warped perception of justice.