Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.There were several different passages that were significant and meaningful to me. Among these, Winston accepting the ways of the Party is one of them.
He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Ocenaia had always been at war with Eastasia. Jones,aaronson, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charagd with. he had never seent he photography that disprovedt their guilt. It had enver existed; he had invented it. He remebered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of self-deception. How easy it all was! Only surrender, and everything else followed. It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude ; the predestined thing happened in any case. He hardly knew why he had ever rebelled. Everything was easy, except-! (1984 - p.228 ~ 229)
This part of the passage of the novel surprised me. I had believed and hoped that Winston would not have given into what the Party says "truth". I had expected him to endure his pain and fight for the genuine truth of history and life. His lack of resistance of wha the knows is false disappointed me and in a way discouraged me. In the passage, he was explaining how it was simple and easy just as when you are swimming. Instead of facing and swmming aginst the strong current, just following and going along with it is much easier.
I also thought this passage showed what we, humans are like what winston did in the passage. Some of us do, but most of us don't stay strong and consistant of what we believe is the truth and a fact. However, this had happened with persuasion and torture. It is the sad reality that those who have the power and the ability to use dangerous tools can turn a person's world upside down and shake it until everything falls out.
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