Winston’s reliance on hope for future generations as his primary motivation provided him an opportunity to escape. Hopes and dreams are goals that people would like to achieve. However, they may not necessary be an essential need to be achieved. In Winston’s dreams, he often dreams of the red prole woman giving birth. Similar to the Party’s intent Winston recognize the importance of the innocent minds of the young and that the “future belongs to them”, therefore they are crucial to the success of rebellions against the Party. Proles, are the majority, and they are the people who are reprieved of the rights to freedom and wealth, therefore, they are the ones that are most likely to be able to become conscious. Winston mentions that “they will
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When the “red” prole woman gives birth to future generations, she is accounting for not only her hope but everyone elses’ hope that this baby will be able to rebel against the Party. However, Winston’s hope rises out of desperation. It is to grant his soul an opportunity to escape from the Party’s repression, and therefore, Winton often gives the impression of “more said than done”. He comments on the need for rebellion for freedom is because “freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four, and if that [is] granted, everything else follows.” Ability to take the first course of action is the key to success - overthrowing the dictatorial regime. Winston writes these “practical” ideas down in his diary, knowing that one day it will vanish along with him before anyone else have the chance to take a glance at it. He does not take initiative or decisive thoughts in attempt to make the first courses of actions to take place and let everything else follows, suggesting that he is relying his hopes on future generations. In a way, Winston’s hope for freedom is an escape for his soul to take a breath rather than his need for a …show more content…
In the beginning, when Winston wrote on his Diary, he knew he is determined to be vanished, and everything he had ever used would be annihilated. With the punishments in mind, he wrote in the Diary anyway, which seem to suggest his longing for a change in the society. However, another way of interpreting his motives is that his soul needed an escape, which is shown through the itching varicose ulcer that represents the repression of the inner emotions. Winston needed to fool his emotions into believing that the Party will be overthrown one day, even though with no one taking legitimate actions, it will never change. Winston feared death, but he feared “living dead” even more, because if he was already dead (no freedom), it would not have made a difference if he is physically dead, so freeing his soul for the time being would seem to be the better option. As mentioned previously, With hope that let him live for the time being, is also more easily given up because its existence was to provide comfort and not change. After Winston has been captured and sent to the prison cell, his hope shifts to the need for survival as he is not “committed” to it, The Party is able to manipulate people into giving up hope by confronting them to their worst fears. Winston’s fear was rats. In facing his worst fears, he easily gives up his
When the “red” prole woman gives birth to future generations, she is accounting for not only her hope but everyone elses’ hope that this baby will be able to rebel against the Party. However, Winston’s hope rises out of desperation. It is to grant his soul an opportunity to escape from the Party’s repression, and therefore, Winton often gives the impression of “more said than done”. He comments on the need for rebellion for freedom is because “freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four, and if that [is] granted, everything else follows.” Ability to take the first course of action is the key to success - overthrowing the dictatorial regime. Winston writes these “practical” ideas down in his diary, knowing that one day it will vanish along with him before anyone else have the chance to take a glance at it. He does not take initiative or decisive thoughts in attempt to make the first courses of actions to take place and let everything else follows, suggesting that he is relying his hopes on future generations. In a way, Winston’s hope for freedom is an escape for his soul to take a breath rather than his need for a …show more content…
In the beginning, when Winston wrote on his Diary, he knew he is determined to be vanished, and everything he had ever used would be annihilated. With the punishments in mind, he wrote in the Diary anyway, which seem to suggest his longing for a change in the society. However, another way of interpreting his motives is that his soul needed an escape, which is shown through the itching varicose ulcer that represents the repression of the inner emotions. Winston needed to fool his emotions into believing that the Party will be overthrown one day, even though with no one taking legitimate actions, it will never change. Winston feared death, but he feared “living dead” even more, because if he was already dead (no freedom), it would not have made a difference if he is physically dead, so freeing his soul for the time being would seem to be the better option. As mentioned previously, With hope that let him live for the time being, is also more easily given up because its existence was to provide comfort and not change. After Winston has been captured and sent to the prison cell, his hope shifts to the need for survival as he is not “committed” to it, The Party is able to manipulate people into giving up hope by confronting them to their worst fears. Winston’s fear was rats. In facing his worst fears, he easily gives up his