Last Blog Ever!

So, as this year is ending, I would like to talk about one very important thing...... hopelessness. This is one major feeling that Winston has in 1984. He feels like he can't do anything to save his country, his girlfriend or himself. He is completely trapped by the government and he has no way to escape. Even when he thinks he is safe in the apartment above the antique shop, he is being watched. This is also a major connection to our lives. Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless in some way. This is just one thing that we have to watch out for. It is one thing just feeling overwhelmed or whatever with life, but totally another being completely hopeless and helpless, having no freedom at all. That is why people should read this book. Simply that.

The Last of Orwell

Orwell is one strange bird. The things he thinks up in his head! I've finished the book, and as I think about it... I see how it can be compared to our world of media and celebrities. At the end of the book, Winston makes a... curious realization, which I think can be compared to desensitization to violence. When you grow up in a world where you are constantly seeing violence and sex and drugs, you aren't as bothered by it after a while. Once Winston is captured, he is completely changed, and desensitized in a way. He is physically unable to go against the Party anymore, and he isn't as bothered by things. He loves BB.
It is the same with video games and such things. If you watch and play that stuff, it doesn't bother you after a while. You start to like it.
I don't know what Orwell was basing it off of, but it was probably TV and how it was becoming popular.
I just hope we don't go too far.... I for one don't like Big Brother.