What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?The mood of this novel is very suspenseful and somewhat creepy. The reader is kept on the edge throughout this whole novel, wondering what Winston will do next. Will he cave under the pressure of the government? Or will he stand for what he believes is true? Also, how the author describes the dingy streets of Oceania adds to the suspense in the plot. The mindless obedience to the government by the proles is also very creepy. To think that a whole group of people who have brains actually believes everything a government tells them is very scary. It makes one think that those people, the proles, have no brains, and instead, have the brain-washing teachings of the government stuffed into their heads.
The novel does sadden me very much. To think that people are not even allowed to think for themselves is unthinkable. For a person, the safest place he/she has is inside his/her own mind. Living with this government, the people don't even have that safe place. They have no safe place. The government claims that the people are safe if they follow the government, but this is not so. What saddened me the most was the fact that the people didn't even realize they were living a harder life. They sincerely liked the life they were living and didn't question anything the government said. I agreed with Winston while reading this novel, that if there was any hope, it was with the proles; however, the proles were too ignorant to realize the power they had, which was the saddest part of all.
2 comments:
I also wished so much that proles realize their power like you did. But I guess it is better to have at least one thing that MIGHT be worthwhile to lay hopes then having no hope. I actually believe that having hope would help people like Winston not to be easily brainwashed.
Anyways I think your entry was thoughtful. =) There were things that I didn't even think of.
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