These last few chapters seem to show the weakness of man. I somewhat anticipated that there wouldn't be an uprising, but I didn't think Winston would totally love Big Brother in the end. We all would like to think that we'd endure through the torture and overcome the Party, but we are weaker than we think. There has to be one person that they can't get. They can't torture someone forever...eventually the person will die.
Winston betrayed Julia. They each swore they wouldn't betray each other and they did. By giving in to the Party, they gave up their love for each other. Julia's body had changed. When winston put his hand around her, he said she felt like a corpse. I think this symbolizes how they both died spiritually by giving in to the Party.
I think that the Chutes and Ladders game somewhat symbolizes how the Party members try to climb up and rise above the Party, but their efforts seem futile. They always seem to fall back down.
I found this to be a very good book--probably the best we've read so far. It kind of makes a person want to rise up against what is wrong after seeing the weakness of humans and the oppression they went through in the book. I still believe that there has to be one person they can't overcome. There has to be somewhat who they can't get. Maybe there already has been...
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I think that you are right when you said:" There has to be somewhat who they can't get. Maybe there already has been...". Maybe the Brotherhood is not an imagenary organization.
I like how you compare the party to Chutes and Ladders...funny. But I also agree with what you said about how there has to be one person that they can't get. There is no way to know if they are successful on everyone so there should always be someone they don't get.
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