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Winston appears to be significantly diverging from the path
the government wishes for him to walk. He not only walks among the Proles, but
he goes into a shop to purchase delicacies no longer approved by the
government/society. However, he does not do so without trepidation. His guilty
conscience wracks him with physical ailments. Also, his desire to discover the
past among the proles is not powerfully driven yet; he seems to be merely
looking to confirm, or discredit, the words of a child’s textbook out of a
latent curiosity. He does not persist long in trying to obtain information from
the old man, therefore he is likely not yet motivated to the point of taking
any sort of decisive action.
It is clear that Winston is dissatisfied with his
government. He writes it in his journals; however, I don’t believe that he yet
knows why he is dissatisfied. He knows that the government allows people to
live wretched and poor, yet he cannot pinpoint what it is he lacks: he suggests
that his bones ache for what they know is missing, yet he can’t trace the
desire. Still, Winston has taken active steps to pursue the source of this
desire, trying to find what is missing, by wandering among the proles. For this
reason, I believe that Winston is beginning to become a rebel against the
government actively rather than inactively, albeit he still harbors a
significant amount of self-doubt.
Winston’s dissatisfaction is progressing. Where will it end?
It is not likely to end soon. My prediction is that he will become a full-blown
anti-government character, a sort of anarchist, fighting for the plight of the
all-too-accepting proles. He will incite their power, of which he has already
alluded to, and drive the masses against the government, a leader. All he must
do is leap beyond himself, his fears, and his self-consciousness, to focus on
the anger that he feels.
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Hamlet Summary in Newspeak
Hamlet Summary in Newspeak
H c Ghost=ungood, go mad, C&Pol test w/ O, c no unlove.
H kill Pol, scr unjoy ma. H-> Eng by C, O selfkill, H goback, ma, C, H dual unlive.
Lear Summary Newspeak
L unluv C, land->G&R. G&R mk L ungood,
L->storm unjoy. Edm plot nomore Edg, trick Glou. Corn uneye Glou, Edm Erl,
FrXEng, C,L,G,R, Glou die.
It's interesting to read this now, because after having joined the Brotherhood, it still doesn't seem like Winston knows what he wants or what he is doing because the lack of clarity that the group provides. He has found Julia and O'Brien but while they both have given him a reason to live, he can't rationalize them with one another.
ReplyDeleteAlso your Newspeak Hamlet and King Lear summaries are really good.