How My Thinking and Learning Was Affected By What Others Wrote Throughout the Blogging Process (3)

My thinking and learning process was somewhat affected by what my classmates wrote on each of their own blogs. I learned a couple of new ideas that I did not think of before looking at my classmates’ blog postings on the novel, 1984, by George Orwell.

One idea that Natschja brought in on of her blogs was that the members of the Party of Oceania in this novel are like “robots with no emotion.” I think that this is a really good way to think of how the members of the Party of Oceania are like. I can really understand and see why they are like robots because they are constantly told watched and controlled in what they can do. The telescreens that the government of Oceania put everywhere are a big part of that. That is something that makes them act in way that they probably do not want to act like, but they have to anyway or else they can be in a lot of trouble. This is also why the have no emotions to and from any other members of they Party. If they do have emotions they are arrested, which is exactly what happened to Winston and Julia. They were caught in Mr. Charrington’s flat together, which was illegal. Also, Winston was arrested for his strong, negative emotions that were against Big Brother, which was another thing that the Party’s government does not like. One quote that I liked from this blog posting of Natschja’s was "In reality there was no escape...To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable [Impossible to overcome or defeat] instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available." I like this quote because it describes how the members of the Party of Oceania are like “robots with no emotion.” There is no possible way to avoid the government and its extreme rules and ideas. As a member of the Party, you just have to go on and live with it like every other member of the Party does. If you do not go on by following the government’s rules and ideas, and you try to take matter into your own hands, you will be arrested and not get away with it. If the government does not punish you, they will try to cure you like O’Brien did to Winston, making Winston end up loving Big Brother. Winston did not win and live the way he wanted to, but rather the government won and made him live the way it wants all of its members including Winston to live.