sábado, 18 de febrero de 2012

Who told them about you? - My little daughter.

- Who told them about you? - asked Wiston.
- My little daughter. - said Parsons.


Your own daughter, just a little and innocent girl who you have seen growing up and who you have love so much has betray you. Can you immagine it?
It's shocking and impressive but in those times it was something ordinary. And that's what had happened to Mrs. Parsons in Chapter 9 of 1984. He, who has always supported the Party, who since he was a child was part of the Spies and who raised his children as a Party children; now is accused of thoughtcriminal by his own daughter!

This quotation is one of lots of examples that George Orwell give us to explain us how society was in those times. There was people who was educated so much to serve the party that end betraying their family. But, It was not only your family. Your neighbours, yours collagues or yours comrades. You weren't safe anywhere and with anyone. You always had to take care of what you say or eventhough, what you dream. Everybody wanted to show their respect and their admiration to Big brother and to the Party, and the best way of doing that was giving to them traitors.

It's cruel, but it was like this. Kids were educated and prepared to serf the party and that means they would have to identify traitors. Even thier friends or their parents.  

The Past Must Be Changed All the Time Because The party Can Never Make a Mistake

"The Past Must Be Changed All the Time Because The party Can Never Make a Mistake" is a sentence we can find in chapter number eight that talks about the Doublethink. It's written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy number one of The Party, and it talks about the way that The Party manipulates the information to have always the reason.

The quotation says it very clearly: the past must be changed to make sure that people never knows that the Party was wrong sometime. It's a way of making people think that the Party will never do something amiss, that they are perfect and that they never make mistakes. Moreover, we can see in this sentence how easy was for The Party to control all that information. How they, thanks to the Ministry of Truth, can erase any type of information that contradicts them. How can they change the meaning of the words to make people belive false information. In addition, this sentence also shows the selfishness of The Party. They must always be right. The must always say the correct and the last thing and, if someone says the otehr way, he should be trated as a traitor.


So, as a conclusion, I would like to say that it's always the same. The Party controls the whole information that moves around he country and, as a consequence, it controls people's thoughts.

lunes, 6 de febrero de 2012

WAR IS PEACE

"War is Peace" is one of the parts that forms the official slogan of the Party. This sentence, in addition to " Freedom is Slavery!" and " Ignorance is Strengh", is written with capital lettres on the walls of the Minitrue, the Minitry of Truth that George Orwells describes in the firts chapter of 1984. 


"War is Peace" represents one of the principal ideas of the Party: war it's the only way to solve problems and thats why you (refering to people) must belive and participate in it. The point, is that it was used as a propaganda to recruit soldiers for the army and to make civil people belive that war is good and that it's the correct way to show to the whole world the power of the country, and of course the power and the influence of The Party. 
Althougth it's difficult to relate peace with war, the Party set up all the slogan to cause that impression on people. And, despite of not having any sense, many people thougth that and showed their support to the war and, obviously, to the Party. 




Finally, I asked myself: How could it be possible to think that war brings peace? How can anybody belive that the best way of solving problems is war? War is never good. It never brings anything more than deaths and misery, It can not be realated with PEACE. They are totally opposit!