Wednesday, April 6, 2011

I still don't understand why...

"A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself." (pg. 267) As I read through O'Briens explanations about the motives of the party and how the party wishes the future world to be like, I still have trouble wrapping my mind arounnd how anybody could want such a thing. The description of the what the Party desires the future world to consist of seems so inhumane that people of the Inner party such as O'Brien must have truly lost their humanity. This is the only rational thing I can think of that would cause anybody to want a world like this. The Inner Party have lost their human emotions and other related things therefore making such a thing acceptable. The people of the Party have just turned into robots that have lost touch with humanity. An interesting thing is that the proles are described in this novel as the animals, but they are more human than what the people of the party have become. To me it is just crazy that the twisted logic that O'Brien explaned to Winston could develop so fully.

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