Group Eight Book Club Four Kiana, Samantha C., Alyssa, Zander, Ines
What does Winston mean when he tells Julia that they are all dead?
Why does Winston think that sex is a great way to rebel against the party?
Why does Julia wear makeup to impress Winston?
Why is Winston terrified of rats?
What does the paperweight represent?
Winston thinks sex is great way to rebel against the party because he is to scared to do anything violent. And it makes him feel alive and like a person while he is rebelling against the party. -Kayden Price
ReplyDeleteI agree it is the easiest way to express his frustration an hatred for the party. Winston loves Julia because of this which also makes him want to rebel even more.
DeleteYou're right kayden but it was because he liked to rebel without them knowing it was a sneaky way to rebel and this pleased Winston -Cody lawton period 8
DeleteI agree Kayden, I think that Winston likes to have sex as a way of rebelling too because when he had sex with his wife she only did it as a loyalty to the party. But now he does it against them. -Jack Carroll
DeleteIt does make him feel alive, but I think more than that, it's a small, private act that feels like a big achievement to Winston and Julia, since the Party doesn't want them to do a particular thing, but they are doing that particular thing. This is done in private, so no one really knows about it, which is why I'm hesitant to say it's a rebellion, but they have sex just because it makes them feel powerful going against the words of the Party.
DeleteI can agree with you on this, but even though no one knows about it still is rebellion. They are going against the Party's laws. Also, Mr. Charrington does know about their rebellion.
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ReplyDeleteWinston thinks sex is a great way to rebel against the party because they want to make sex feel like nothing and only be a job for the party to produce more members. He can make love with Julia and rebel at the same time, which he liked.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. However I would add that the only reason people in the society of 1984 have sex is to have children. It is their duty to the party to have kids and add to the population. I think Winston is doing it to show that people have needs and it shows that he can do something that is strictly done for the purpose of reproduction and nothing else just to make a statement that the party can not control your feelings and needs.
DeleteI agree with you. However I would add that the only reason people in the society of 1984 have sex is to have children. It is their duty to the party to have kids and add to the population. I think Winston is doing it to show that people have needs and it shows that he can do something that is strictly done for the purpose of reproduction and nothing else just to make a statement that the party can not control your feelings and needs.
DeleteWinston belives that sex is the number 1 rebellion against Big Brother because they don't people too love eachother in that manner.
ReplyDeleteFor Winston the paperweight represents a connection to the past and in particular his past with which he tries to reconnect to. The paperweight is considered an act of rebellion to the party because it wires back to the past.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the paperweight is a connection to the past and that symbol is lost when the police enter the scene and it is broken on the floor.
DeleteIn the book, sex is not for pleasure, but rather, procreation. Julia and Winston realize that they can demonstrate their own power to themselves, (not so much other people) by having sex in secret. They can't be caught having sex in public, since they will be arrested, but they can have it in secret and feel as if they have a lot more power and control over the Party's commands.
ReplyDeleteI agree, and I would add that for both of them this is the only way for either of them to show their rebellion because neither of them are the type to go out and start a riot so for them this is the way to get that feeling of rebellion.
DeleteWhat does the paperweight symbolize? Winston buys a paperweight in an antique store in the prole district that comes to symbolize his attempt to reconnect with the past. Symbolically, when the Thought Police arrest Winston at last, the paperweight shatters on the floor.
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ReplyDeleteWinston is brought to room 101 to be tortured with his worse fear, rats. I think he is afraid of rats because rats represent depravity. Humans have always associated rats as pests and squalor. They carry disease,live off of garbage and are rank as one of the world's most beastlike creatures. Winston's life is full of humans who act like and are treated like beasts, which is why I think he is afraid of rats.
ReplyDeleteWinston is afraid of rats because in the torture room where they make you face your fears thats what he had to face and the rats are his fear and he gets tortured with and he cant do anything to stop it.
ReplyDeleteHe is absolutely terrified of rats because he is like a laboratory-rat running through a maze. (The maze being his life with big brother and Goldstein). With O'Brien being the mad scientist who makes him run. The rats in front of his face became like a mirror-image of himself. He does not like the image he sees there. And so he acts like a true rat by saying "Not me...Do it to her...Do it to Julia!"
DeleteSex is a great way for Winston to rebel against the party because he isn't the type of guy who would go out and do something violent but he hates the party enough that doing something like sex gives him that rush of rebellion and his own little sense of being courageous enough to rebel.
ReplyDeleteWhen Winston tells Julia they're all dead he means that the life they live in isn't really life at all, it is a lie a controlled lie and its like they're dead because they can't do anything. Everything they do is watched by Big Brother and if they do the wrong thing thy're dead. There is so many wrong things they can do in comparison to the little they could do right. So in his eyes they're already dead.
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