Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Entry No.4




what is the climax of this novel? what happens? how do the events of this novel make you feel?


Winston’s torture within the cage of rats in Room 101 is the climax of this novel. Winston has been tortured for considerably a long time. Nonetheless, Winston had resisted to the torture vigorously. He did not commence on with loving the Big Brother. Even so, Winston eventually surrendered when he arrived at the cage of rats. O’Brien threatened Winston that if he does not act accordingly to the Big Brother’s wills, he will order the rats to consume his face.

Winston would not have fallen for this threat if it were not for the several days of torture. Yet the torture had consumed both his soul and body. Winston did not have the strength to oppose that threat. The fear had already surmounted him.

This is the climax because there is a clear mark of no return in this event. When Winston was abducted physically, there was no return for his body to the ordinary. Nonetheless, for his mental status, there was a return. He could have resisted and always have not left the ordinary mentally. Yet, when Winston surrendered to the Big Brother’s rule, there was no return physically and mentally. Therefore, this, I believe, is the point of no return.

As the sequence of trials in this novel occurred to Winston, I felt an enormous sympathy for him. If there were ways out to his adversity, my sympathy would not have been as great. Yet, all the trials that Winston faced were inescapable. In whatever way or choice he made, the result was always same, destruction.

I felt, face to face, the world that Winston was facing for himself. Winston lived in a world where every action one took was manipulated, a world where legitimate optimism was impossibility. I felt the soreness of the bolt that the Big Brother had put on civilization the world. As my emotions took over my mentality, I wondered of an equivalent situation of this book in the current world.

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