This was a gross chapter with the old prostitute and whatnot, but it was also revealing about Winston and the Party as a whole. Expelling sex from a society is a hefty goal for the Party to set and is clearly a work in progress seeing that prostitutes and still running around. I think the most interesting line from this chapter was "The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, of it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it." This interested me because the party is openly admitting that they can not control everything and even though there isn't much hope, there is some and to quote The Force Awakens: "rebellions are built off hope!"
Chapter 7
This chapter felt like the turning point for Winston. He put together his current thoughts with his prior experiences and it appears that he will try to make a difference in his creepy world. The question is how? The book so far has been a lot of back stories and not a lot of action, we'll see if that changes going into part 2 and see if Winston starts making an army.
I hope this book doesn't turn into endless gloom because even though that is more probable for the setting it would be way more depressing to read.
No comments:
Post a Comment