"... can human nature be changed in such a way that man will forget his longing for freedom, for dignity, for integrity, for love-that is to say, can man forget that he is human?" (Page 260) The human mind is fragile... it is weak. People are broken all of the time. Hearts are thrashed and minds are scattered. 1984 shows that horrible experiences can alter a persons mind. If someone knows your weakness then they can hurt you inside and out. The human mind is easy to fool and just as easy to contort. "Doublethink" is something ever single one of us has to deal with everyday. If we are constantly questioning what we think we know then it is just as easy to be tricked into believing something that we didn't believe before.
I feel, just like the afterword has said, that 1984 can still be a warning to our future. The more our society develops and the further we go into the future, the scarier that it becomes. Everything that Orwell has written in his book can very well happen. Similar things like that have happened in the past and who is to say that we are safe now? Who is to say that there isn't someone who is greedy for power that is plotting to cease us now?
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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