It's scary to think they can just burn history whenever they want to erase it. How could the workers for the government agree to do this? I know they will be killed if they don't....but why not join together and overthrow the government?
Does Syme think that their language getting smaller every year is actually a good thing? Everyone would be like walking zombies if they didn't get to have their own thoughts. I think when they show how the kids act it is also referring to how we now learn, a lot of our beliefs are the same as our parents, friends, and teachers. That's what they are being taught, so that is all they know because they have no prior life to relate to, this is their life.
That would be scary when you do things unconsciously, like talking in your sleep, and not knowing what you might say or do and have the government hear it and possibly be "vaporized".
The children's book he was copying from said it described before the Revolution, but it sounded like what was happening after the Revolution. The description of Rutherford "breaking up before one's eyes, like a mountain crumbling" is just like the society is falling apart.
When he is talking on page 80, he really makes some good points and makes me question a lot of our history and what our government is capable of.
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I agree that the Revolution that the Party wrote sounds more like the lifestyle Winston is currently living in. The Party has erased so much of history that people don't even know what to believe.
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