Friday, April 10, 2009

Winston Knows?

The thing that Winston knows at the end of chapter 6 is that he will eventually be caught and killed. In chapter 6, O'Brien tells Winston that he can see the Newspeak dictionary if he meets him at his flat. It is also at this point in the novel where Winston doesn't know whether O'Brien is on his side or whether he is trying to catch him for the party. So, in a sense Winston kind of realizes that this is a his last fight, that after this something will probably happen to him, and right now in the book he doesn't know what to think about O'Brien, or even if he should trust him. O'Brien could be spying on him and turn him in or he could be very similar to Winston and be secretly against the party. I think that it is still too early to tell what kind of person O'Brien is. I think that Winston is foreshadowing his own downfall or possibly even death, all because he would go to O'Brien's flat, and he knew that something significant was going to happen in the ministry of love and this was the last step in his long drawn out process of the conspiracy. It all started with an involuntary thought, then to words, and then to actions, and now he has a feeling that this will all end in death. Whether O’Brien kills him or if someone else kills him he doesn't know, all he knows is that there is a grave waiting for him. If I were Winston I would not trust O’Brien, because up until this point he hasn’t had any contact with him except for the 2 minutes hate, and now out of the blue he is inviting him over to his house to get a newspeak dictionary, that’s a little creepy even though he might seem like a nice guy.

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