Winston's Dreams

Well, needless to say that Winston has some repressed issues, but he also has some repressed dreams, like the one he has in book 2 about his mother and his sister. I think that Orwell uses these dreams to help depict how Winston feels and thinks about people and is also using this to depict an aspect of human nature.
Winston's dream is about him as a selfish, spoiled child, who basically took all the food. This is interesting because we can tell how he feels about children by the way he describes himself as a child. He and Julia refer to children as swine. I think that this is interesting because his mother seems to be the one pleading with him for mercy, while he screams and shouts for the last bit of chocolate until his sister and mother are both in tears. What is another interesting thing to note her is that his mother actually seems to care about her children, and Winston doesn't notice this until later on. This kind of behavior must be common in the party. I think that this helps us see what Winston has suppressed, and also makes the differences between him and Julia a lot clearer, and also helps us see how his views on society have changed. Winston regrets how selfish he was as a child, when he didn’t at the time. One more thing to note is that his mother could tell that his sister was going to die, when he couldn’t, which is also an indicator about how selfish and uncaring he was.