Week five on feelingsonbooks.com, I am sharing my feelings of my readings of part two of George Orwell's novel 1984. In this part of the book Winston is becoming more deeply involved with individuals who are members of a government resistance group. This made me feel anxious, nervous and suspicious for Winston as he enters this different world of deception, shadows, and lies.
The governments of North Korea, Russia and China all come to my mind. They control everything that their people do, learn, watch, are allowed to say, and see as far as the internet. More recently, the country of Iran is killing their own people just for using Star Link to connect to the internet. The IRGC in Iran doesn’t want the citizens of Iran to learn what other countries are saying about their country. The IRGC wants their people to only hear what they are telling them and make them believe that their way is the truth, and the rest of the world are the evil ones. The world we are living in and the one created by Orwell seventy-eight years ago could sadly be one and the same.
The fictional Oceania and countries of our world live in fear that they cannot think the way they feel without fear of being put to death or imprisoned and tortured for their beliefs being different than the government says it should be. Resistance groups in Iran are currently preparing to fight for their freedom, people here in the United States of America are protesting for their right to speak out against the way the government is treating immigrants and legal us citizens as they are searching for illegal aliens who don’t belong here as they have either overstayed their visas or came here illegally by crossing the border. This happens all over the world.
As I'm reading this book and following Winston, I feel fear for his safety. The leader of the resistance made him pledge his allegiance to the cause no matter what the consequences, or what he would be asked to do. Hurt a child, kill a person, or even kill himself if he is commanded to do so for the cause of the resistance in hopes that the government will be overthrown and freedom will be the reward for all the sacrifices. Is freedom for others worth sacrificing your own safety and existence to make the world a better place? Is Winston going to survive so he can live in a free society free from the oppression of the Party? What thoughts do you have on the reading this week?
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