"The Book"

"The book" was a very interesting section of the story to read. Although it explained a lot, none of it was much of a surprise. However, it did show the party to be extremely devious and powerful. They have gone to such great lengths to maintain power and it is hard to see how they could ever lose it. The party completely disregards any human rights or freedoms. It was appalling to me that they keep the country constantly at war to be able to produce goods, yet they still keep over eighty percent of their population on the brink of starvation. At least if the proles/outer party had more food and necessities the war would benefit everyone, but it doesn’t. Every action taken by the party is intended to benefit only those in the party. It seems a lot like capitalism in that they just worry about themselves. While reading this I thought of the fat, capitalist presented earlier in the book. That is honestly how I see the inner party now. All they seem to do is bathe in their luxuries while everyone else works tirelessly for them. The reveal of the book was a perfect parallel to right before when Winston had just finished working an exhausting 90 hour week. He is so tired and dead and then he learns that its all just to keep the inner party wealthy. While my blog seems to be directly attacking the inner party, I don’t believe all the people in it would be doing this on purpose because of the double think that was explained. I believe that the main problem in this society is how uneducated and ignorant the people are. I feel that people in the inner part are “blissfully ignorant,” they enjoy everything they could want and many of them don’t truly understand what is going on in Oceania.