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Hello fellow readers! I realize most people have read more than three chapters, I finished the book myself last week and am reading something else, but others may have just finished chapter three because of life. This is the thread to discuss the book so far, or anything else that comes to mind. I don't mind rabbit trails at all.
In the third chapter, Winston has a dream about his mother and baby sister. He thinks his mother sacrificed herself for him, but he is not sure if he remembers correctly. There is a poignant line "Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason."
The dystopia of London in 1984 has no room for love, it is very sad- but Orwell was not a Christian, so he did not realize that a government could not banish love. He then has a dream about Julia in the Golden Country, a pastoral, private place.
We are also introduced to the Party slogan, "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
In the third chapter, Winston has a dream about his mother and baby sister. He thinks his mother sacrificed herself for him, but he is not sure if he remembers correctly. There is a poignant line "Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason."
The dystopia of London in 1984 has no room for love, it is very sad- but Orwell was not a Christian, so he did not realize that a government could not banish love. He then has a dream about Julia in the Golden Country, a pastoral, private place.
We are also introduced to the Party slogan, "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."