1984: 8

"There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead"(Orwell 176).

There is no hope among the Brotherhood. No matter how much they can chip away at the juggernaut of the Party, they will never, in this time be able to fully overcome them. Despite this, the members are still ready and willing to give their lives up for the cause. They offer to work tirelessly and even cause pain for the innocent. They work not for themselves, but for the future. As Winston and Julia embark on this journey, they are prepared for torture, pain, and even never seeing one another again. Knowing that by joining the Brotherhood you face certain death, the object is again not to stay alive, but to stay human. The one part of every person that the Party cannot control are their innermost feelings. The Brotherhood needs to preserve the ideas of being human and rebellion for the future generations.

1984: 7

"It was like the foretaste of death, like being a little less alive"(Orwell 159).

If thoughtcrime is death, then what is acting upon thoughtcrime? The feeling, the knowledge that death is on your horizon. If you know that by simply thinking things that should not be thought you are crawling closer to you death, then surely you would know that by acting upon these impulses, you are leaping towards your certain demise. Yet something in the characters pushes them past caution and into defiance. The human instinct to not want to be alone, physically or mentally pushes Winston, Julia, and O'Brien to branch out and find the others who must be like them. If they know that their deaths are impending due to their mere thoughts, then what else have they to lose by acting upon them? They are becoming slowly less alive as they bound towards the grave. Buried alive by unorthodox thoughts and actions.

1984: 6

"So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing"(Orwell 136).

To live, you must have the freedom to make your own choices. Otherwise, one life would be the same as the next. This is the world in which Winston lives. The Party promotes uniformity. It is this very concept that rebels like Winston and Julia seek to escape. If you are not living your own life, what are you living? Are you even living at all? To these questions, Winston would argue no. So long as humans can feel the desire to live their own lives, being alive and not allowed to do so will be the same as death. The suppression of emotions, the constant biting your tongue, and the invasion of privacy that is Telescreens kill the people. Not physically maybe, but it kills them mentally and emotionally. With those two parts dead, all that is left is a robotic skeleton. Robots don't live and die, they just exist. A "dead" robot and a "live" one would have the same mental capacity, none.

1984: 5

"I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones"(Orwell 125).

If Big Brother paints the picture that the Party is good, and always right, then he also says rebellion is bad. Through restriction of thought and action, people are slowly oppressed into the oblivion of following their set path. This path, like the Party, is good. It must be so, since there is no other way. In this passage that Winston stated in a fit of passion and strength, his true raw feelings of hatred for all things Party related and therefore "good" shine through. Any action, major, insignificant, short lived, long lasting, no matter, it brings a sense of victory to Winston. Beating the Party is the only reason to keep going on with the daily drudgery. Wherever Winston can find even the smallest sliver of hope that there are others who feel similarly, he is happy and reassured about his life. Finding a friend in Julia allows him to see that there are others. Purity, goodness, and virtue, will most likely soon just become status quo as people lose the ability to function on their own. Soon after that, they will be eliminated by Newspeak.

1984: 4

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious"(Orwell 70).

Winston writes this line in his journal. It become apparent that he fully understands how the people must overcome mental blocks in order to rebel. They must become conscious of better times and conditions and a reason to fight in order to rebel. Yet in order to grasp in its entirety the rebellion and in order to see that there would be a reason to ever rebel, the people must become conscious of another time and place when things where better. Both of these scenarios are much the same, and both are necessary if anything is to be done about Big Brother. The fact that neither of these have been realized, allows Big Brother and The Party to keep the population under the fist of oppression.

1984: 3

"Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness"(Orwell 53).

Following the rules, trusting in Big Brother, living day to day, are all eventually going to require no thought what so ever if Big Brother has his way. The less thought, the less questioning, the more automatic appropriate actions become, and the slimmer the margin of error. Being a perfect person in this society makes you not a person at all, it makes you a robot. Where the human shell once held emotions, there is now emptiness. The less thought, the less things like this will be missed, until one day all the people go about automatically, unconscious of there being any other way.

1984: 2

"The chosen lie would pass into permanent records and become truth"(Orwell 45).

Winston's job is using his imagination. He fabricates history in order to make it satisfactory to The Party. Living in a society where nothing is certain, the date, your name, events in books, nothing is necessarily real. How can people go along in a society where they live not knowing the difference between fact and fiction, not knowing enough to think and question for themselves the control of the Party As outrageous as this might be, does it, in a way relate to our society? Is this just a way of depicting how the media in our day and age manipulate stories in order to make flashy headlines or support their political stand point? Or is this just a totally separate unfathomable society. Although we have freedoms and can find for ourselves the information we want, the portrayals of the information we receive in order to make the writer's opinion seem more righteous draw parallels between the outlandishly twisted world of the book and our own, sometimes left uninformed world.

1984 : 1

"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull"(Orwell 27).

This line in the book contains a mix of both truth and falseness. It begs the question do the people in the book actually control their minds. Although technically Big Brother and the Party cannot be inside the minds of the people, they control every aspect of their lives with such completeness, not even their minds belong to themselves anymore. The Party is trying desperately by using the Thought Police and rewriting history to control the memories and conscious thoughts of the people. Their minds are trained to follow the rules so well that everything they think and do are controlled. No rebellion, nothing unplanned, no memories. All this considered, is your brain really yours? If you cannot choose what to think or say, you do not know which of your memories have truly occurred, you live in fear that others know what you are thinking, is your mind truly yours? Yes, no one can take it away from you, but if you are told how to use it, then it might as well not belong to you.