Winston is experiencing what it's like to be in prison. He experiences himself interacting and observing other criminals and putting into thought why political criminals get more punishment rather than regular criminals. He gets to analyze his experience in the jail cell and analyze his visit of jail.
Questions: (6 level twos)
1. Do you think that the description of the prison corresponds with the mental state of the society?
-Yes I do believe that the description of the prison, as it's described as being white walls with no windows and a high ceiling, just as the society is very closed in as well. It is also significant that the place he is in is called the ministry of love when no love is actually living in it. (Logos)
2. Why do you think that the worst punishments were given to political prisoners rather than regular criminals?
- I personally believe that worst punishments were given to policies prisoners rather than regular criminals because the government assumes that the policies people are indefinitely on their side, so when the political people betray them, they are more likely to give them worse punishments because they know the law and expectations better than anyone in their society. (Logos)
3. Why do you think that Parsons is proud of their daughter snitching on him, even though the daughter just turned her own parent in?
- Because society is so brainwashed, even your own child can turn you in in this society and you'll be proud of them doing their duty to the party. Even though Parsons child turned them in, it is their duty to do so, so it was a proud moment for him, for that his daughter displayed loyalty to the party, which mattered to them.(Ethos)
4. Do you also believe that nothing is worse than physical pain?
- No, I definitely don't believe that. The worse pain is somebody or something getting inside of your head and manipulating you and changing your thought process. When Winston stated that physical pain was worse than any other pain, he is blind to his life because his painful life is more mental pain than anything. Constant reminders of control, and the telescreens to watch you, it's mentally draining and mentally restraining and he doesn't even know it's own effect on him. (Ethos)
5. Do you think that the people who tortured that man with him in the cell, which of whom would be nice to him and treat him as an equal, and then he would switch up real quick and torture him, symbolize the man that owned the antique shop?
- In a way, it does. The way it does symbolize the man at the antique shop is that he and Winston were cool and he thought he could trust him and treat him as an equal, but he turned around and was the thought police. This society they live in is sleazy, and there are a lot of fake friends so just as Winston presumed in the beginning, you can't trust anyone. Winston in a way is the man that is tortured, in the way of his mind and that he is different from many, and the person who is torturing him who he thought was his equal friend, betrayed him in that he gave him a room with a telescreen when he claimed there wasn't one at all. (Logos)
Level (3) Questions:
1. If you already grew up in a society of Dystopia, would you be equally affected of the changes if you hadn’t ever experienced life now-a-days?
- I believe that if I didn’t experience modern times and if I just grew up in Dystopia, I wouldn’t think much of it, I would just perceive it as normal life, just as you would. Coming from a rational point of view, if you grew up in a certain time period then you wouldn’t question it because that is all you have ever known life to be, so why would you think of it any differently? It all depends on what you are used to and what environment you were raised in. (Ethos)
2. If someone were monitoring your thoughts do you believe that you would be able to keep them under control?
- Personally, no. Growing up in America, a society that lets you speak your mind, to an extent, has created this being that doesn't have a filter on my mouth when I have an opinion or idea. How would I be able to communicate my ideas, changes, to help people? I wouldn’t, thats the whole point of Dystopia, that you can't express those beliefs, I would not be able to live in a Dystopian society, but if it was all I have ever known I would probably to able to. (Ethos)
3. Imagine that Dystopian societies were unheard of. Imagine you have a cousin that claims that they live in one, would you believe them if they told you all about it?
- If I had a cousin that lived in a Dystopian society I would not believe him/her if they told me about day to day life in one. Once again, growing up in America allows me to express myself whether its through words, visuals, or maybe even clothes, so hearing of a Dystopian society would be unimaginable. (Ethos)
Part III: Quotes:
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" (3.1.71, the old tortured man at the Ministry of Love)
"It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway." (3.1.48-50)
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