Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Winston's Dreams

As the story approaches to the end, Winston dreams of chatting with his mother, Julia, and O’Brien. He is inebriety about his dreams and he wishes he can live in the world that surrounds by his loves. Some of Winston’s dreams are wonderful, but some dreams bring him enormous agony. Winston’s dreams play an important role through the novel。

When he is dreaming about O’Brien, O’Brien gives him a message that “(they) shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”. Winston seems to foresee his future, which he lives in a world without the Party’s control. However, it is this dream that lead to his downfall and brings him pain and wrench. This dream also foreshadows the brutal torture and the luminous torturous room. Nevertheless, he loses everything in this brightsome torturous room, his dream and his ambition. He confesses and surrenders to the Party. Although Winston’s spirit collapses, he is still dreaming. The only difference is that his dream no longer relates to the Party, he simplex dream about his love ones.

From Winston’s dream about O’Brien to his mother, and to the final dream, his dreams go through the whole novel. Not only his dream foreshadows the following scenes but also develops the plots.

1 comment:

125-twong said...

 Short but precise thesis
 Some grammar issues, but point got across
 Body paragraph had some in-depth analysis
 However, conclusion does not fully conclude everything