I have read the book to page 117 and I hardly can wait to read more. It just is so interesting to read what kind of place this world could be - but I hope that there will be no country like Oceania in the real world.
When I was reading about Winston's visit to the area where the proles live, I thought if Winston wanted to be a prole instead of being a Party member. Anyway, he goes to a prole's pub and meets there an old man. Winston pays the old man's beer and asks him questions about the life about 50 years ago, because Winston wants to know if the life was more miserable at that time. Winston had read about the topic but he can't trust anything he has read because the Party may have made history books a part of their propaganda. The old man can't answer the questions Winston has asked and Winston is disappointed.
Winston continues his visit in the area of proles and he goes back to the shop where he had bought the diary. This time he buy glass paperweight and when he comes out of the shop and is walking back to his home he sees a girl and he thinks that she is an thought police who is following him. He is afraid and thinks if he should kill the girl. When he sees the girl later she gives him seacretly a paper with text "I love you." Winston wants to meet the girl again but it is hard to arrange because the Party thinks that love should no exist but finally they can meet again.
I still don't understand what is the reason why the Party thinks that love is harmful. Is it just because the Party wants to control everything?
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Love is harmful to the Party (as we said in class one day) because it forms bonds with other people. The Party wants to take away the sex instict and deprive people of such a strong feeling because the people will exchange that eagerness and desire with rage and hate towards whatever the Party wants them to hate.
Yes; it is somewhat of a way to control and suppress the people under the Party because if people actually were allowed to love in this time, they would trust other people and not the government and would have someone to reveal their feelings to and such...perhaps causing a rebellion that would strip the Inner Party of their wealth and power.
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