1984 Quote Significance Ch. 1.5,6- 2/13

"Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?" (60).

I like this quote because it makes alot of sense. If we think something is wrong or different, it is only because we are basing it off of some preconceived notion about what is wrong. For instance, if we were raised to believe that people don't normally take a bus or a train, and we saw someone doing so, we would think it to be different than the norm we already have instilled in us. This is how the party operates, by teaching people about, not what is morally wrong or different, but what they believe to be. Also, the word 'ancestral' is used. This makes me think that Winston's parents made him this way. If they were taken out in one of the great purges of the fifties, that would leave them a good span of years to denounce the party. The point I'm getting at is that all of the people who blindly submit to the Party's will is because their parents did as well. Those whose parents did not go along with The Party's wishes, like Winston, believe the world around them to be wrong and different.

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