Chapter 7

While I was reading this chapter, there's some points that really stood out to me and they had a message as I kept reading on. The points that mostly stood out to me is when Winston would write in his diary. There's one diary entry that really stood out to me which was "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." This really stood out to me because this is true in the real world and not just in book. When people do nasty things, or go to jail for something not so bad they can't be conscious again. In the first line where it says "Until they become conscious they will never rebel.." this is correct because when people are conscious of what they can and cannot do they will not do inappropriate things or things that will get them in trouble. When they rebel they don't know what's right and wrong anymore since they rebelled against a rule or rules. Another diary entry Winston put in his diary was "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." If you say that two plus two equals four, then that is freedom according to Winston. Before he wrote this in his diary, on page 80 it says "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." If you are forced to believe something it's not freedom but if you believe that two and two make four it's freedom because it's what you believe.