Down With 1984! Down with 1984! Down with 1984!

To be honest, I ended up finishing 1984 but I got through enough of it that I felt like I dint need to read to the end and let me tell you why. It was so monotonous! After reading page after page of how Winston secretly hates the party and how Julia hates the party and what they do to undermine the party I was on the verge of exploding because at that point I was just like then do something already!!!! It’s no use undermining the party where no one can see them because that really isn’t changing anything. If they really want to make a change they should publicly do something to go against the party. Yeah they would probably be vaporized but at least you were brave enough to do something about it and who knows maybe other people would be brave enough to follow their example in the future and if you got enough people to do something that went against the party publicly then maybe change can actually be made.  I have to say that I was rooting for Julia and Winston when they finally found out that the brotherhood existed but I instantly began to think of the brotherhood as doing the same thing, an underground operation that was almost too afraid to do anything. Now as I have said I didn’t get a change to finish the book so I don’t know if Winston or Julia actually were able to do something with the brotherhood in order to bring about change to this war driven nation but from what I was getting from reading other people’s posts the ending didn’t seem as if there was a big change or a different outcome in this society. This book just screamed rebellion and if Winston, Julia and the brotherhood were not able to make a change in Oceania then there would eventually be a change because how long could a society remain like this especially when people like Winston seem to be fully aware of how they are being controlled.