Quote: "The object or persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
Significance:
These three simple sentences embody a huge part of the Party's motives. At first, I thought there might be some kind of conspiracy within the methods they used to convert people, or at least some contradictions. However, it seems that what you see is what you get, laid out quite bluntly by O'Brien. No ulterior motive. The methods simply are what they are.
Definitions:
abasemenr: to lower physically
solipsism-theory of holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing.
About Me
- Nathaniel
- “Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
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