Despite a slow start to the book, the ideology that’s relevant in this book compares strongly to areas that I have studied, and are currently studying. The most strongly related source of media that relates from my experience’s, is the story and movie V for Vendetta. In both cases, an oppressive political party rises and gains absolute control over the people. Where the only truths the people know are the ones that the government informs them of. Therefore, I find Winston’s struggle to continue to believe in a righteous past and hopeful intriguing. "To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone (28)”, Winston wrote in his diary.
I also find myself studying revolution in two different contexts in one day. Between the French and Haitian revolution that I’m studying in Global Radicalism today and the apparent revolution in 1984, the ideology is similar. Just as the peasants and poor formed uprisings against oppressive governments in their revolutions, I’m picking up on evidence that anticipates a revolution amongst the proles in 1984. “If there is hope”, wrote Winston”, “it lies in the proles (72)". I’m curious as to how he motivates and energizes the proles into an uprising.
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