In the beginning of the reading, Winston is at his job. He edits and rewrites stories and news articles so that it looks like Big Brother's predictions are always right. I don't understand how he could look forward to his job and like it so much if he hates Big Brother and the Party. Is it because it just helps him get away from the reality of what is outside those walls? To escape what life is now like? It seems like he is dreaming, or he just woke up one day and everything was different, controlled, brainwashed... because he doesn't remember anything of his childhood or even just years back. How could someone or something just take away everyone's memory, altering the way people think and their opinions? The way the Party is set up, no one is permitted to have their own opinions about anything. Well, at least they can't express them, or they will be turned into the Thought Police.
While I was reading "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," I noticed that the book said that every mark or problem with a character means something. Then what does the ulcer on Winston's ankle symbolizes. The author keeps bringing it up so it has to mean something. What does it shows us about the character?
"Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system." I, personally, like this passage. I connects with the quote "I am my own best friend." Therefore, you are the best and the worst friend you could have. What he means by this is that you could give yourself away to the Thought Police. "The most deadly danger of all was talking in your sleep." Your unconscious can betray you involuntarily.
At the end of this section, Winston talks about his wife over ten years ago. He said that even she was under their control. She would not have sex with him unless it was for the reason to bare a child. They were unable to have a child, so they didn't last and eventually separated. How could he be with someone if they aren't even with him just for love? He didn't believe what the Party said, so how could he be with someone who did? What does Winston really have to live for?
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I agree with you in that Winston is trying to escape life. I think he knows how life should be but wants order in the way that he knows from Big Brother. I also agree with what you said about him and his wife and how it is crazy how they were able to last as long as they did if they didn't even love each other a little.
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