Question 4

please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.

Julia speaks to Winston in chapter VI when they were talking what happened in room 101. Julia tells Winston that she hopes her torture to be shifted to Winston, and Winston says that he felt in the same way. Julia knew that she wanted the Party to Winston in order to save herself. The quote means that the physical pain will cause the people to betray the convictions if doing so will end thir suffrings.