Resistance and 1984

    The lyrics of the song resistance are very well thought out to resemble 1984 but also to resemble every two lovers that cannot love each other because of the circumstances that they have been put in. The song talks about the inner struggle that faces both Winston and Julia when they go to the apartment. They are always faced with the fright of being caught. They understand that one day, someday they might be caught. yet understanding does not necessarily mean that the person embraces this idea or realizes the true implications of it. Everyone that is born knows that one day they shall die but whether they truly realize the true extent of what that means varies from person to person. What everyone does is that they tend to box there fears from death and place it in a corner of their brain telling themselves that today is surely not the day that they will die in. The same went for Winston and Julia they both had extreme fears of being caught but they used their love for each other to overcome that fear. This is what the writer means by 'love is our resistance' meaning that the only thing that keeps us from going insane from fright is our love for each other. For that love and for the love of resistance its self they have both been able to overcome their fear. This does not mean that every time they set foot into the apartment they are not afraid that this will be the time they will be caught but love is just there to help them overcome it.

War is Peace

Indeed war is peace. This is an important rule that I learned from reading 1984 by George Orwell. The easiest way for any country to have peace within is to go to war. No matter how many different races are in one country and no matter how much they hate each other. Once there is a common goal, a common enemy people forget who they are and focus on how to get there enemy. They all remember that no matter how much they might hate each other but in the end they all love their country. Think of a number of brothers and sisters they might have just had a huge fight with each other and are not speaking any more. As soon as one of them gets into a fight the rest of his brothers and sisters will stand up for him. This is exactly what happens in whole nations. The Party in 1984 understood this principle very well. That is why they were constantly at war with one of the other two World powers and at peace with the other one. They understood that as long as the people were kept busy with a feeling of danger that anything might happen they would also not protest the decisions of the Party, as long as the Party kept them safe. So it was basically a win – win situation for the party. They also knew that no side would ever win the other one so they would always be at war with each other. So in order to achieve peace within there has to be a war outside. Simple.