Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Mrs Parson's children

The scene in the book where winston goes over to Mrs. Parsons house to fix her sink and the kids come up to winston and scream at him stands out to me alot about what kind of society the book is set in. In the scene the children yell at winston for being a thought criminal and a traitor and lept around him like "tiger cubs" and when the mom mentions the hanging that the kids didn't get to see the kids start screaming about that. To me it seems like while the adults are timid and nervous the chilren are much more loud and violent in the way they obey the rules of big brother and society. i think its because the adults sort of passively accept that they need to obey the rules of the society the children are active believers and followers to the big brothers ideals. they seem to be taught at a very young age to try and rat out adults that they think are acting against the rules and i think they try to do this at a young age because by the time they are adults this will all be drilled into their brain so much that no one will question athority and be very subserviant to whatever the higher powers want them to do.

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