Blog #7

Orwell spends a great deal of time discussing Winston’s dreams. Discuss and analyze the dream sequence in Chapter 8. What does this dream suggest about Winston’s psychological state? Why might this dream be important to an understanding of Winston’s character? To the book as a whole?

I'm assuming we are supposed to talk about Winston's dream in Chapter 7, not in Chapter 8. In this dream, which takes place in the paperweight which reminds him of the past, he remembers his mother and how ungrateful he was with food and chocolate and wakes up crying. He tells Julia how he thought he might have murdered his mom when she asks him what is wrong, but now he realizes that he didn't kill her. The dream makes him realize how much he hates the party for taking away feelings and basically making the people inhuman. This shows that Winston is in kind of a fragile mental state. He's becoming a lot more aware of his emotions recently with his new love and remembering the past and his family. He's becoming more human, which I think he likes but the party definitely won't like.I think this dream shows how ready Winston is to fight the party and that he will soon. I think the book is about to get really interesting. I'm just waiting for him to get caught because it seems like he is long overdue, but there seems to be a lot of book left, so we'll see.