Rebellion and Hope Flashcards
The book = sus
It “told him nothing that was new”
OB = sus
In the place where there is no darkness — links to Rissanen echo
OB = unorthodox?
Perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope — that OB’s orthodoxy was not perfect.
Even W rebels
A smallish, frail figure
Sex rebellion
It was a political act
Diff between J and W rebellion
You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards
Rebellion doomed
We are the dead.
You are the dead
Paperweight = the past
The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness.
Rebellion = paperweight
It had all occurred inside the glass paperweight. Beautiful, feeling global, rooted in the past, but ultimately smashed. “How small it always was”
Appendix
Past tense. Essay style, interested in what has happened and critical of language
Power of Love
At the sight of the words /I love you/ the desire to stay alive had welled up in him.
The Book = rebellion
Dictated by OB cf Rissanen. You can never truly understand the society, rebellion is fragmented.
Diary = rebellion
W believes power is in its secrecy but in reality that means it won’t spread. Paper, thus history, are gone, W is the only one who it will apply to.
Thrush = symbol of rebellion
“He wasn’t singing to us […] he was just singing.” Like the proles who sing, a naturalistic urge and a beauty in its lack of purpose vs P’s functionalism
Proles who sing
They pass on “the vitality which the P did not share and could not kill.” — Links to Mullen, “belly”
