" for whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn... For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
1984, George Orwell
Do we write for the future? Do we write to conquer a better world? Or Do we write to unleash ourselves from the power of our thoughts?
Even though, writing was a prove of his crime, it gave Wiston freedom. Miriam Joy wrote:
"Putting things into word makes them easy to bear. Because it means you've beaten them. If they're words on paper, they're just like the stories you write. Which means they can't be real. I mean, stories are just things you think up"
What she says is that we write stories to have control over them, and in the same way, we write our feelings and reflections down as a way to have control over them. At least, we can control what we think. At the same time, as we discussed in class, there is nothing more real than what is written. Of what can I be sure if not of the words in a paper? Simple stories and thoughts, rebellions and plans are not real until they are put on paper.
As in 1984, we are constantly been slaved by society, routines, social media, technology, political parties and our own expectations or hopes or a better life. We find different outlets and ways of escaping and feeling control. For some it might be a public manifestation, or a social media unplug. For Wistonit was his diary and I believe that THAT has a. Strong connection with our reality: Facebook, Twitter and blogs have become a constant outlet for our feelings of discontentment, frustration and uncondformism. We live constantly slaved by our DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY OF ONES, where the individual is the most important and as Wiston, we constantly searching for someone that shares our same line of thought always uncertain of who really believes or not. We write with the hope of finding a confident in crime.
" writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to scape the madness, melancholy, the madness and fear which is inherent in a human situation" Graham Greene
Do we write to rebel against something? As a reaction or response? Or we write to scape from the power of thoughts and ideas? When something occurs, when we get a brilliant idea, when we discover a secret, our mind does not rest until we utter it ( writing a diary, writing your bff, writing to all your Facebook friends) there is a need for a confident and writing frees us, keeping thought from controlling us and managing to control them on the paper. Words are powerful, but writing them down empowers us. OR AT LEAST THAT IS HOW WE FEEL.
1984, part 1, chapter 7 , page 7
Miriam Joy, October 2013, www.miriamjoywrites.com
Graham Greene, Ways of escape, www.goodreads.com
I absolutely agree with the idea that words and ideas are the ones which have power. Sometimes when we have ideas or we feel sensation we try to write them in order to be real. It is really easy to realize this when we see on Twitter how many people tweet their feelings or ideas about a topic and in Facebook when people post comments about almost everything.
ResponderEliminarI think we try to write our ideas or emotions in order to become them real. Maybe, we are not going to show the world what our ideas are (or maybe we are, more and more people post everything in the social media nowadays) because there are people who still have diaries in which they write about the lives which are private.
Commonly in Twitter we can find a lot of twitter accounts anonymously writing against almost everything; politics, celebrities, ordinary people, their parents, their friends, everything! and I believe that is because we have this sort of natural feeling of complaining about everything and also because we tend to share things with other people (that can be strangers) in order to feel released of that thought because has been shared.