The Host Vs. 1984

Stephenie MeyerAshley Brooks, Elise Felber, Katie Maffei, Dean

Rago

The Host

• Stephenie Meyer• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517260/

1984

• George Orwell

Relationships

Love

The Host• “The love we felt for Jamie and

Jared did feel very permanent. In that moment, I wondered if death was strong enough to dissolve something so vital and sharp” (114).

• “Melanie’s love flowed through me like a lake bursting through a dam, distracting me even more from the enraged barbarian closing the distance quickly” (260).

• “Even if you’re not there, if you can’t hear me. I love you” (301).

1984• “Oh it was written, in a large

uniformed handwriting: I love you” (108).

• “He wished that they were a married couple of ten years’ standing. He wished that he were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now, but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and ends for the household. He wished above all that they had some place where they could be alone together” (139).

Change in Relationships

The Host• “I had friends now. Doc, Trudy, Lily,

Wes, Walter, Heath. Strange humans who could overlook what I was and see something they didn’t have to kill. Maybe it was just curiosity, but regardless if that, they were willing to side with me against the rest of their tight-knit family of survivors.” (226)

• “I find myself unable to be the death of you, Wanda. I can’t stand it” (531).

1984• “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!

Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (286).

• “He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (298).

Hate

The Host• “The very word seeker

made her recoil with hatred, and she knew these strangers would have the same reaction” (121).

• “To hate her so much that I wanted her to die. To have her die while I hated her. Almost as if she died because of my hate” (504).

1984• “’Tell me, what are your

true feelings toward Big Brother?’ ‘I hate him’” (282).

• “But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred” (126).

Rebellion

Ability to Rebel

The Host• “But your consciousness….Seems like

some people wouldn’t go down without a fight. Hell, I know I would try to stay – never been one to take no for an answer, anyone will tell you that. I’m a fighter. All of us who are left are fighters. And, you know, I pegged Mel for a fighter, too” (214)

• "I Wanderer give up? Quit? Admit failure and try again with a weak, spineless host who wouldn’t give me any trouble?" (48).

1984• "O‘Brien held up his left hand,

its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended."

• "How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?"

• "Four." • "And if the part says that it is

not four but five-- then how many?" (249).

Against Authority

The Host• “The danger is behind! I screamed back in

my mind. But I see what they mean. A feeble stream of light, coming from who knows where, shines on the end of the hall. It is not the flat wall or the locked door, the dead end I feared and expected, It is a black locked hole” (11).

• “It would be wrong to tell her what I knew…I countered my own thought viciously. If I stopped here and listened to the seductive suggestions of my host, I would truly be a traitor. That was impossible. I was a soul. And yet I knew what I wanted, more powerfully and vividly than anything I had ever wanted in all the eight lives I’d lived” (90).

1984• “The thing he was about to

do was open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced labor camp” (6).

Rebellion Against Family

The Host• “When Dad didn’t come back –

though his body did eventually, trying to lead the Seekers to us – it was the most horror and the most fear and the most pain I’d ever felt. What if I do that to Jamie again?” (85).

• “The much-aged woman named Maggie lunged forward with a speed that belied her brittle exterior. She didn’t raise the hand that held the black crowbar. That was the hand I was watching, so I didn’t see her free hand swing out to slap me hard across the face” (123).

1984• “With those children, he thought,

that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy” (24).

• “The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police” (133).

Fear

Fear of Authority

The Host• “Every time I had to carry out one of

these simple directives, I was in a sweaty haze of fear. I concentrated on being invisible and walked as quickly as I could without running through the big rooms and the dark corridors” (242).

• “I’d skimmed through the histories of human atrocities. I’d had no stomach for them. Perhaps I should have concentrated better. I knew that there were reasons why humans let their enemies live for a little while. Things they wanted from their minds or their bodies” (121).

1984• “The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own. It

was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you- something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses” (80).

• “They were not touching, but it seemed to him that he could feel Julia’s body shaking. Or perhaps it was merely the shaking of his own. He could just stop his teeth from chattering, but his knees were beyond his control. There was a sound of trampling boots below, inside the house and outside” (222).

Fear of Death

The Host• “I didn’t miss the fact that the

picks and hoes that were breaking the earth could easily be used to break a body. It seemed to me, in a reading of a few of their expressions, that I wasn’t the only one with that idea”(23).

• “I felt the blood drain from my face as I realized why they held their hands so oddly – gripped tightly in front of them, each balancing an object. They held weapon” (120).

1984• “Both of them knew – in a way, it was never out

of their minds – that what was now happening could not last long. There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they should cling together with a sort of despairing, sensuality, like a damned soul grasping as his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking” (151).

• “ But it was frightening; or more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. Even while he was speaking to O’Brien, when the meaning of the words had sunk in, a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him” (159).

Moral Decay

Lack of Rights

The Host • “To leave me alone…that

wouldn’t be in character with their brutality, their natural fear and hatred of what I was” (138).

• “It was a very strange combination: constant terror, persistent aching physical discomfort, and excruciating monotony. Of the three, the killer boredom was the hardest to take. My prison was a sensory-deprivation chamber” (175).

1984• “In the vast majority of cases there was

no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night” (19).

• "…Practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive" (205).

Invasion of Privacy

The Host • “Instead of lurking silently

and invisibly in the outside tunnel, Jared spread his bedroll directly in front of the mouth of my prison” (174).

• “I’ll just keep watch while you sleep” (220).

1984• "There was of course no way of

knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized" (3).

Isolation from Society

The Host• “I was all alone in my head-

exactly what I had once wanted. It made me feel lost” (323).

• “We have to take you back inside. We promised…that you wouldn’t be conscious” (357).

1984• "He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that

nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken" (27).

• "Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories" (155).

• "'If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent'" (270).

Conclusion

• “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished” (298).

• The Host – Melanie and Wanda were separated and could enjoy life together

• Winston transformed into a supporter of Big Brother

• There was a resolution that made everything clear and made everything come together.

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