#winston doesn’t die physically he dies mentally the bullet in his brain is a metaphor!!!!!!

[alphacrone]

my villain origin story is that my tenth grade english teacher misunderstood the ending of 1984 and argued with me over it in front of the entire class and would not even consider that i was right (i was)

#winston doesn’t die physically he dies mentally the bullet in his brain is a metaphor!!!!!! #she was like idk why they didn’t kill him at the end of the movie adaptation and i was like???? #bc they didn’t have to???? that’s the point????? #the govt doesn’t have to kill you physically to stop you #they kill your mind and spirit #this was right around the time of the obama-mccain election too so we were at the end of #eight years of dubya and cheney so i was i suppose an annoying radicalized 15 year old #but still like idk how you can read an obvious metaphor and take it so literally #it’s almost a throwaway line #she was still one of my favorite teachers but i never forgave her for this #i suppose no teacher wants an insufferable know it all to call them out in front of everyone #but she was making herself look bad first