The end....ing.

"I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt" (166). This is an example of paradox. The monster, upon the death of Victor, is saying that in order to lose all sense of sadness, he must die. Most people would consider death to be a very sad thing, but the monster does not feel this way. He knows that he needs to die to lose that sadness. This paradox shows that the monster can be overcome by emotion. He is sad that his creator die. Though most of his life was spent tormenting Victor, he does feel a connection to him. This is an ending that really fits the movie. The monster once again shows that he has as much human emotion as everyone else. How sad.

Paradox-ish.

"You are under the impression that hatred is more exhausting than love" (269). This quote by O'Brien is a paradox in that is contradicts what most people think about love and hate. Most believe that love is a good thing and hate is a bad thing, but this quote paints hate as a relaxing thing that takes little energy. This reveals the theme of hate being an easy way out. People in this society are much more willing to hate everyone than to love everyone. Love is something that takes work and one must constantly work at. The society of the book thrives on hate, and it makes it the easier, more readily available option for the people. O'Brien is explaining this concept to Winston through what seems to be a paradox, but is actually something that is very true. This reality is a scary thing for most. Most people want love to be a natural thing, but it is not. People must learn how to love and constantly work at it. Hate is easy, and is very prominent in this lazy society.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense.

Ms. Dickinson, you never disappoint. This poem made absolutely no sense to me. She seems to think that being mad is perfect or even divine. With how she writes, this doesn't surprise me. She also thinks that having sense makes a person mad. Obviously she is trying to be tricky here, and it's working. I think that she is trying to say that if a person thinks outside of the box, they are good thinkers, so they have divine sense. That kind of makes sense. If a person thinks like everyone else, then they don't think well, so they are "mad." She thinks that the brilliant people are the ones that think crazy yet genius thoughts. Maybe this is why she writes like she does?
Despite all of that, she uses a paradox of sanity and insanity to make the reader think. She obviously achieved that goal with me.
I didn't like this poem very much, but it was humorous to read, as most Dickinson poems are.

My favorite paradox.

"I hated him for making me stop hating him," (page 190). This is my favorite quote in the novel. It's a paradox that O'Brien uses to describe his situation with Jorgenson. Tim wanted to hate him. He wanted so badly to despise the guy and get revenge for the pain that he caused him. Despite that, Jorgenson's apology and remorse caused O'Brien to, against his will, forgive him. Tim hated that. He hated that he couldn't hate Jorgenson any more. He hated that he had been forced to forgive the man that caused him pain, and, subsequently, he hated that he could no longer hate the war that had brought on that pain.
O'Brien brings a great deal of timelessness to the novel with this one sentence. Every reader has wanted to be mad at someone, but that person has forced them, through their actions, to forgive them. The reader can easily relate to the story that O'Brien is telling and the feeling that the situation elicits.