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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />
resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too,<br />
had a sheep-like quality. Goldstein was<br />
<strong>de</strong>livering his usual venomous attack upon the<br />
doctrines of the Party— an attack so exaggerated<br />
and perverse that a child should have been able to<br />
see through it, and yet just plausible enough to<br />
fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people,<br />
less level-hea<strong>de</strong>d than oneself, might be taken in<br />
by it. He was abusing Big Brother, he was<br />
<strong>de</strong>nouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was<br />
<strong>de</strong>manding the immediate conclusion of peace<br />
with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of<br />
speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of<br />
assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying<br />
hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed<br />
—and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which<br />
was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the<br />
orators of the Party, and even contained<br />
Newspeak words: more Newspeak words,<br />
in<strong>de</strong>ed, than any Party member would normally<br />
use in real life. And all the while, lest one should<br />
be in any doubt as to the reality which<br />
Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his<br />
head on the telescreen there marched the endless<br />
columns of the Eurasian army— row after row of<br />
solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic<br />
faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen<br />
and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly<br />
similar. The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers'<br />
boots formed the background to Goldstein's<br />
bleating voice.<br />
Before the Hate had procee<strong>de</strong>d for thirty seconds,<br />
uncontrollable exclamations of rage were<br />
breaking out from half the people in the room.<br />
The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen,<br />
and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army<br />
behind it, were too much to be borne: besi<strong>de</strong>s, the<br />
sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced<br />
fear and anger automatically. He was an object of<br />
hatred more constant than either Eurasia or<br />
Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with<br />
one of these Powers it was generally at peace<br />
with the other. But what was strange was that<br />
although Goldstein was hated and <strong>de</strong>spised by<br />
everybody, although every day and a thousand<br />
times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in<br />
newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted,<br />
smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze<br />
for the pitiful rubbish that they were —in spite of<br />
Parecía el rostro <strong>de</strong> una oveja y su misma voz tenía<br />
algo <strong>de</strong> ovejuna. Goldstein pronunciaba su habitual<br />
discurso en el que atacaba venenosamente las<br />
doctrinas <strong>de</strong>l Partido; un ataque tan exagerado y<br />
perverso que hasta un niño podía darse cuenta <strong>de</strong><br />
que sus acusaciones no se tenían <strong>de</strong> pie, y sin<br />
embargo, lo bastante plausible para que pudiera uno<br />
alarmarse y no fueran a <strong>de</strong>jarse influir por insidias<br />
algunas personas ignorantes. Insultaba al Gran<br />
Hermano, acusaba al Partido <strong>de</strong> ejercer una<br />
dictadura y pedía que se firmara inmediatamente la<br />
paz con Eurasia. Abogaba por la libertad <strong>de</strong> palabra,<br />
la libertad <strong>de</strong> Prensa, la libertad <strong>de</strong> reunión y la<br />
libertad <strong>de</strong> pensamiento, gritando histéricamente<br />
que la revolución había sido traicionada. Y todo<br />
esto a una rapi<strong>de</strong>z asombrosa que era una especie <strong>de</strong><br />
parodia <strong>de</strong>l estilo habitual <strong>de</strong> los oradores <strong>de</strong>l<br />
Partido e incluso utilizando palabras <strong>de</strong> neolengua,<br />
quizás con más palabras neolingüísticas <strong>de</strong> las que<br />
solían emplear los miembros <strong>de</strong>l Partido en la vida<br />
corriente. Y mientras gritaba, por <strong>de</strong>trás <strong>de</strong> él<br />
<strong>de</strong>sfilaban interminables columnas <strong>de</strong>l ejército <strong>de</strong><br />
Eurasia, para que nadie interpretase como simple<br />
palabrería la oculta maldad <strong>de</strong> las frases <strong>de</strong><br />
Goldstein. Aparecían en la pantalla filas y más filas<br />
<strong>de</strong> forzudos soldados, con impasibles rostros<br />
asiáticos; se acercaban a primer término y<br />
<strong>de</strong>saparecían. El sordo y rítmico clap—clap <strong>de</strong> las<br />
botas militares formaba el contrapunto <strong>de</strong> la hiriente<br />
voz <strong>de</strong> Goldstein.<br />
Antes <strong>de</strong> que el Odio hubiera durado treinta<br />
segundos, la mitad <strong>de</strong> los espectadores lanzaban<br />
incontenibles exclamaciones <strong>de</strong> rabia. La satisfecha<br />
y ovejuna faz <strong>de</strong>l enemigo y el terrorífico po<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong>l<br />
ejército que <strong>de</strong>sfilaba a sus espaldas, era <strong>de</strong>masiado<br />
para que nadie pudiera resistirlo indiferente.<br />
A<strong>de</strong>más, sólo con ver a Goldstein o pensar en él<br />
surgían el miedo y la ira automáticamente. Era él un<br />
objeto <strong>de</strong> odio más constante que Eurasia o que<br />
Asia Oriental, ya que cuando Oceanía estaba en<br />
guerra con alguna <strong>de</strong> estas potencias, solía hallarse<br />
en paz con la otra. Pero lo extraño era que, a pesar<br />
<strong>de</strong> ser Goldstein el blanco <strong>de</strong> todos los odios y <strong>de</strong><br />
que todos lo <strong>de</strong>spreciaran, a pesar <strong>de</strong> que apenas<br />
pasaba día — y cada día ocurría esto mil veces —<br />
sin que sus teorías fueran refutadas, aplastadas,<br />
ridiculizadas, en la telepantalla, en las tribunas<br />
públicas, en los periódicos y en los libros... a pesar<br />
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