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1984 by George Orwell (Chapter 7 (the thought police move about them and…
1984 by George Orwell
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Chapter 1
- Winston indicates that his behavior is changed because he knows he's being watched all the time.
- Winston commits a capital crime in ch.1 by beginning to write in a diary.
- Winston describes London as old and decayed except for the gov't buildings.
- In his diary he describes going to the movies where the films are about blowing up refugees and immigrants while the audience laughs and enjoys the show.
- There is a TV with a camera in it at his apartment That watches him all the time while at the same time spewing propaganda about how great the government is.
- Winston begins thinking about the 2 minutes hate from that morning. everyday around 11 they get together where ever they are. ( like the pledge) and spend 2 minutes watching, screaming, and shouting at a commercial about the countries enemies. (eurasia) and the terrorist Goldstein. The commercial ends with big brother who calms the cloud.
- Winston's Lunch break is at his apartment.
- Winston catches O'Brian's eye during the Hate and feels that O'Brian feels the same way about he party that Winston does. That he hates big brother. The chapter ends with a knock at Winston's door and he thinks the thought police has always caught him.
Chapter 2.
- Winston defies big brother by starting a diary. after finding a spot on his apartment that Big Brother can't see.
- Winston is disgusted by the actions of the children. He knows they will grow up to be obedient members of the party.
- He follows Mrs. Parson to her apartment. The parson children tell him to freeze and put his hands up while they are playing.
- His neighbor knocks on his door and asks him if he can fix her sink.
Chapter 3.
- Winston's dream changes to the golden country, an idyllic pastoral scene that is the opposite of the dirty gritty city he lives in.
- The girl with the dark hair appears in the golden country and throws her party uniform aside. She is naked but winston does not think of it in a sexual way. we are led to believe that she is free by not wearing the party uniformm. and it could be that easy to sweep away the parties ideology. She is natural, pure in his mind like the golden country.
- Winston is dreaming of his mother and sister. We are beginning to get the idea that dreams are important and wonder what significance they hold.
- When winston wakes we find that every morning to do excursuses by an authoritarian woman on the tele screen.
- Again, we are shown that Winston is in poor health as he coughs his way into the routine. as he works out, he lets his mind wonder about the past.
- The party maintains complete control over the past. The party also demands complete submission to it's authority. If the party says black is white than you'd better believe it. this means doublethink.
- Doublethink is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your head and believe them both to be true, usually as an act of self preservation.
chapter 4.
- Winston works in an office where everyone feels as though they are in competition with each other. Thus, everyone is suspicious and slightly dislikes each other.
- The Chocolate ration decreased 35 grams to 25 grams after the party had promised that there would be no reduction.
- Winston works at the ministry of truth where he changes the old news stories to make the party and BB look as if they are ALWAYS correct and therefore completely in control.
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- Winston imagines that everyone is looking for an opportunity to stab each other in the back.
- We learn that winston loves his job . He's lying for a living but atlas it challenges his brain.
- We get our first examples of newspeak . a shortened version of english. A language designed to limit the range of thought people have.
- Winston creates comrade Oglvy to replace comrade Withers (who has become an unperson.)
- Winston notes that when he is done forging history his job of forgery will be forgotten. Oglvy will be just as real as julian caesar and will exist based on the same evidence.
Ch 5
- He says that the point of Newspeak is to limit the range of language so that it limits the range of thought since humans think in language.
- Winston listens and thinks about how Syme will be vaporized. That he's too smart and speaks to plainly about things.
- Syme is working on newspeak and explains that newspeak is the national language.
- Parsons shows up and begins to hound winston about collecting money for the decorations for the apartment building during the hate week later in the summer.
- Winston is eating lunch with Syme and Parsons
- Mr. Duckspeak (some guy from the fiction department) is rattling on and on about the principles of the party. Winston thinks he sounds like a duck and that it's not the man's brain that producing the words but his throat.
- Parsons brags again about how horrible his children are. that they burned a woman alive for not showing respect for big brother. The kids are being trained as amateur spies. this is scary because it's all a game to them but it can have adult consequences.
- Winston looks around him and thinks about who gets vaporized and who doesn't he decides that being dumb helps but its difficult to really say what type of person is safe in this society.
6.
- We find out that the party has to approve of all marriages and will only do so if the couple isn't attracted to each other. The party does not allow divorce.
- Winston hates their physical relationship because they simply go through the motions. There is no spark between them.
- Winston relays his history with his wife Katherine who was a tall pretty blonde, But who is exceedingly stupid. she feels that it is her duty to the party to bear children. beyond that it seems as if she is only able to repeat party propaganda.
- We can infer from Winston's Diary that every couple of years he visits a prostitute as a way of rebelling against the party but also for his own personal gratification. although he is ashamed and disgusted by the visits.
- We find out that the party sees real love affairs as threats to the party because you might end up caring about that person more than big brother.
- Winston had hoped to get rid of his guilty conscience by writing about it but at the end of the chapter he still feels horrible.
1.Winston writes in his diary as way of confession and therapy to try and feel better about something he is ashamed of.
Chapter 7
- the thought police move about them and get rid of anyone who's become dangerous. otherwise they are left alone. (they are beneath suspicion.) the party slogan "proles and animals are free".
- Winston reads from a children's history textbook the story of capitalism in the early 20th century. but it seems a bit mixed up with the feudal system complete with the king of the capitalists.
- Winston describes the way in which the proles live. they are simple, they work hard, they live in delapitated buildings. They are not political just patriotic. Beer football and gambling filled up the horizons of their mind.
- Winston realizes that this history book is a lie because he remembers differently. he thinks. the past for him is unclear since he was only little after the war and shortly before the revolution.
- He remembers how once walking down a street there was a huge commotion over some saucepans for sale. it's so loud that he thinks a riot has started. 3000 people yelling at each other.
- He then goes through the recent history that this fairly certain of and claims of the party since them. the party claims to have made life better in almost every way since the 1960's but there is no way to prove any of it.
1.Wnston is writing in his diary again. he is amused that the proles are the only hope of overthrowing the party since they are 85% of the population.
- just once. shortly after his wife left, he found solid documentary evidence that the party was changing the past.
- 3 party members who were part of the early revolution. Jones, Arronson, and Rutherford. had been accused of flying to russia and trading secrets. They were arrested , tried and imprisoned.
- Winston concludes the chapter with the statement. " I understand HOW. I do not understand"
- after several years those men were set free and then rearrested and confessed to all sorts of anti party crimes. they were tried and put to death.
- Problem is. winston found a picture from a news paper that proved the original charges against them were false. he destroyed the picture but the memory of that information has lived on and continued to bother him.