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1984 S. Chasteen 7th (Characters (Julia, Parsons, Winston Smith, Mrs.…
1984 S. Chasteen 7th
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Setting
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Winston lives in London, UK
Plot
Book 1 (Winston)
Ch 1
- Winston indicates that his behavior is changed because he knows he is 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 govt buildings.
- In his diary, he describes going to the movies where the films are about blowing up refugees and immigrants while the audience laughs laughs and enjoys the show.
- There is a tv with a camera in his apt that watches him all the time while at the same time spewing propaganda about how great the govt is.
- Winston begins thinking about the 2 minutes hate from that morning: everyday around 11 they got together where ever they are (like the pledge) and spends 2 minutes watching screaming, and shouting at a commercial about the countries enemies (Eurasia) and the terrorist Goldstein. The commercial ends with Big Bother who calms the crowd.
- Winston's lunch break in his apartment
- Winston catches O'Brien's eye during the Hate and feels that O'Brien feels the same way about the 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 already caught him.
Ch 2
- Winston notices that Mrs. Parson has something in the lines of her face: (what can you infer about her from this detail?)
- Winston thinks about how terrified Mrs. Parsons is of her children, why?
- Winston meets the Parson children: (describe them)
- Winston considers again whether O'Brien is a friend or an enemy: what does he conclude about this?
- Winston describes the Parsons' apartment
- Winston goes over the party slogan (WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH)
- Winston describes her: (Physical and demeanor)
Winston finally writes a message to the future in his diary (perhaps showing what his true intention in keeping the diary is -- he hasn't even said to himself)-- read what he writes and consider what his world is like by thinking of the opposites of what he wrote: (5 points)
- Winston's neighbor comes over to ask for help with the sink drain
Ch 3
- When Winston wakes we find that he is forced every morning to do exercises by an authoritarian woman over 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 his past.
- The girl with the dark hair appears in the Golden Country and throws her party uniform aside. She is naked but Winston doesn't think of it as sexual and we are led to believe that she is free by not wearing the party uniform and that it could be that easy to sweep away the party ideology. She is natural and pure in his mind like the Golden Country.
- The party maintains complete control over the past. The party also demands complete submission to its authority if the party says black is white than you'd better believe it. this means doublethink.
- Winston's dream changes to the Golden Country, a idyllic, pastoral scene that is the opposite of the gritty, dirty city in which he lives. It's clean, beautiful, and natural.
- 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.
- 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?
Ch 4
- The Chocolate ration changes 35 grams to 25 grams after the Party had promised that there would be no reduction
- We're introduced to various co-workers
- Winston works in an office where everyone feels as though they are in competition with each other. Thus, everyone is suspicious of each other and slightly dislikes each other.
- Winston imagines that everyone is looking for an opportunity to stab each other in the back-- think about the culture that must create!
- 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
- We learn that winston loves doing his job. its lying for a living but at least he gets to challenge his mind and be creative
- We get our first examples of Newspeak. A shortened, simplified language designed to limit the thoughts people can have
- Winston creates Comrade Olgevy to replace Comrade Withers (who has become an unperson)
- Winston notes that when he is done forging history and the job of forgery is forgotten, Oglvy will be just as real as Julius Caesar or Charlemagne and will exist based on the same evidence
Ch 5
- Winston listens and thinks about how Syme will be vaporized. That he's to smart and speaks to plainly about things-- things that other people are trying to ignore
- Parsons shows up and begins to hound Winston about collecting money fro the decorations for the APT building during hate week later in the summer
- 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, if you can't say it you can't think it
- Mr. Duckspeak (some guy from the fiction dept) is rattling on and on about the principles of the party. Winston thinks he sounds like a duck and that its not the mans brain that producing the words but his throat (i.e. he's unconsciously spouting out party propaganda)
- Syme is working on Newspeak and explains that Newspeak is the national language
- Winston looks around him and thinks about how gets vaporized and who doesn't. He decides that being dumb helps but that its difficult to really say what type of person is safe in this society.
- Winston is eating lunch with Syme and eventually Parsons
- Parsons brags again about how horrible his children are, that they burned a woman alive for not showing enough respect to Big Brother. The kids are being trained as amateur spies. This is scary because its all a game to them, but can have adult consequences
Ch 6
- We find out that the party has to approve all marriages and will do so only if the couple isn't attracted ti each other. The party does not allow divorce.
- Winston hates their physical relationship because they simply go through emotions. There is no spark between them.
- Winston relays all his history with his wife Katherine who was tall, pretty blonde, but was exceedingly stupid. She feels that it is "her duty to the party"
- 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 he 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 by the end of the chapter he still feels horrible.
- Winston writes in his diary as way of confession and therapy to try and feel better about something he is ashamed of.