final chapters

Book 3 Chapter 4
1) He is able to move more. He now has a bed and a pillow. Things are becoming more relaxed and he is getting fed on a regular basis, he is able to workout by running his cell and pushups ect. He is starting to get fatter and gain flesh and strength. He thinks about his mom, Julia and O’Brian when he dreams. He is starting to lose his past thought is slowly starting to fade yet he still writes god is power and that he hates big brother. However he now believes 2+2=5
2) In his journal he writes god is power, which is a sign of rebellion against big brother. As well as him dreaming of Julia and the way things were.
3) He still hates him yet he has reoccurring images of where his faith is starting to break through to him.
Book 3 Chapter 5
1) He is strapped to a chair when O’Brian brings in a cage of hungry rats that doubles as a mask in which opens up the rats to his face. This cures Winston because his fear of the rats over comes his feelings for Julia and he exclaims to have them torture Julia instead.
Book 3 Chapter 6
1) The Chestnut Tree. Sitting in the corner drinking Victory Gin.
2) Winston works for a sub committee of a sub committee where they argue about whether commas go inside or outside of brackets.
3) It went well, they sat there and talked and mentioned how they both betrayed each other. Eventually they walked away and parted. They did not see each other again even though they both agreed they wanted to see each other again.
4) He admits to Julia and himself that he is no longer in love with her. He now loves Big Brother and agrees with the party and is proud of them.
5) He pays no more attention to things around him as he is back in the ministry of love and wishes to die. That a bullet would just go through his brain because he wants to die pure with his faith intact with Big Brother. He loves Big Brother.

Book 3, chp 2

What sort of treatment does Winston receive?
- He is locked up and hooked up to an electric shocking torturing device that sends pulses threw his body by the turn of a switch that O'Brian has. There are different levels of punishment.
What is O'Brian attempting to teach Winston?
- He is trying to teach him that the party is always right and what they say goes. No matter how ridiculous it may seem.
O'Brian explains how the Inner Party avoids the mistakes of past totalitarian governments. State in your own words what O'Brian means?
- He is referring to that fact that the Inner Party has ways to get themselves out of trouble and from be blamed for their mistakes. The Inner Party rewrites their history and somewhat brain wash their people to prevent up rises.
What effect does the (painless) shock treatment have on Winston?
- It causes forgetfulness. Making him think the way the party wants him too. However, it only last for so long until it wears off.
What questions does Winston ask O'Brian and what are the responses?
- He asks him questions about Julia and what they have done with her. O'Brian then tells him that should is as good as gone. That she has been reconverted to the party.

Book 3, chp 1

Where is Winston? How is he treated there and why?
- Winston is in the ministry of love for his thought crimes after being caught with Julia. This is his supposed place where there is no darkness because he the light are always on, they don't let you sleep or eat. Anytime he tries to do anything he gets yelled at by the telescreen. He has no idea if he is 10 stories under ground or 30 above it. He has no idea of telling what time of day it is and all he know's is that he is just sitting there as people come and go.
Which of Winston's acquaintances is in the place and why?
-Parson's, because his little daughter heard him say "down with Big Brother" while he was asleep. He isn't mad at his daughter however. He is proud of her.
What happens between the starving man and the chinless man?
-The starving man attempts to give the chinless man a piece of bread, but the person through the telescreen commands him to drop it. The chinless man puts his hands behind his back to show that he was not going to take it.
What effect to the words "Room 101" have on the skull faced man?
-He completely freaks out. He begs and begs for them to not take him there. He tells them he will tell them anything they want to know about anything they want to know. He says they should just take is family and cut their throats right infront of him. As the guards drap him out of there he tries to blame it on the chinless man. Saying that he is the one they want. Not him.
Who truly is O'Brian? What do he and Charrington have in common?
-O'Brian is one of the thought police who were undercover. Him and Charrington both are part of the thought police and they ratted him and Julia out..

Book 2 themes and language

Bood 2 symbols

Clock- Winston and Julia always think they have more time than they do. The clock is on it’s own time, and isn’t following the rest of the clocks in society. Winston and Julia are like the clock because they are on their own time and they are following the clock that isn’t the same as the rest of the clocks in the society.

Paperweight- Symbolizes Winston’s and Julia’s relationship. It’s a symbol of their own little world and place. The coral was Julia’s life. When they get caught, the paper weight gets smashed just like their relationship did at that same moment.

The singing Prole woman- The song is a sad song, but when she sings it, she makes it sound pretty. It represents that Julia’s and Winston’s relationship was always hopeless, as well as the idea of a new beginning.

Nursery Rhyme about the bells- it represents churches which represents the lower class, and Winston thinks that the lower class are going to be the ones to rebel against the government and overthrow it. The rhyme is Big Brother saying that the rebel and overthrow of the government is never going to happen.

Laws protect Freedom: We think that the Law protects either yourself and your safety, or other people from what you are going to do, and not necessarily your freedom, because to be free is to do whatever you wish without a penalty. For example you could drive around without wearing a seatbelt if you chose, and not get a fine for it.

What is my greatest fear.

Growing old.

chapter questions

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.

-The inner party has a slightly more free home life that is also more devoloped. With the ability to turn off there telescreens and they also have better food.

2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?

-He simply asks them a few questions to see how serious they are about it and to make sure that they knew the risks involved.

3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?

-He tells him that he won't really know anyone else in the Brotherhood and more then likely he will not see their efforts pay off. He gives Winston a book with the rest of the information.

4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?

-He stages a drop of a suitcase that Winston is to then pick up.

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984?

-To show us how the system of Big Brother is tainted or corrupted.

2. What three classes of people have always existed?

-Upper, middle, lower

3. In What ways have these three classes changed?

-As far the classes being changed they havn't as far as anybody knows. Although the names have been changed to keep people from uprising. The idea of a "lower" class could set some people off.

4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984?

-To keep support of the people and to keep from a revolution.

5. What are the two aims of the Party?

-The want to control every aspect of land and to abolish any possibility of free thought.

6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned?

- That they need to gain control pieces of land in which they don't already own and to gain/ keep control of the people within their nation.

7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners?

- Because they don't want them to create a sense of unity and to talk and realize they the same lies and ways of controlling them are going on in other superstates.

8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist?

-Both groups are alike in sense that they divid the people into groups in order to control them. They keep themselves alike and to be of the same power so that one doesn't just take over everyone else. And they use eachother to gain control of their own people by claiming one another is their "enemy" and that they are at war with them. Even though they never see anything that would even show them at being at war.

9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace."

-War is peace, is a term used by the government because claiming to be at war allows them to have peace.

10. What are the aims of the three groups?

- the upper class doesn't really care for change because life is already good.
the middle class envies the upper class the lower class hates them both because they get the short end of the stick so they want a revolution against the whole system.

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century?

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12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century?

13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants?
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14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power?
15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power?
16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world?
17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class?
-It is Big Brother way of dumbing people down. It makes them use smaller and smaller words and eventually it will be at that there will not be a word to describe even the thought to revolt against big brother. It's purpose to the ruling class is that this will keep them powerful or at least help make them powerful because the lower classes won't know what to do. They will be too controlled by the system.
18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?

Chapters 3-5

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
They meet in the woods, in crowded streets, the church, talking under their breath in the market.
What is Julia’s job?
She works in the fiction department of novel writing machines
What is her background?
She's 26 and lives in a Hostel with 30 other girls. She doesn't remember much of things before the 60's. The only person she remembers even knowing is her grandfather who disappeared when she was 8(vaporised). She was the Captain of the hockey team, won gymnastics two years running. She was also a troop leader of the spies and branch secretary in the youth league before joining the junior anti-sex league.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
She hates them. She believes they are dirty swine who are opposed to the very things they do everyday.
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Winston likes Julia but to her it is mostly just sex. Which is probably because Winston is old enough to know what it is like to have relationship and what it means.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
Because they are both uncontrollable instincts. It creates emotions between people and the party doesn't want people to feel emotions which could potentially rise against them. The party doesn't want people to create bonds. It wants more of the just individual population.
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He likes her because he thinks she is beautiful and he thinks that what she is doing is beautiful. Even though Julia hates her and says that she is monstrous. Winston thinks her singing is a symbol of rebellion which is why he likes her all the more.
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Scent, taste, touch, sight and hearing. All five of the senses are mentioned in the story probably to show how they don't get to truly experience these often and for their lifestyle even the simplest of things can spark a whole new meaning and experience.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston hates the rats, absolutely terrified which is probably from a past memory in his childhood. Julia on the other hand isn't really effected by them. She just throws her shoe to make it goes away and she says she can get rid of them for him the next time they come over there.
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
They mean something to him because it reminds him of the time before big brother. Before the revolution.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
The paperweight was the room they were in and the coral was Julia's & Winston's life, fixed in eternity at the heart of the crystal inside it.
Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
Syme has vanished. Winston checks the Chess Committee which he was a part of and he now is no longer on the board. Winston now knows he was too smart and was taken by the thought police. Probably to be vaporised.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
They decorate everything with banners and pretty posters. They pass out fliers, have meetings and presentations. Which the inner party all works overtime in order to prepare for everything.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
She is a women and he is a man? There is somewhere near a 15 year age difference between the two of them.

1984 and life today.

-Reduced freedom of individuals for the "good" of the country

-Increased public surveillance(buses, airports, trains, cameras)

-Increased private surveilance/ email, phone records, wire tapping) no privacy

-propaganda and how the country changes it's opinions and expects the people to follow their actions

-The media and how it distracts from what is going on in the country with sports and scandals

Study Questions

Book Two, Chapter 1 How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it? -He thinks that she is the Thought Police and is trying to get him to kill himself or turn himself in. He thinks that she might be trying to trick him. How does Winston react to the note after he reads it? -He is sceptical but lastly he thinks that she could be telling the truth. Which he then starts to think about her. Where do they manage to talk for the first time? -In the Canteen mumbling words in between bites of food. Where do they plan to meet? -In the woods(Golden Country) meeting there after an intricate journey there so nobody can follow them. What do Winston and Julia do before they part? -They hold hands Book Two, Chapter 2 Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia? -Because he is so much older then her. She is very attractive and youthful but he just isn't sure where this is going or what she wants from him. What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market? -Chocolate, good chocolate What are Julia’s ideas about the Party? -She doesn't like them. She believes that they are filthy swine that they do exactly what they are fighting against. They make themselves look alot better then they are. What familiar sign does Winston find? -The Golden Country. While he is walking through the woods on the beaten path. It reminds him of image he sees in his dream. Which could possibly be an image from his youth. Before Big Brother. What is the significance of the thrush music? - It is something that can not be heard in the city do too the machines. It is that of him being free. Like the birds in the trees or the brief instance when Winston and Julia are "rebelling" against Big Brother. What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters? -He means that he loves that fact that she rebels. He likes anything that is corrupt. In which the more she has done it the more he likes her.

notes

The king sends for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who are Hamlet's friends from when he was younger to spy on him and see what he is up too. Creating false statements for them to find out about.
Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger which is a metephor for the is a pimp but he doesn't exactly pick up on this. Hamlet knows that Polonius is calling him crazy and that he is asking questions to spy on him but he just goes along with it and actually pretends to be some what crazy or like he has lost his mind in order to spy on people around himself; trying to see how other people act to this.
metephors of prostition
themes of curruption and lying/ spying reappear.
hamlet is referred to as bad as he is used in a metaphor as a maggot where he says that the sun can bring the good as well as the bad.

scene 1.1

1) The intrest starts off when the ghost of old hamlet appears, their old king. Who when he shows up he is full armor gear which draws intrest because that was not his normal atire. Giving the question to those who see him. What is going on? What is about to happen? When the guards attempt to ask him questions he does not reply.
2) Given the fact that when they find out he is their dead king, he is in full armor which arises the question of why and what is going to happen. The guards tend to question what is going on and when they look at other nations and what has happened to them after the death of their kings.
3) When the ghost reappears the guards try to do anything they can to get his attention or to stay since he will not talk to any of them. They ask the ghost to meet Hamlet, which builds greater intrest.
4) Well being that a ghosts shows up and that he will not speak. No one knowing why he is there i would say the mood is Confused.
5) One reason is that the ghost is that of their dead king and being that he is in his armor that no good is too come. Second, is the fact that he wont talk and keeps showing up and know one knows why.
6) That he is there to warn them. That their current king will have no good to come from him.
7)guards: Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo. and then the ghost of old hamlet.
8) He mentions that Old King Hamlet and King Fortinbras were enemies and that they once had a battle.
9) the son of old king fortinbras
10) That once Julius Cesar died that Rome had a similar thing happed to them. That they saw the ghost of Julius and later Rome fell. Causing them to think that their fate may be the same.
11) Horatio does not believe the ghost is real, but Barnardo and Marcellus do.
12) because they thought it would take someone who was smart to be able to talk to the ghost of old king hamlet and Horatio is a scholar. However they were wrong.
13) That the relationship with Denmark and Norway is similar to old king hamlet and king fortinbras.

new vocab

Apparition-noun
a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith
- I thought I saw an apparition learking around my yard, it turns out it was a regular person.
Calumnious-adjective
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory
K.C. got busted using calumnious language this morning and will be getting detention.