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?