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        <title><![CDATA[How does O'Brien help Winston Smith understand himself better ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does O'Brien help Winston Smith understand himself better ?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a written play some of the techniques are clarifying the beginning,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-differences-between-techniques-used-written-113819</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In a written play some of the techniques are clarifying the beginning, middle and end. Then the playwright must construct an arc of action--the action that moves the characters from the beginning to the end of the play.  In addition, the writer must create character arcs, which means each character must change from the beginning to the end of the play. These arcs I speak of, refer to how the action develops. For example, a character wants or...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:52:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the differences between techniques used in written play and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the differences between techniques used in written play and in movie? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:33:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the top is Big Brother.
Next is the Inner Party -- about two percent...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/explain-organization-party-113667</link>
        <description><![CDATA[At the top is Big Brother.
Next is the Inner Party -- about two percent of the whole population of Oceania.  They are the brain of the state.  This level has people of every race in it but it's pretty hard for anyone to move up into it from lower level.
The Outer Party must make up about thirteen percent of the population.  It is the "hands" of the state.  Some members of this level can make it up into the Inner Party.
No one who isn't...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:03:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the organization of the Party]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the organization of the Party]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:45:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I see two possible answers:
All governments have "tried to impose a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/how-current-government-different-than-any-previous-113583</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I see two possible answers:
All governments have "tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."  So they've always wanted to be able to control what people think.
But this was never possible because you had to have some amount of truth (like in science).  Otherwise, you'd lose wars.  But now they've made war continuous and unloseable so there's no need for truth.  So this government is different because it can lie all...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:28:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is the current government different than any previous government?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is the current government different than any previous government? What invention enables it to be like this?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:43:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How has Julia's sash changed, in Winston's mind?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/how-has-julias-sash-changed-winstons-mind-112893</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How has Julia's sash changed, in Winston's mind?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:09:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Goldstein's influence never declines and the government never captures...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/why-does-goldsteins-influence-never-seem-decline-112677</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Goldstein's influence never declines and the government never captures him because his existence is vital if the government is to survive.  In fact, it is not clear that Goldstein really exists.  He may, in fact, have been made up by the government.
So why does the government need him?  One of the main ways the government keeps society together is by having something for them all to hate.  This is Goldstein's function and it is one reason...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:46:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Goldstein's influence never seem to decline? Why doesn't the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Goldstein's influence never seem to decline? Why doesn't the government ever capture him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:43:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nothing much happens to Winstonn in 3.1; he believes that he is in the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/book-three-chaper-one-winston-jail-how-he-treated-111059</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Nothing much happens to Winstonn in 3.1; he believes that he is in the Ministry of Love, and the telescreen keeps close watch over him while he in his holding cell. He notes the difference in demeanor and treatment between common criminals and the people who have committed crimes against the Party, he sees his neighbor Parsons, who was accused by his daughter of committing thoughtcrime, he learns that O'Brien is not a member of the Brotherhood...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:07:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The name of the song is Oranges and Lemons and the last verse of the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-last-line-st-clements-church-song-445</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The name of the song is Oranges and Lemons and the last verse of the song is "And here comes a chopper to chop off your head". This songs serves as a reminder that the society had completely eradicated shared culture from the people and foreshadowing the point of time where the characters in the book are found isolated from the world, the agony of the whole matter troubling their lives.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:58:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Orwell includes organizations and figures such as The Thought Police and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-collective-purpose-novel-thought-police-big-111297</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Orwell includes organizations and figures such as The Thought Police and Big Brother in 1984 to illustrate the total control of the novel's totalitarian government.  These elements, like the ministries, remove any type of free thinking and freedom from the people.  His use of words such as "police" and "big" show the authority that the organization has and the all-encompassing power of the government.
Unfortunately, Orwell's interpretation...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:24:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the collective purpose in the novel of "The Thought Police" and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-collective-purpose-novel-thought-police-big-111297</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the collective purpose in the novel of "The Thought Police" and "Big Brother" in 1984?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:42:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Book Three, Chapter One of 1984, Winston is in jail.  How is he...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/book-three-chaper-one-winston-jail-how-he-treated-111059</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Book Three, Chapter One of 1984, Winston is in jail.  How is he treated there and why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:55:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Man's relationship to the State has been a point of discussion ever...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/group/discuss/what-more-important-rights-an-individual-saft-64291#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Man's relationship to the State has been a point of discussion ever since the Enlightenment, when such thoughts were able to be explored for the first time in human history.  The philosophers of this time (Locke, Montesqie) and even into our own time (Rand) argue that individuals have rights, and that it is the function of government to safeguard them.
Possessing rights implies that one may do as one wishes, as long as ones' actions do not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:55:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Technically, Winston does not recall the deaths of his mother and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-does-winston-remember-about-why-his-mother-110049</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Technically, Winston does not recall the deaths of his mother and sister; instead, he recalls the last time he sees them alive.
At the beginning of Chapter 7, Winston and Julia awake in the room above Mr. Charrington's shop.  Winston is crying over a dream he had about his mother; he has believed for some time that he murdered her.  He recalls now the times spent with his mother and sister hiding in underground shelters, often with little or...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:08:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the attitudes of Winston Smith and Julia towards...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/compare-contrast-attitudes-winston-smith-julia-110297</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the attitudes of Winston Smith and Julia towards the party]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:29:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Winston remember about why his mother and sister died? (Or...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-does-winston-remember-about-why-his-mother-110049</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does Winston remember about why his mother and sister died? (Or about the last time he sees them.)
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Society consists of individuals. Safety of the society cannot be...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/group/discuss/what-more-important-rights-an-individual-saft-64291#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Society consists of individuals. Safety of the society cannot be achieved if individuals in the society are not safe. Society exists to serve the individual. And society gives to individuals more than what it takes away from them. If it was not so, there would be no need for the society. Then every individual will be on his own acting in his own self interest, unmindful of what happens to others. But the fact is that in this way the position...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:56:09 PST</pubDate>
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