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Winston and Julia are betrayed by O'Brien, Mr. Charrington, and the thought-police. They are betrayed because they all allow Winston and Julia to rent a room in Charrington's shop where they carry...
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The Parsons live in Victory Towers and they are Winston's neighbors. The Parsons represent the typical family in the Party, they are the working class, proletariats. Tom Parsons has a wife and two...
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In this book, Thoughtcrime is just what it sounds like. It is the crime of having incorrect thoughts. In the case of this society, it means having basically any thoughts that are not approved....
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The Party rewrites the past because "if you control the past, you control the present." In his novel "1984,) George Orwell demonstrates people can be controlled through cultural conditioning....
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Choosing the most important events of 1984 clearly involves the interpretation the reader; however, in selecting these the reader can look for events that have significant consequences. From this...
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Physically, Winston is aghast when he sees himself in the mirror for the first time since being imprisoned. He has lost his hair and an immense amount of weight, and his skin has a grey pallor...
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You can find the answer to the question in the first few sentences of Chapter 9. What Julia has in a sling is her right arm. This is before she and Winston have started her affair. Winston thinks...
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I suspect that he thinks of the "place where there is no darkness," a place of peace, tranquility, and love. Of course, the real place where there is no darkness is in the Ministry of...
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One of Winston's biggest fears (weaknesses) is the fear of being without, i.e., the fear of deprivation which stems from his youth. Another of Winston's fears is rats. When Winston is being...
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Well, by itself, it isn't much of a symbol. By itself, all it symbolizes (or, more simply, represents) is how traces of the past before the Party came into power hang around: in bits and pieces...
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This is an example of Newspeak, a language created by the party that reduces English to as few words as possible to eliminate the beauty of it, making it Utilitarian, but more than that to...
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Winston is unhappy and thinks he sees that in other's faces, too.Winston meets Julia who also wants change.Winston and Julia have an affair although they know they will be caught eventually.Winston...
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Winston has no choice but to participate after he's arrested. He is brainwashed and tortured to the point that he becomes a shell of a man. All of his individuality is taken away from him, and he...
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His fascination with the past is "bad" for two reasons. First, it implies that he wishes things were still like they used to be before the totalitarian regime came to power. That is not what the...
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Orwell was commissioned to write an account of poverty among the working classes in the depressed areas of Northern England. He observed coal miners and other poor people with difficult situations...
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His focus changes with each stage of his re-education and acceptance back into the Party.In the first phase of his treatment, “learning,” Winston loves Julia. He then moves to the second stage,...
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The central conflict at the end of the story is Winston's love for Julia. Even when the brain washing begins to take hold over Winston's mind, he remembers Julia and his love for her. This love...
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I will not tell you the tone, but rather how to figure it out for yourself. To determine the tone, first look at Orwell's word choice, or diction. Notice if any words or phrases are repeated, or...
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I think all of these symbols that you mention do represent the past. However, I can think of a few more. First, I think the songs that are sung definitely represent the past. Of course, one of...
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I think that Big Brother is the symbol of how repressive the society is and how much people's freedom is taken away from them. Because of this, he affects Winston by making him rebellious....
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The dream Winston has in Chapter 3 foreshadows the consequences for Winston of life in a totalitarian state. He has known love as revealed on his mother's face. The dream of this love begins his...
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Winston and Julia are betrayed by Mr Charrington who owns the second hand shop in which they hold their secret lover's meetings. He rents them a room upstairs. They are misled into believing that...
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Your question's been answered previously. See link below:
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If you read all the answers to the question linked below, you'll have the answer to your question. Don't forget to check out the literature guide as well.
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In 1984, it is forbidden to love anyone but the Party. Family relationships, including those between husband and wife, ought to be secondary to personal allegiance to Big Brother. It is highly...
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This idea refers to the Junior Spies, an organization for children tasked with reporting any cases of disobedience or disloyalty from Party members. The Junior Spies are represented here by the...
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To answer this question, try separating the task into steps. First, find quotes on the three topics. An example of a quote from 1984 about control is the following: He was already dead, he...
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Winston Smith is meant to be a character that readers can see themselves in. He initially criticizes the authoritarian world he lives in, reflecting on the implications of his job rewriting history...
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Winston is convinced that the Proles, who form the majority of the population, could easily overthrow the government if they wanted to; they are probably the only force big enough to confront the...
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I think it's important to consider our own social context in order to grasp how this could happen. Regardless of political affiliation, you often hear people claiming that the media is perpetuating...
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In Oceania, the totalitarian regime controls every aspect of society, and Big Brother requires complete observance from all Party members. The threatening, intimidating nature of the Party is a...
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Winston thinks about people disappearing without a trace and ruminates that Perhaps thirty people personally known to Winston, not counting his parents, had disappeared at one time or another....
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The instructor calls for particular ages to line up in front of their monitors and then begins barking instructions at them. The young and muscular instructor counts out their repetitions in a...
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For the majority of the story, Oceania is at war with Eastasia and is allied with Eurasia. Oceania is engaged in an ongoing war to use up the country's natural resources and maintain a hysterical...
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The plot is the action in a novel that unfolds step by step. The theme is the message or meaning the author is trying to convey. Winston Smith is central to both the plot and the theme of the...
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The structure of 1984 is quite deliberate, setting the stage for the tone and storyline of this dystopian novel by George Orwell. 1984 is written in three parts, each section showing the path that...
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There are so many worthy choices for this response. Here are some of my own top contenders: The moment when Winston and Julia are confronted. Although as you're reading through the sections where...
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In 1984 the world is ruled by three giant superstates: Oceania (where Winston lives), Eurasia, and Eastasia. They are in near-constant conflict with each other, driven on by relentless propaganda...
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In chapter 4 of part 2, Winston waits for Julia in the rented apartment above Mr. Charrington's shop and overhears a huge prole woman singing in the courtyard as she pegs diapers on a clothesline....
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In the first chapter of Emmanuel Goldstein's book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, Winston Smith reads that the world has been divided into three classes since the beginning of...
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In Winston's dream of his sinking mother, she and his baby sister are in the saloon, or great room, of a sinking ship. They are sinking, but there is still air in their ship, and they are looking...
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Winston views his affair with Julia as a political act because every act in 1984 is political. Totalitarianism means that the influence of the Party in every area of life is so pervasive that every...
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1984 is a unified, tightly constructed novel, in which there are no superfluous scenes or characters. It would be accurate, then, to say that the entire plot and all the major characters are used...
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The citizens of Oceania are forbidden contact with foreigners on pain of death. This is because the state is worried that, if they allow their citizens to establish contact with foreigners, then...
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O’Brien’s psychological attacks on Winston Smith begin when he manipulates Winston into believing that he is a member of the Brotherhood rather than a committed member of the Inner Party. Luring...
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The principal motifs that appear in Part 1, Chapters 4 and 5 of Nineteen Eighty-Four are: 1. The erasure of history. Winston has to rewrite official documents, newspaper articles and Big Brother's...
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The obvious answer to this is found in Winston's own story. He is imprisoned, tortured and "re-educated" so that his heretical thinking against the Party is wiped out. O'Brien redefines, or more...
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There are numerous places in chapters 6 through 8 where logical contradictions are exposed. In this section of the novel, Winston Smith is questioning many of the fundamental premises by which...
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Before Winston Smith met Julia, he was a completely miserable, depressed man, who was a secret political dissident and would only express his negative feelings towards Big Brother and the Party in...
