2) A symbol is a reoccurring symbol throughout the book. Paperweight, which show’s Julia’s and Winston’s relationship, and how they live in their own little world. Julia’s life is the pink coral. The paperweight gets smashed when their relationship ends. The slogans, which reinforce the power of big brother. The prole woman singing. It showed that she didn’t really care about what anybody thought. Winston saw it as some sort of rebellion against Big Brother. Songs are idea that there is emotion in them even though the world is dark. It makes Wintson think that there is hope in the future because of the beauty.
5) Ministries: Ministry of truth, which is news, entertainment, education, and fine arts and it’s ironic because the news isn’t truthful. Ministry of love, which is law and order and it’s ironic because when you love somebody there’s no law and order it just happens. Ministry of peace, which is war and it’s ironic because when people are at war it’s never peaceful; there are sufferings, deaths, and mass destruction. Ministry of plenty, which is economic affairs and it’s ironic because the government has money, but they won’t give it to the people so they are hungry, and they don’t get paid well.
Slogans: War is peace is ironic because war is not actually peaceful, perhaps where war isn’t taking place it is, but not where the actual battle is happening.
Freedom is Slavery is ironic because when you are free you’re supposed to do whatever you want to, but instead you can’t because you are really enslaved.
Ignorance is Strength is ironic because generally the more people know, the more powerful they can become.
Winston’s and Julia’s paradise room is ironic because it’s supposed to be a place with no telescreens and a place where they can be themselves and relax, but then that’s the place where they got caught and there was a telescreen in there.
“The place where there is no darkness” at first Winston thought it would be a place of rebellion, but it turns out that it’s a place where people get tortured to actually believe in and love big brother.
O’Brian is ironic because Winston made him out to be his best friend and someone he can trust and talk to and was against big brother, but then he turns out to be a part of big brother and tortures Winston to the point where he loves big brother.
9) Big Brother brainwashes all the citizens through the telescreen. On every telescreen, there’s a big picture of him, faded into the foreground while television maybe play in the background. It seems as though every second of everyday, he is watching everyone make their every move.
Everyday there’s two minutes of hate, where all the paroles are forced to sit and watch a video of horrible things/events. Big Brother has the power to change the outcome of the past, present, and possibly the future. He brainwashes everyone into thinking he has absolute power. He is the new God of this so-called new world.
In his utopia called Oceania, all the people act as though they’re zombies, merely because they are forced to live the life they don’t want, but just as Big Brother wants them to live it.
Everyday, he’s on the telescreen giving a speech about his power and control. There’s no way to escape Big Brother; he’s in everyone’s mind and you have to live the life you have, until either you die of sickness, old age, or if you are to be enclosed in Room 101.
Constant war: they bomb their own country, which also connects to living in fear.
They make everyone live in fear.
Idea of newspeak eliminating the idea of communicating
Isolation of people so they can’t see each other
Telescreens and microphones everywhere no one can speak their own thoughts or have time to themselves
Hate week focus of hate on one enemy.
Re-writing of the past
Idea of Ingsoc especially doublethink.
Everyone eventually ends up in the Ministry of Love.
12) Compare: They both want to rebel against big brother and join the brotherhood; they both love each other and end up betraying each other.
Contrast: Winston is old and she is young, he is more aware of what’s going on with big brother and their conspiracies and society, and Julia doesn’t really care, Winston lives more in the past, and Julia lives more in the present. Winston grows up with memories with a world without big brother and believes the world can change and his act of rebellion is to change the world, Julia grew up under big brother and doesn’t know anything other then Big Brothers, he act of rebellion is more selfish.
Proles-lower class can’t comprehend what’s going on in world
Inner party
Outer party- big brother is concerned with this party.
Newspeak words: Doubleplusungood, doubleplusgood, doublethink, and ingsoc
List 5 examples of foreshadow: “We will meet in a place where there is no darkness.” Foreshadows room 101 and Winston being tortured. The junkshop Charrington, a nice old man, offers the room upstairs to Winston and says it’s safe, but it really isn’t, and Winston gets caught by the hidden telescreen. O’Brian foreshadows himself and that he is really part of the . Julia foreshadows that her and Winston will probably be in a relationship. Gold Stein. Chestnut Tree Café foreshadows Winston going back there after he is tortured. Rats foreshadow what’s going to happen in room 101.
Plot: Exposition: Whole first section that sets up big brother and the world they live in. We meet Winston and his friends such as O’Brian, Syme, the Parsons, and Julia. We learn that Winston works at a place where he rewrites articles with newspeak words; pretty much rewrites the past.
Inciting Event: Julia writes on a note, “I love you”
Rising Action: Julia and Winston start a relationship. We learn about Winston’s and his mother’s relationship. Winston rents the junkshop. O’Brian convinces Winston and Julia to join the brother hood. Winston reads Goldstein’s book. Winston admires the prole woman’s singing and thinks she is beautiful, but Julia thinks she is ugly. Julia gets good foods, makeup, and wine from the black market.
Climax: When they find the telescreen
Falling action: O’Brian and Charrington are part of the thought police. Winston and Julia are separated. Winston is tortured and taken to room 101 where we learn his biggest fear, which are rats. Winston and Julia betrayed each other and after they got out of being tortured and decided they didn’t love each other anymore.
Resolution: Winston loves big brother.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
final review questions
2) A symbol is a reoccurring symbol throughout the book. Paperweight, which show’s Julia’s and Winston’s relationship, and how they live in their own little world. Julia’s life is the pink coral. The paperweight gets smashed when their relationship ends. The slogans, which reinforce the power of big brother. The prole woman singing. It showed that she didn’t really care about what anybody thought. Winston saw it as some sort of rebellion against Big Brother. Songs are idea that there is emotion in them even though the world is dark. It makes Wintson think that there is hope in the future because of the beauty.
5) Ministries: Ministry of truth, which is news, entertainment, education, and fine arts and it’s ironic because the news isn’t truthful. Ministry of love, which is law and order and it’s ironic because when you love somebody there’s no law and order it just happens. Ministry of peace, which is war and it’s ironic because when people are at war it’s never peaceful; there are sufferings, deaths, and mass destruction. Ministry of plenty, which is economic affairs and it’s ironic because the government has money, but they won’t give it to the people so they are hungry, and they don’t get paid well.
Slogans: War is peace is ironic because war is not actually peaceful, perhaps where war isn’t taking place it is, but not where the actual battle is happening.
Freedom is Slavery is ironic because when you are free you’re supposed to do whatever you want to, but instead you can’t because you are really enslaved.
Ignorance is Strength is ironic because generally the more people know, the more powerful they can become.
Winston’s and Julia’s paradise room is ironic because it’s supposed to be a place with no telescreens and a place where they can be themselves and relax, but then that’s the place where they got caught and there was a telescreen in there.
“The place where there is no darkness” at first Winston thought it would be a place of rebellion, but it turns out that it’s a place where people get tortured to actually believe in and love big brother.
O’Brian is ironic because Winston made him out to be his best friend and someone he can trust and talk to and was against big brother, but then he turns out to be a part of big brother and tortures Winston to the point where he loves big brother.
9) Big Brother brainwashes all the citizens through the telescreen. On every telescreen, there’s a big picture of him, faded into the foreground while television maybe play in the background. It seems as though every second of everyday, he is watching everyone make their every move.
Everyday there’s two minutes of hate, where all the paroles are forced to sit and watch a video of horrible things/events. Big Brother has the power to change the outcome of the past, present, and possibly the future. He brainwashes everyone into thinking he has absolute power. He is the new God of this so-called new world.
In his utopia called Oceania, all the people act as though they’re zombies, merely because they are forced to live the life they don’t want, but just as Big Brother wants them to live it.
Everyday, he’s on the telescreen giving a speech about his power and control. There’s no way to escape Big Brother; he’s in everyone’s mind and you have to live the life you have, until either you die of sickness, old age, or if you are to be enclosed in Room 101.
Constant war: they bomb their own country, which also connects to living in fear.
They make everyone live in fear.
Idea of newspeak eliminating the idea of communicating
Isolation of people so they can’t see each other
Telescreens and microphones everywhere no one can speak their own thoughts or have time to themselves
Hate week focus of hate on one enemy.
Re-writing of the past
Idea of Ingsoc especially doublethink.
Everyone eventually ends up in the Ministry of Love.
12) Compare: They both want to rebel against big brother and join the brotherhood; they both love each other and end up betraying each other.
Contrast: Winston is old and she is young, he is more aware of what’s going on with big brother and their conspiracies and society, and Julia doesn’t really care, Winston lives more in the past, and Julia lives more in the present. Winston grows up with memories with a world without big brother and believes the world can change and his act of rebellion is to change the world, Julia grew up under big brother and doesn’t know anything other then Big Brothers, he act of rebellion is more selfish.
Proles-lower class can’t comprehend what’s going on in world
Inner party
Outer party- big brother is concerned with this party.
5) Ministries: Ministry of truth, which is news, entertainment, education, and fine arts and it’s ironic because the news isn’t truthful. Ministry of love, which is law and order and it’s ironic because when you love somebody there’s no law and order it just happens. Ministry of peace, which is war and it’s ironic because when people are at war it’s never peaceful; there are sufferings, deaths, and mass destruction. Ministry of plenty, which is economic affairs and it’s ironic because the government has money, but they won’t give it to the people so they are hungry, and they don’t get paid well.
Slogans: War is peace is ironic because war is not actually peaceful, perhaps where war isn’t taking place it is, but not where the actual battle is happening.
Freedom is Slavery is ironic because when you are free you’re supposed to do whatever you want to, but instead you can’t because you are really enslaved.
Ignorance is Strength is ironic because generally the more people know, the more powerful they can become.
Winston’s and Julia’s paradise room is ironic because it’s supposed to be a place with no telescreens and a place where they can be themselves and relax, but then that’s the place where they got caught and there was a telescreen in there.
“The place where there is no darkness” at first Winston thought it would be a place of rebellion, but it turns out that it’s a place where people get tortured to actually believe in and love big brother.
O’Brian is ironic because Winston made him out to be his best friend and someone he can trust and talk to and was against big brother, but then he turns out to be a part of big brother and tortures Winston to the point where he loves big brother.
9) Big Brother brainwashes all the citizens through the telescreen. On every telescreen, there’s a big picture of him, faded into the foreground while television maybe play in the background. It seems as though every second of everyday, he is watching everyone make their every move.
Everyday there’s two minutes of hate, where all the paroles are forced to sit and watch a video of horrible things/events. Big Brother has the power to change the outcome of the past, present, and possibly the future. He brainwashes everyone into thinking he has absolute power. He is the new God of this so-called new world.
In his utopia called Oceania, all the people act as though they’re zombies, merely because they are forced to live the life they don’t want, but just as Big Brother wants them to live it.
Everyday, he’s on the telescreen giving a speech about his power and control. There’s no way to escape Big Brother; he’s in everyone’s mind and you have to live the life you have, until either you die of sickness, old age, or if you are to be enclosed in Room 101.
Constant war: they bomb their own country, which also connects to living in fear.
They make everyone live in fear.
Idea of newspeak eliminating the idea of communicating
Isolation of people so they can’t see each other
Telescreens and microphones everywhere no one can speak their own thoughts or have time to themselves
Hate week focus of hate on one enemy.
Re-writing of the past
Idea of Ingsoc especially doublethink.
Everyone eventually ends up in the Ministry of Love.
12) Compare: They both want to rebel against big brother and join the brotherhood; they both love each other and end up betraying each other.
Contrast: Winston is old and she is young, he is more aware of what’s going on with big brother and their conspiracies and society, and Julia doesn’t really care, Winston lives more in the past, and Julia lives more in the present. Winston grows up with memories with a world without big brother and believes the world can change and his act of rebellion is to change the world, Julia grew up under big brother and doesn’t know anything other then Big Brothers, he act of rebellion is more selfish.
Proles-lower class can’t comprehend what’s going on in world
Inner party
Outer party- big brother is concerned with this party.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
1984 Book 2 Chapters 8-9
1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.
The Inner party members get good food, can turn their telescreens off, servants, and get an actual home rather than an apartment. The Outer party members get nasty food, run down apartments, and have the two minutes of hate.
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
He asks them questions to make sure they are willing to be a part of the brotherhood.
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
That it exists and no one knows where Goldstein is. Also that they won’t get any closer to destroying big brother, and in the end you will be killed. They also don’t know how many people are in it.
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
Through a briefcase. One day Winston was supposed to not carry his briefcase, and someone would say, “you dropped your suitcase” and hand one to him.
The Inner party members get good food, can turn their telescreens off, servants, and get an actual home rather than an apartment. The Outer party members get nasty food, run down apartments, and have the two minutes of hate.
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
He asks them questions to make sure they are willing to be a part of the brotherhood.
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
That it exists and no one knows where Goldstein is. Also that they won’t get any closer to destroying big brother, and in the end you will be killed. They also don’t know how many people are in it.
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
Through a briefcase. One day Winston was supposed to not carry his briefcase, and someone would say, “you dropped your suitcase” and hand one to him.
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.
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.
Monday, April 25, 2011
1984- Book 2 Chapter 9
1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984?
To show how the party and brotherhood are different.
2. What three classes of people have always existed?
Upper, Middle, and Lower.
3. In What ways have these three classes changed?
Their names have changed, but their ideas and beliefs are pretty much the same.
4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984?
To get supplies to help with other wars and to keep social hierarchy in place; balance of power.
5. What are the two aims of the Party?
To discover what another human being is thinking, and how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without warning beforehand.
6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned?
One is the total takeover of it’s people, and the other is to try to take over the land that isn’t owned by any of the superpowers.
7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from
associating with foreigners?
So they can’t interact and see how alike each nation is. This allows them to continue being at war.
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?
They are all alike because if one of them was different, they would get taken over by the other two. Their similarities include: they each want to take complete control over their people, they can do well on their own because of their natural resources, and they each have seperation of the classes.
9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace."
Each government realizes that in order for there to be permanent “peace” they must be at a constant state of war. They keep the people working to allow the government to run smoothly, and they tell the people lies so things don’t always seem as bad.
10. What are the aims of the three groups?
Aim of the high- remain where they are. Aim of the middle- to change places with the high. Aim of the lower- to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century?
The middle class now claims that the government is cruel. Before they looked for equality, but now they only look for inequality.
12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century?
They weren’t looking to establish liberty and equality anymore, but instead to have the government be in absolute control.
13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants?
Because they brainwashed people and made them afraid to rebel, so it maintained order and they were able to stay in power with no problems.
14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power?
1- it is conquered from without
2- it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt
3- it allows a strong and discontented Middle Group to come into being.
4- It loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power?
They get everyone to believe in Big Brother, and they ration things amongst everyone at a bare minimum rate.
16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world?
By examination taken at the age of 16.
17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class?
It’s the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. It allows them to erase history.
18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?
So history won’t have a chance of repeating itself and they are in control because they tell the people what really happened in history, and make it whatever they want so long as it actually happened.
To show how the party and brotherhood are different.
2. What three classes of people have always existed?
Upper, Middle, and Lower.
3. In What ways have these three classes changed?
Their names have changed, but their ideas and beliefs are pretty much the same.
4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984?
To get supplies to help with other wars and to keep social hierarchy in place; balance of power.
5. What are the two aims of the Party?
To discover what another human being is thinking, and how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without warning beforehand.
6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned?
One is the total takeover of it’s people, and the other is to try to take over the land that isn’t owned by any of the superpowers.
7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from
associating with foreigners?
So they can’t interact and see how alike each nation is. This allows them to continue being at war.
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?
They are all alike because if one of them was different, they would get taken over by the other two. Their similarities include: they each want to take complete control over their people, they can do well on their own because of their natural resources, and they each have seperation of the classes.
9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace."
Each government realizes that in order for there to be permanent “peace” they must be at a constant state of war. They keep the people working to allow the government to run smoothly, and they tell the people lies so things don’t always seem as bad.
10. What are the aims of the three groups?
Aim of the high- remain where they are. Aim of the middle- to change places with the high. Aim of the lower- to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century?
The middle class now claims that the government is cruel. Before they looked for equality, but now they only look for inequality.
12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century?
They weren’t looking to establish liberty and equality anymore, but instead to have the government be in absolute control.
13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants?
Because they brainwashed people and made them afraid to rebel, so it maintained order and they were able to stay in power with no problems.
14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power?
1- it is conquered from without
2- it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt
3- it allows a strong and discontented Middle Group to come into being.
4- It loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power?
They get everyone to believe in Big Brother, and they ration things amongst everyone at a bare minimum rate.
16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world?
By examination taken at the age of 16.
17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class?
It’s the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. It allows them to erase history.
18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?
So history won’t have a chance of repeating itself and they are in control because they tell the people what really happened in history, and make it whatever they want so long as it actually happened.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
1984 Part two Chapters 2-5
Part 2, Chapter 2
Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
He was glad that everything was happening, but he had no physical desire to be with her because she was too soon and her youth and prettiness had frightened him, and he was too used to living without women.
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
A chocolate bar.
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
She hates them and uses foul language whenever she talks about them.
What familiar sign does Winston find?
The place that Julia had him go to reminded him of the Golden Country that he dreamed about.
What is the significance of the thrush music?
To show that even when something seems nice and peaceful, it could really be corrupt.
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?
Because it hinted at corruption. And he says that if he could have infected them all with leprosy or syphilis he would have.
Chapter 3
How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
They met in the Church tower.
What is Julia’s job?
Novel writing machines in the fiction department.
What is her background?
She had a grandfather who disappeared when she was eight. Captain of the hockey team and gymnastic trophy for two years running. Troop leader of the spies. Secretary in the youth league before joining the junior anti-sex league. She had been chosen to work in pornosec.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
She hated it and spoke of it in crude words, but made no general criticism of it. She only cared about the party where it touched her in her own life.
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?
That Julia only really cares about her sexual part of her life, and that it’s the only way to rebel against big brother.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
It connects people, and since sexual impulses mainly deal with feelings, the party doesn’t really have any control over them.
Chapter 4
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He said that the woman sang very tunefully and it made it so the foul lyrics were peaceful to listen to.
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Folly- Smelling the delicious coffee and perfume, looking pretty while the room is nasty, tasting the real sugar in coffee, Hearing the beautiful singing. They don’t really get to experience all these senses unless they are hidden away. Only in Winston and Julia’s paradise do they get to experience them.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston hates rats and is very scared of them. He closes his eyes because he is scared. Julia isn’t scared. She saw the rats come out of the whole and batted them away from her and Winston and then covered the hole as they left.
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?
It is a connection to the time before the revolution when they rang.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
The paperweight was the room he was in and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
Chapter 5
Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
Syme. He looked at the list of the Chest people, of which Syme was a part of, and his name wasn’t on the list anymore.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized, stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. Posters of Eurasian army men.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
Julia doesn’t really care about the past, she falls asleep every time Winston starts talking about it, Winston is much older than she is, they have different ideas about how a rebellion should go, and Julia lives in the moment.
Connect chapters 2-3 in Book Two to two different themes.
Meaning of freedom: Julia would bring back good food which they would eat, they still got a chance to meet and hang out with each other, the prole woman singing, Julia painting her face, and the idea of the glass paper weight.
The responsibility of the individual in the Society: Winston, for one, destroys files and alters the past, people getting ready for hate week, working overtime, and Syme being there one day, and the next it was as if he never even existed.
Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
He was glad that everything was happening, but he had no physical desire to be with her because she was too soon and her youth and prettiness had frightened him, and he was too used to living without women.
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
A chocolate bar.
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
She hates them and uses foul language whenever she talks about them.
What familiar sign does Winston find?
The place that Julia had him go to reminded him of the Golden Country that he dreamed about.
What is the significance of the thrush music?
To show that even when something seems nice and peaceful, it could really be corrupt.
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?
Because it hinted at corruption. And he says that if he could have infected them all with leprosy or syphilis he would have.
Chapter 3
How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
They met in the Church tower.
What is Julia’s job?
Novel writing machines in the fiction department.
What is her background?
She had a grandfather who disappeared when she was eight. Captain of the hockey team and gymnastic trophy for two years running. Troop leader of the spies. Secretary in the youth league before joining the junior anti-sex league. She had been chosen to work in pornosec.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
She hated it and spoke of it in crude words, but made no general criticism of it. She only cared about the party where it touched her in her own life.
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?
That Julia only really cares about her sexual part of her life, and that it’s the only way to rebel against big brother.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
It connects people, and since sexual impulses mainly deal with feelings, the party doesn’t really have any control over them.
Chapter 4
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He said that the woman sang very tunefully and it made it so the foul lyrics were peaceful to listen to.
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Folly- Smelling the delicious coffee and perfume, looking pretty while the room is nasty, tasting the real sugar in coffee, Hearing the beautiful singing. They don’t really get to experience all these senses unless they are hidden away. Only in Winston and Julia’s paradise do they get to experience them.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston hates rats and is very scared of them. He closes his eyes because he is scared. Julia isn’t scared. She saw the rats come out of the whole and batted them away from her and Winston and then covered the hole as they left.
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?
It is a connection to the time before the revolution when they rang.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
The paperweight was the room he was in and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
Chapter 5
Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
Syme. He looked at the list of the Chest people, of which Syme was a part of, and his name wasn’t on the list anymore.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized, stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. Posters of Eurasian army men.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
Julia doesn’t really care about the past, she falls asleep every time Winston starts talking about it, Winston is much older than she is, they have different ideas about how a rebellion should go, and Julia lives in the moment.
Connect chapters 2-3 in Book Two to two different themes.
Meaning of freedom: Julia would bring back good food which they would eat, they still got a chance to meet and hang out with each other, the prole woman singing, Julia painting her face, and the idea of the glass paper weight.
The responsibility of the individual in the Society: Winston, for one, destroys files and alters the past, people getting ready for hate week, working overtime, and Syme being there one day, and the next it was as if he never even existed.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hamlet questions 4.5-4.7
4.5
1) She is angry and upset that Hamlet killed her father. She talks about those things perhaps because she is now free from Hamlet and her father controlling her and she speaks what is on her mind.
2) That he is leading a rebellion against his government. He plans to throw out the traditions and ancient customs.
3) His kingdom, crown, life, and everything he owns.
4.6
1) Pirates captured him. The pirates were perhaps working for Norway, or were pirates all on their own.
4.7
1) That Hamlet was trying to kill him (Claudius).
2) One reason is because Gertrude and Hamlet love each other and are really close, and Claudius doesn’t want to lose her. The other reason is that the public loves him.
3) Yes.
4) He says that people are going to place bets on who would win the fencing match, and then Hamlet will be so distracted that Laertes will be able to grab the sharpest sword
5) He says that he will put poison on the end of it, that way when he stabs him, he will be poisoned to death.
6) That Ophelia was climbing a tree to hang her wreath of flowers and fell in the stream below and sang until her clothes were too heavy and wet that they drug her to the bottom and she drowned.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Words of the day
Jerry’s belief that there was a real cookie monster is a paradox.
The sovereign Principle made the kids go to school on the weekend.
Sarah’s commission for the party, caused it to be a disaster.
The resolution of the basketball game was the Skagway panthers winning with a small margin.
The malefaction done by Trent was so horrendous he could not be forgiven.
Above, the firmament was turning dark grey, a sign that something bad was about to happen.
The tedious speech about wall sockets just dragged on for hours.
Ian is the most pestilent boy I have ever met.
Sally’s pious actions caused her to be at the church all day.
I like sitting on the beach and watching the waves crash against the huge promontory.
The sovereign Principle made the kids go to school on the weekend.
Sarah’s commission for the party, caused it to be a disaster.
The resolution of the basketball game was the Skagway panthers winning with a small margin.
The malefaction done by Trent was so horrendous he could not be forgiven.
Above, the firmament was turning dark grey, a sign that something bad was about to happen.
The tedious speech about wall sockets just dragged on for hours.
Ian is the most pestilent boy I have ever met.
Sally’s pious actions caused her to be at the church all day.
I like sitting on the beach and watching the waves crash against the huge promontory.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Hamlet 2.2
1.) Claudius sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
2.) He has sent on them to spy on Hamlet
3.) Voltimand and Cornelius bring back news that the king of Norway found out what Fortinbras was doing and told him not to attack Denmark
4.) Norway asks for permission to pass through Denmark on their march to Poland
5.) He’s telling them to listen to him though he rarely listens to himself
6.) Polonius’s plan is for him and Claudius to hid behind an arras when Hamlet is with Ophelia and see if he is really in love with Ophelia
7.) Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger or a pimp because Polonius uses his daughter to get further in life
8.) Polonius says that madness gets the point across while sanity would not as well
9.) To Hamlet Denmark is corrupt
10.) He tells them that he has now realized people are nothing more than dust
11.) The players are traveling now because a younger crew has become more popular in the cities so they are traveling to find work
12.) He lets them know that he knows what’s going on and knows the purpose that the king and queen have sent from them
13.) It is an allusion to Jephthah in the bible who sacrifies his daughter out of selfishness, trying to get a higher ranking
14.) Like Pyrrhus we wants to avenge his fathers death. Hamlet is unlike Pyrrhus because of the way they are going about getting their revenge is different. And Pyrrhus is actually in a war while Hamlet is not yet.
15.) Hamlet asks the players if they can perform the Murder of Gonzago and if he can write a couple lines that could be added to the play
16.) He exclaims this because the actor can cry and feel sorry for a made up character when Hamlet just feels empty inside
17.) His plan is that by adding in these lines to the play it with break his uncle down causing him to confess about old king hamlet
18.) One, Hamlet wants to know whether or not the ghost is the devil and two he needs this evidence so people will believe him
19.) Polonius spies on Ophelia and Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern spy on Hamlet
20.) Hamlet is rude and sad but gets excited for plays. He is clever and some how seems to know everything that is going on.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Hamlet Notes- Act 2.2
Polonius starts questioning Hamlet as a way to spy on him.
Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger which is a metaphor for pimp.
Hamlet says, "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." This relates to the theme of humanity and corruption, because it's pathetic that there are very few who are actually honest. Such as Hamlet and Horatio.
Hamlet says, "if the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog and being a good kissing carrion." He is talking about how the sun can bring about good and bad things, and how Ophelia is like the dead dog, allowing the maggots, or the men who control her such as Hamlet, Polonius, and Laertes, to feed off of her.
Hamlet makes fun of Polonius in lines 195-222.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are of middle class.
Fortune is a prostitute, you can't rely on it.
Rosencrantz says, "but the world's grown honest." This reinforces the idea of lying, because the world isn't a very honest place.
Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger which is a metaphor for pimp.
Hamlet says, "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." This relates to the theme of humanity and corruption, because it's pathetic that there are very few who are actually honest. Such as Hamlet and Horatio.
Hamlet says, "if the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog and being a good kissing carrion." He is talking about how the sun can bring about good and bad things, and how Ophelia is like the dead dog, allowing the maggots, or the men who control her such as Hamlet, Polonius, and Laertes, to feed off of her.
Hamlet makes fun of Polonius in lines 195-222.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are of middle class.
Fortune is a prostitute, you can't rely on it.
Rosencrantz says, "but the world's grown honest." This reinforces the idea of lying, because the world isn't a very honest place.
In lines 245-247 Hamlet talks about how anything that happens is neutral, but it's how you think about it, is what it appears to be. This is important for the book because it makes you think about anything that happens and look at both sides instead of siding with the side that is told.
We learn that Hamlet is having bad dreams about his dad's ghost. The idea of dreaming.
In lines 259-261 Hamlet talks about how heroes wouldn't be who they are if it weren't for the lesser people, such as beggers, who worship, or praise them. More specifically how the shadows of common people make the king.. This could suggest that Hamlet is going to do something to Claudius because he is supposed to "look up to him", but he doesn't, so he is going to bring him down. Without his support, Claudius will fall. Just like a hero would without believers. He wouldn't exist. (in later lines, 268, Hamlet refers to himself as a beggar)
In Hamlet's monolog, He talks about how he has stopped having fun and everything feels dull in his life. There is a metaphor when he points to the canopy and says it sends him bad feelings, but he is referring to when he saw his father and he informed him about his uncle. The theme of Humanity also shows up in his monolog when he says how human are perfect, how they are brilliant thinkers, swift in action, and how thy are able to understand so much, but he doesn't think they even come close. He compares them to dust. Which could mean that men are all dead in spirit and actions, because dust is made up of dead skin.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 1
1) He is sending him to Paris.
2) To spy on Laertes.
3) He is supposed to go around Paris and ask people if they know Laertes, and if they do then make up some forgeries to see if they are true.
4) It shows that he likes to spy on people, and perhaps obsessive over his children.
5) That he is willing to dishonor his own child to find out what he has been up to.
6) She says he was pale, didn’t have his hat on, his jacket was undone, socks down to his ankles, and had a piteous look on his face.
7) He thinks that Hamlet’s grief is coming from him forbidding Ophelia from seeing him.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Act 1 scenes 3-4
1) He says she should be careful and shouldn’t fall for him because even though Hamlet might say he loves her, he has to do what’s best for the country, and that probably isn’t marrying her.
2) That Ophelia is like a flower in spring and Hamlet is like the worm, or the canker galls, and the worm destroys the flower before it blooms. This suggests that Hamlet
3) She says she will take his advice to heart, but she will still do what she wants. And she tells him not to be a hypocrite because she knows what he does in France with all the other girls.
4) 1- Listen to people and let them talk, but don’t say much in return. 2- don’t speak your thoughts, keep them in your head. 3- Be friendly enough, but don’t make yourself cheap. 4- Don’t shake hands (in friendship) with every young man. 5- Beware of entering a quarrel, but if you do enter in one, make others fear you.
5) He is saying that because she believes Hamlet loves her it makes her seem like a baby because she believes him. Also that because of her babyish actions, he looks like a fool.
6) A metaphor is when Polonius talks about the woodcock. He is relating it to Ophelia by saying if she keeps sneaking around with Hamlet she will be caught, because, like the woodcock, she is foolish and sets herself up to get caught easily.
7) He forbids her to see Hamlet.
8) He is talking about how other countries think Denmark is a drunk and foolish place, and that their drunkenness takes away from their achievements, and lessens their reputation. Then he goes on to compare it with how people can’t help that they are born with defects, and how one small defect in a person can bring them down. Also how a little show of evil can damage someone’s reputation.
9) He thinks the ghost could be a demon disguised as his father’s ghost, and that it might try to kill him if they are alone together.
10) He commands them not to repeat anything they saw or heard between him and the ghost.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Hamlet's Vocabulary words
For a while I felt like I was being haunted by a ghost, and then one night when I walked into my room I saw an apparition and I knew it was true.
Johny’s calumnious remark towards the principle almost cost him his job.
The singing canon stated that all who are terrible singers are not allowed to sing.
The countenance on the young boy’s face suggested he was very sad.
Brandy’s discourse about smoking won her state in ddf.
The girl’s basketball game that was imminent was against their rivals, Yakutat.
The young boy put himself in a perilous situation when he climbed the tree and didn’t know how to get down.
While watching the basketball game, I noticed the star player’s portentous attitude, and it was a big turn off.
The prodigal man went into debt quickly.
We sullied the principle’s hopes of us being good students when he found us in the lunchroom that was drenched in water.
Johny’s calumnious remark towards the principle almost cost him his job.
The singing canon stated that all who are terrible singers are not allowed to sing.
The countenance on the young boy’s face suggested he was very sad.
Brandy’s discourse about smoking won her state in ddf.
The girl’s basketball game that was imminent was against their rivals, Yakutat.
The young boy put himself in a perilous situation when he climbed the tree and didn’t know how to get down.
While watching the basketball game, I noticed the star player’s portentous attitude, and it was a big turn off.
The prodigal man went into debt quickly.
We sullied the principle’s hopes of us being good students when he found us in the lunchroom that was drenched in water.
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