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.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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.
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