1984 questions book one chapters 5-8

Blake Fletcher

1984

Chapters 5-7

1.     1.The government seems to always have a shortage of something so right now there is a shortage of Razor Blades.

2.   2.  The discussion between Winston and Syme is significant because it shows the two sides it shows Winston who clearly has a problem with the Party and it also shows Syme who is very devoted to the Party. It also shows that the Party is really trying to kill the language that could possibly be associated with rebellion.

3.     3.Winston believes that Syme is to smart and to care free about what he talks about. He says things that the Party might not like.

4.     4.He brags about his children for turning a man they didn’t even know into the police for being a spy because they had never seen the kind of shoes he was wearing before.

5.    5. The telescreen announcement shows how the Party can say that they raised the ration of chocolate and they actually lowered it but nobody knows the difference besides Winston.

6.     6.Winston feels like he is the only person who actually has a memory. He knows that he will probably be vaporized along with syme because syme is to smart and because he questions the Party.

7.     7.He predicts the Duck man will not be vaporized because he is a strong supporter of the Party. He also predicts his sweaty neighbor Parsons will not be vaporized because he too is a very strong supporter of the Party. He predicts he and his friend Syme will be vaporized.

8.     8.The only purpose of marriage was to have children and to raise them for the Party.

9.     9.Winston sees sex as a good thing that is why he stayed with his wife for as long as he did.

1010. Winston believes that the Proles hold the power to rebel if they wanted to. They need to come together because the have the mass numbers necessary.

11. 11.The proles are not really controlled they are free I suppose but if they need to get rid of someone the thought police just cause drama until someone kills the person.

12. 12.The Party Teaches that The Capitalists held all the power and made people starve. Also that they had tons of slaves and  that London was a dark dirty place that was full of crime and starvation.

13.13. He doubts all of it because there is no way to prove or disprove it.

14. 14They where pardoned after being taken away. When usually people dissapear after being found guilty. Another song played in the café and the men began to cry.

15. 15.This story meant a lot to Winston because it finally gave him proof that the Party lies. He had evidence.

16.16. Winston’s un-answered question is what if he is wrong. What if all of this is in his head.

Chapter 8

1.     1.Winston goes off on his own because he doesn’t want to go to a event at the community center because he says it makes him sick. He is missing dull games and other things.

2.     2.The life of a pole is free but dangerous there are bombs being dropped in London many of them drink a lot and they argue over stupid things like the lottery.

3.    3. He is starting to lose faith in learning about the past because the man couldn’t answer that simple question.

4.     4.He discovers a special piece of glass and a nice room upstairs he buys the piece of glass because it is old and unlike any glass he had ever seen.

5.     5.Mr. Charrington seems really nice and kind of depressed. His wife died and he is all alone trying to sell things that no one wants to buy.

6.     6.He thinks that she is following him. He thinks about killing her but decides against it.

7.      7.Winstons body betrays him because he has the sist on his ankle which makes it hard for him to walk.

8.     8.He thinks about church bells because he has never heard one before.

1984 questions book one chapters 1-4

Blake Fletcher

1984 Questions

Book One Chapters 1-2

1. It bothers him being watched constantly. I also think that he is upset with his government.

2. He lives in a society where everything done is controlled by the government. He isn’t even allowed to write in a diary. He is constantly watched by “Big Brother”

3. War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.

4. Ministry of Truth, news, entertainment, and education. Ministry of Peace fine arts. Ministry of Love law and order. Ministry of Plenty economic affairs.

5. His writing.

6. The two minute hate is a way to keep people from rebelling it’s a two minute period where they are taught to hate a person who tried to rebel.

7. His hatred turned on the government and the police. And he makes eye contact with O’Brien.

8. O’Brien and Winston share a moment of eye contact in which Winston believes that O’Brien feels the same way he does. He believes the eye contact was a message.

9. They lost complete control and started filling up with rage and screaming and one women gets so angry she throws a book.

10. Thought crime is thinking things that you aren’t supposed to. Like revolutionary thoughts.

11. Thought police are people that can read peoples minds to see if they are having any bad thoughts.

12. The Parsons are Winston’s neighbors.

13. Their children pretend to be Thought police and they call Winston a traitor. For his thoughts. They also have fake guns.

14. Winston has a dream that O’Brien tells him that they will meet where the sun always shines. It could be before or after he actually meets O’Brien.

15. It is a war announcement that the chocolate will be rationed further than it already is being rationed and they have triumphed over south India and that the end of the war is closer.

Chapters 3-4

1.    1. He dreams about his mother and his sister slowly drowning to save him. He feels horrible about it.

2.  2.  He dreams that he is walking on a nice turf with the sun glowing down on it. He had this dream a lot and he wasn’t sure if he had actually seen the place.

3.    3. He doesn’t remember much about past wars he remembers certain bombs but he is fuzzy on the details.

4.  4.   If people can’t remember an event happening then the event really never happened. If there was a glimmer of hope that the party doesn’t like and they can make it so no one remembers it. Then they don’t have to worry about it because its like it never happened.

5.  5.   He knows that not all the things they say are true. He knows they didn’t create airplanes because he remembers Airplanes as a child and he also knows that there is no way to prove that they are lying.

6.     6.Winstons job is pretty much to go back and alter any bit of news that could make the Big Brother look wrong in any way. So he would change quotes to make him right and change figures to make them more appealing.

7.  7.   The past is controlled by people like Winston. He changes all these articles so that people have no evidence that what they believe and what is actually true looks like a lie.

8.   8.  The Proletariat’s literature, music, and entertainment is lower class. They also have porn made for them that the party members are not allowed to look at.

9.   9.  Working is Winston’s favorite part of the day because he could just lose himself in a re-write. I don’t think that his work takes a lot of creativity but he can use more creativity here than he can in his own free time.

1010 Comrade Ogilvy is pretty much the perfect citizen in the Party member’s eyes. He is a good example for other people to follow therefore the party will like him in this article even though he is not a real person.

Act 5

HAMLET ACT 5: Questions

1) What do you feel is the point of the gravedigger’s riddles and song? How does it fit into the play?

I think that the riddles supply comic relief. Also it could be hinting that the gravedigger knows that it is hamlet he is talking to. The song could be forboding to hamlets death or his love for Ophelia. It also could be to show comic relief because it is a sad song and he is singing it in a happy way.

2) In what ways do Hamlet’s reactions to the skulls in the graveyard seem to suggest a change in his outlook? Compare Hamlet’s attitude towards Yoric to Hamlet’s attitude to Ophelia or even his father? How is it different? How is it similar?

He seems much more mature and understanding that everyone is the same after they die. Also he understands that everyone dies at some point in time. He shows remorse about yoric and he seems to be heartbroken about ophelia’s death and his fathers death.

3) How old is Hamlet? How do you know this?

30 the gravedigger became a grave digger since the day hamlet was born.

4) What does the violent argument between Hamlet and Laertes add to the play?

Hamlet says that he is the Dane. They are both fighting over Ophelia whome they both love. It shows how crazy Laertes is. They wrestle in the grave and that could be a forshadow of their deaths.

5) What developments in Hamlet’s character are presented through the story of what happened on the boat? (V.ii 1-62). How has Hamlet changed?

He is willing to kill his childhood friends without letting them pray to go to heaven. He starts taking action. He realizes he is in a position of power.

6) How do Hamlet’s motives in killing Claudius seem to have shifted according to his speech beginning “Does it not, think thee…” (V.ii.63)

He seems more upset about Claudius jumping him in the right to be king. He actually shows that he wants to be king for the first time.

7) What concerns of the play are reinforced in the Osric episode? (V.ii.80-170)

Reinforces the idea of prostitution. He is sucking up to a position of power.

8) Why does Hamlet ‘defy augury’? (V.ii.192)

He knows it is a trap and if he doesn’t go now it will just happen later.

9) What does Laertes say is his motive in still resenting Hamlet? How has already lost this? How does this contribute to the presentation of revenge in the play? (V.ii216-223)

He wants his honor protected. His family honor needs to be spoken for. He accepts Hamlets apology but he still needs to protect his honor.

10) How might the dying lines of Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes be viewed as typical of the way their characters have been presented throughout the play?

She could have known that the drink was poisoned and she was just protecting hamlet whom she loves.

 Claudius: He asks for help from people who he has power over who don’t really care about him.

Laertes: He forgives Hamlet and asks for forgiveness from hamlet.

11) Who “wins” in Hamlet? How and why do you think this?

Fortinbras. He gets revenge for his father and gains a kingdom. He is the final speaker of the play. He ends up with complete power. And he never seems to go crazy like everyone else in the play.

Hamlet Scene 2

Act II Study Questions

ACT II

1)   What is does Polonius tell Reynaldo in the opening of Act II? How does he plan to trap his son?

He wants him to go start rumors about his son to see if they are true.

2) What does this say about Polonius?

He is very concerned with his own image and he is also nosy and a sneaky man.

3) What particularly in Act II scene 1 has disturbed Ophelia?

Hamlet grabs hold of her and shakes her and acts crazy. So she thinks she has caused his craziness.

4) Why have Rosencrantez and Guildenstern been sent to Denmark?

They are to try to find out what is wrong with hamlet for the king and queen.

5) What does Hamlet ask the players to recite? How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?

He asks them to recite a story about a man getting revenge for the killing of his father.

Identify the following speaker of the following lines and discuss to whom the lines are being delivered, and what do the lines mean?

6) “No, my lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his letter, and denied his access to me”

Ophelia, talking about hamlets insanity.

7) “More matter less art”

the queen says this to Polonius when he is bullshitting her.

8) “That I, the son of a dear father murdered,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell/ Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,

Hamlet during his soliloquy. He is trying to figure out what to do he doesn’t know if the ghost is his father or a demon.

9) “Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth/ And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,/ with windlasses and with assays of bias,/ By directions find directions out.”

Polonius to Reynaldo

10) “For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion-Have you a daughter?”

Hamlet says this to Polonius. He is putting himself down I think. To show how stupid it was for Polonius to command Ophelia to stop seeing him

11) List three metaphors (1 direct, 1 implied, 1 extended) from the play.

Direct: Hamlet breeds maggots in a dead dog

Implied: Lies are poison.

Extended: Denmark is a jail.

12) What proof does Polonius have that he believe indicates Hamlet’s love for Ophelia?

A letter “Hamlet sent” to Ophelia.

13) Explain the quote, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” How does this relate to Hamlet.

Nothing is good or bad because certain people see things differently so something bad for one person may be good for another. Depending on how they take it.

14) What is a fishmonger?

A fishmonger is a Pimp.

15) Who was Jephthah?

A man who killed his daughter for political favors.

Hamlet Act 3 and 4

Act 1 scenes 3-4

1)   What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?

He thinks that Hamlet is a prince and he will probably just use Ophelia. He has no choice in who he will marry so she shouldn’t get her hopes up.

2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?

The worm ruins the flower before it blooms. So in other words hamlet could ruin Ophelia before she is married or an adult. She could be a ruined women.

3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?

"But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own rede." (47-51) 

She is frustrated with her brothers advice because she thinks he is a hypocrite.

4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.

Be true to yourself

Don’t be to friendly to people.

Stay true to your friends don’t bother with wasting your time with other people.

Be a good listener but don’t talk to to many people.

Buy clothes for their quality not for how flashy they are.

5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?

He compares fake coins to Hamlet’s “Fake Love”. He doesn’t want her to be sweet talked into bed by Hamlet’s nice words.

6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.

“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”

He is saying that lust will make you say anything and do anything to get what you want even if it is unjust or unbelievable.

7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?

She tells him she is no longer aloud to see hamlet or respond to any of his messages or receive any of his letters.

8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?

Hamlet does not approve of how Claudius is running the country he thinks that he is making the country look like a drunken foul country.

9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?

The ghost could be evil or it could not even be his father. It may try to convince him to do terrible things so Horatio thinks it best just not to follow it.

10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?

He tells the guards to leave him alone to talk to the ghosts because even if the ghost is evil his life isn’t worth living anyways.

Act 1 Scene 2

HAMLET ACT 1 Scene 2

1. What is odd about Hamlet’s appearance in the opening of scene two?

He is dressed in all black. He is depressed.

2. Explain (give at least two reasons) why Claudius needs to justify his marriage in the opening of scene two.

1.   Because the country can not appear weak for fear of war.

2.   Because he married his brothers woman

3.   Laertes asks the King for leave to do what, specifically?

He wants to go back to school in france.

4.   Explain Hamlet’s insult when he says, “A little more than kin and less than kind.”

He is saying his Uncle/Father is closer related to him because he is not just blood but also related through marriage.

5. Explain Hamlet’s use of pun in the line, “Not so my lord, I am too much in the sun.”

The use of the word sun could be thought of as like son… He doesn’t like being called the son of king Claudius….

5.   In Hamlet’s first soliloquy it is obvious that what troubles him most is?

He is troubled not just that his mother married his uncle but that she did it so fast.

7. What does Hamlet mean by the following lines

“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems’.

‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,

Nor customary suits of solemn black,

Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath,

No, nore the fruitful river in the eye,

Nor the dejected havior of the visage,

Together will all forms, moods, shapes of grief,

That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,

For they are actions that a man might play;

But I have that within which passes show,

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

He is saying that he does not just sad but that the outer look of him is on the inside is well. He is really depressed and not just pretending.

8. What does Hamlet say about the baked meats and the funeral and the wedding.

That it was kept from the funeral and used at the funeral

9. What news does Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo bring to Hamlet.

His dead father is back as a ghost in full armor.

Act 1 Scene 1

Questions for ACT 1 SCENE 1

1) How is interest created in the opening scene?

They are not sure what the return of the late king means? It could be a sign that they are in trouble. Foreboding to a war.

2) What information are we given to help us understand the situation?

The ghost of king hamlet is back.

Leaders come back in a time of great danger.

3) What happens at the end of the scene to create suspense and keep up the reader’s interest?

The Ghost is temped to speak but then vanishes because the guards try to stab him to get him to speak?

The guards also want to bring the info to hamlet. The dead kings son.

4) What is the mood of the scene?

The mood of the scene is pretty gloomy and mystifying.

5) Why are the sentries apprehensive (there are two reasons)?

What is a Sentrie?

6) What reasons are suggested by Horatio for the appearance of the late King’s ghost?

The kingdom is in danger