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.