Part 1

Question 1

What is the summary of Chapter 1?

Answer 1

• Orwell’s goals are to depict frightening, totalitarian government to control
• protagonist arrives at idea of rebellion/freedom
• Freedom = shocking -> writing diary is unpardonable crime
• How party watches through windows
• “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” evidences omniscience of Party
• Winstons desire to break free - thought-criminal
• propaganda on telescreens
• two min hate - mass rally with fury for rival nations

Question 2

Analysis of Chapter 1

Answer 2

• contradiction between name and function of ministries
• breakdown of independence of individual’s mind

Question 3

What is the summary of Chapter 2?

Answer 3

• important motif of urban decay
• Under guidance of Party, London fallen apart
• Winston’s world - brutal + harsh
• buildings ramshackle and unsafe
• Winston encouters Parsons children - demonstrates family life
• Children converted into spies + trained to be cautious of parents
• Junior Spies
• Mrs Parsons fears children

Question 4

Analysis of Chapter 2

Answer 4

• in contrast to broken elevator in his apartment, technologically advanced telescreens shows Party’s prioritisation of strict control + neglect of citizens’ quality of living
• Mrs Parsons shows fear - foreshadows Winston’s encounter in jail with her husband - turned in by children
• Junior spies inspired by Hitler Youth in Germany - patriotism in kids leading to monitoring parents for deviation from Nazi Orthodoxy

Question 5

Summary of Chapter 3

Answer 5

• Winston experiences guilt of his treatment of his mum before she disappeared
• Dreaming in the countryside, he calls it “Golden Country”
• Sees dark haired girl taking off clothes in carefree gesture that he admires
• awakens with word “shakespeare” daily wake up call for office workers
• His job is to help control views of citizens by altering historical records
• Reflects whatever Party wants to promote
• Reality control

Question 6

Analysis of chapter 3

Answer 6

• Winstons dream sequence represents deeper thoughts
• His mother represents old world - when emotional ties between family and members were valued/respected
• countryside represents freedom
• word “Shakespeare” represents older values
• Winston struggles to negotiate discrepancy between evidence of senses + what Party wishes him to believe
• reality control - important of 20th cent totalitarian regimes = nazism + stalinism
• propaganda + surveillance - individuals tortured till they believe ideology
• Winstons dreams, memories, diary entries, challenge view of history

Question 7

Summary of Chapter 4

Answer 7

• We see Winston at work - rewrites new articles to reflect current version of history
• known as rectifying
• instructions arrive on rolls of paper through pneumatic tubes + disposed in memory holes (slits in walls leading to incinerator)
• All books, films, photographs, newspapers
• ## Works at Ministry of Truth

Question 8

Analysis of Chapter 4

Answer 8

• Ministry of Truth is vast media operation to alter facts to suit what Party wants people to believe
• “he who controls the past, controls the future” - contradicts with Winstons core beliefs

Question 9

Summary of Chapter 5

Answer 9

• Character of Syme
• Ideologically orthodox - threat
• Syme believes if you reduce words associated with things such as freedom, idea behind word will also disappear
• citizens must be able to forget facts when in conflict with what Party wants
• Doublethink - swallowing obvious lies
• shortage of food, clothes, cigarettes
• buildings underheated + dilapidated
• Party reduced chocolate ration the day before
• Winston feels alone in how he sees society

Question 10

Analysis of chapter 5

Answer 10

• Syme - threat to totalitarian regime because of his intelligence - suggests he can become dangerous
• orwell viewed improverishment + destruction of vocabulary as primary tools of totalitarian regimes
• Symes delight in destroying words = apalling
• requires obedience to state + unquestioning support of policies - to do this citizens forget facts