1984

Katy Farrell
Mrs. Dean
English Honors A3
April 2, 2013
One:
1. Ministry Of Peace supports the war. The ministry of Truth promotes slogans that are clearly not the straight truth. The ministry of Plenty controls the food and Winston has no food. The ministry of Love controls punishments. They all perform the opposite of what their names intend.
2. The Victory Gin is foul and cheap but it makes Winston feel better and would imply something worthy of a victor, which it isn't.
3. The irony is that crimes aren’t illegal (nothing is illegal, since there are no laws), but if discovered it was certain that they would be punished by death.
4. It is ironic that she wears this sash when she is having sex with many men, including the main character; the sash contradicts her behavior.
5. The goal of people being sent to Ministry of Love is about Party purity. Once the person has been re-programmed to a state that the Party desires, the person is harmless and there's no need for execution.
6. One of the most grotesque is the brutal killing of those who do not listen to Big Brother, which is a part of the utopia of Oceania.
7. Newspeak is the fictional language spoken in 1984. It was created to limit free thought, freedom, and self-expression. Newspeak is a metaphor of the total dominance of the state.
8. Because Goldstein, the head of the Party himself, is black-haired and brown-eyed, it doesn't fit the Aryan mold at all.
9. Winston believess that “in the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” Before the end of his rehabilitation with O’Brien, Winston believes this to be true.
10. Things like sports and the lottery because the lottery is one of the most important things in their lives.
11. It is ironic that he chooses not to buy the picture on the wall because it represents everything that he has shown himself to be before this point and by not buying it, Winston is basically denying himself as well as his life.
Two:
12. The irony is that Winston believed he could hide his journal with its writing, thoughts, and hatred of Big Brother, by hiding it and showing a totally different face.
13. It is well accepted that the war is a fabrication of the Party to control the masses. An enemy wouldn't arrange its attacks to coincide with Hate Week, but the Party does. They inflict severe damage on their own citizens in order to blame the "enemy" and create more hatred.
14. Mr. Charrington will not give something up because he wishes to stay and admire.
15. The party completely consumes its people. All it does is aim to get inside of its people. Their goal is to make the population believe and think how they believe and think.
16. Ingsoc represents the ideology of totalitarianism in Oceania. A parallel example would be the leadership role of Adolf Hitler along with the support of the Nazi's. Another would be of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.
Three:
17. This may mean that he could have had similar feelings like Winston, dealing with rebellion, or it may imply him becoming involved with the totalitarian Ingsoc movement at its beginning phase.
18. The ministry of Love is a rehabilitation center that uses torture as well as brainwashing to force its prisoners into conformity and make them follow the rules set in place.
19. He finally realizes that he has been degraded by the party all this time.
20. Winston's last remaining part of himself and his own humanity is his love for Julia.
21. O'Brien places a mask over Winston's head and threatens to open the door and release rats on his face. When Winston screams, "Do it to Julia!" he lets go of his last remaining part of his humanity.
22. Winston is worried and realizes that his way to escape is to place another human between himself and the rats. He makes his choice, "Do it to Julia, not me, Julia."
23. Winston saves himself and begs the authorities to let Julia endure the suffering of the rats instead. The torture inflicted, and what Winston does to break free from it, shatters his promise to himself and to Julia: never betray her emotionally.
24. Winston suffers from an ulcer and can't make his way through the day without drinking the Victory Gin. Ulcers are aggravated by stress and in the end, the stresses make his ulcer pain much worse and create such a strong depression, he has to consume more gin to dull these pains.