19841984: WAR!!! (DAY TWO): WAR!!! (DAY TWO)

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23 April 200923 April 2009

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1.1. 1. What can O’Brien do with 1. What can O’Brien do with his telescreen that Winston – his telescreen that Winston – or any Outer Part member – or any Outer Part member – cannot?cannot?

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1.1. 2. Why does Winston think to 2. Why does Winston think to himself that “no emotion is himself that “no emotion is pure” at the end of the pure” at the end of the second chapter?second chapter?

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1.1. 3. What is Winston willing to 3. What is Winston willing to do for the Brotherhood? do for the Brotherhood? What does Julia refuse to do, What does Julia refuse to do, and how does Winston and how does Winston respond? respond?

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1.1. 4. What is the terrible 4. What is the terrible dream/memory that Winston dream/memory that Winston has of his family? What was has of his family? What was his family like? his family like?

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1.1. 5. What three groups of 5. What three groups of people have always existed people have always existed in any society? What are in any society? What are their goals, and why are they their goals, and why are they irreconcilable?irreconcilable?

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1.1. 6. How does Winston react 6. How does Winston react before reading Julia’s before reading Julia’s message? What does he do message? What does he do with it after he reads it?with it after he reads it?

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1.1. 7. Why would the spoils from 7. Why would the spoils from advanced technology and advanced technology and industrialization – progress! – industrialization – progress! – threaten hierarchical society, threaten hierarchical society, even in one where power even in one where power remained in the hands of remained in the hands of relatively few?relatively few?

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1.1. 8. Ultimately, how is the 8. Ultimately, how is the Party’s slogan “War is Party’s slogan “War is Peace” accurate?Peace” accurate?

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1.1. 9. Explain 9. Explain crimestopcrimestop and and blackwhiteblackwhite..

2-2-1-1-2-1-2-12-2-1-1-2-1-2-1 10. What does Orwell call 10. What does Orwell call

“the secret of ruling”?“the secret of ruling”?

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1.1. 11. What’s Julia’s theory 11. What’s Julia’s theory regarding the Party’s “sexual regarding the Party’s “sexual Puritanism”?Puritanism”?

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1.1. 12. Why were the old 12. Why were the old tyrannical regimes tyrannical regimes “inefficient”?“inefficient”?

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1.1. 13. Why does Julia believe 13. Why does Julia believe one should “always yell with one should “always yell with the crowd”?the crowd”?

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1.1. 14. What is the purpose of 14. What is the purpose of the war? the war?

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1.1. 15. Why won’t the war ever 15. Why won’t the war ever end?end?

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1.1. 16. Describe the scene where 16. Describe the scene where O’Brien contacts Winston.O’Brien contacts Winston.

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1.1. 17. Which people are most 17. Which people are most rational about war, and why?rational about war, and why?

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1.1. 18. Why does Winston see 18. Why does Winston see the proles as “human the proles as “human beings”?beings”?

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1.1. 19. Describe the astonishing 19. Describe the astonishing event that occurs at the end event that occurs at the end of Hate Week, as well as its of Hate Week, as well as its consequences for Winston.consequences for Winston.

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1.1. 20. What is doublethink?20. What is doublethink?

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1.1. 21. How did Ingsoc become 21. How did Ingsoc become both like and unlike both like and unlike Socialism?Socialism?

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1.1. 22. What were the atomic 22. What were the atomic wars of the 1950s like? What wars of the 1950s like? What was their main consequence?was their main consequence?

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1.1. 23. Which great fear of 23. Which great fear of Winston’s is revealed in Winston’s is revealed in Chapter IV?Chapter IV?

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1.1. 24. Winston is startled by 24. Winston is startled by one of the places he sees one of the places he sees after meeting with Julia. after meeting with Julia. What’s noteworthy about it?What’s noteworthy about it?

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1.1. 25. Why does Winston say 25. Why does Winston say “We are the dead” at the end “We are the dead” at the end of Chapter III? Why does Julia of Chapter III? Why does Julia disagree? disagree?

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the Party, and what are the the Party, and what are the two problems it perennially two problems it perennially faces?faces?

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1.1. 27. How does Julia’s message 27. How does Julia’s message “change” Winston’s thoughts “change” Winston’s thoughts and actions?and actions?

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1.1. 28. Why can the proles be 28. Why can the proles be granted intellectual liberty granted intellectual liberty while even a party member’s while even a party member’s smallest deviation from smallest deviation from orthodox thought will be orthodox thought will be crushed?crushed?

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the beginning of Chapter 5 – the beginning of Chapter 5 – i.e., been vaporized? What’s i.e., been vaporized? What’s the prevailing reaction to the the prevailing reaction to the disappearance?disappearance?

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1.1. 30. What does Winston wish 30. What does Winston wish he had done after showing he had done after showing Katharine the flowers? Why Katharine the flowers? Why is/isn’t he sorry about his is/isn’t he sorry about his actions?actions?

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1.1. 31. How can one continue 31. How can one continue producing goods without producing goods without adding to a society’s adding to a society’s “wealth”?“wealth”?

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1.1. 32. What is the “essence of 32. What is the “essence of oligarchical rule” Orwell oligarchical rule” Orwell names at the bottom of page names at the bottom of page 209, and how does this differ 209, and how does this differ from more traditional from more traditional assumptions regarding how assumptions regarding how power is transmitted?power is transmitted?

2-2-2-2-2-2-2-22-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 33. What are the four ways 33. What are the four ways

that ruling groups can fall from that ruling groups can fall from power – and what is the single power – and what is the single most important factor that most important factor that determines whether they stay determines whether they stay in power? Which of those in power? Which of those “dangers” no longer exist – “dangers” no longer exist – and which is the only one that and which is the only one that remains necessary to “check”?remains necessary to “check”?

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“while wars could be won or “while wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible”? Why completely irresponsible”? Why does he state that in the present does he state that in the present day, warfare has become a day, warfare has become a “purely internal affair” – and “purely internal affair” – and why is it simultaneously unreal why is it simultaneously unreal and meaningful?and meaningful?

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1.1. 35. How is the mutability of 35. How is the mutability of the past related to double-the past related to double-think? think?

2-2-2-2-2-2-2-22-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 36. What happens to Winston 36. What happens to Winston

and Julia at the end of Part and Julia at the end of Part Two? Who betrays them?Two? Who betrays them?