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* Orwell was dying of tuberculosis while he wrote it, and will himself to complete it
* Orwell was dying of tuberculosis while he wrote it, and will himself to complete it


== Warnings & phrophesies ==
== Warnings & prophesies ==


* excesses and dangers of democracy
* excesses and dangers of democracy
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* Thought Police
* Thought Police
== Terms & vocabulary of 1984 ==
== Plot ==
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
unperson
> to remove all information that a person even existed
Winston: = job to rewrite historical records
> memory holes
ex. his family member... and he doesn't remember much about them, or his sister
constant need to revise bc one lie is needed to cover the other
proles
> from "proletariat" = working class
>> socialist revs were supposed give power to the proletariat
<< orwell's
> not monitored, can do what they want
> easy to manipulate, don't have any power
> kept in ignorance
> entertainment:
>> lottery (fake)
>>> ppl hope for it, live for it.. knowing it's a lie.. it represents and escape that they don't control
>>> = a state of helplessness
<< lotto = emotional escape
>> aclohol, pornography
<<< physical escape from reality
> no religion << state doesn't want competition from God
<< the state acts like a religion (confessions, etc.)
Winston
> gets diary from the proles section
> realizes using is treason
O'Brien
> winston thinks he also hates Big Brother
Ch 1: we get Winston's
> doubts
> act of rebellion (diary)
> sees similar attitude in O'Brien
>> not alone
the Two Min Hate
Ch 2
> Winston paranoid from writing in the Diaory ... thinks the Thought Police are coming for him
> Mrs. Parson's kids are Junior Spies
>> theme
> later he just accepts that he's going be caught
Ch 3
> dream of his mother on a sinking ship
>> she was purged 20 yrs ago
>> so he's having doubts about the truth... thinking of his mother is treason
> Winston's attitude towards women
>> lustful, also hates  (has issues)
<< the girl in the office
> "shakespeare" on his lips
>>> remnant of the past (hasn't fully disappared)
>> whistle sounds = control
>> Physical Jerks >> mandatory grotesque exercise
> has thoughts of his childhood
> thinks about the history... the other states, why they're at war
> realized that no one had heard of BB until 1960s, but the published history of him goes to the 1930s
> surveillance: he's repreminand
Ch 4
= the mechanics of the control of information  
> at work
> BB is never wrong
>> W's job to match party records w/ new orders
> uses "speakwrite" machine
> examples of the lies >> less food but told they have more food than ever
> Winston invents Comrade Ogilvy to switch him out for another purged person
Ch V
> lunch w Syme ... who's working on Newspeak
> explains it's to limit thought to make thoughtcrime impossible
<< words and thought
> meets Parsons, father of the kids, who apologizes for them but is proud of them
<< Parsons thereby knows it's all wrong but goes w/ it
>> W sees him as someone who will live throught it.. the idea person the party wants
Ministry of Plenty
> lies about production increases
> W paranoid about dark haired girl
Ch 6
> writes in diary about sex w/a prole prostitite
> thinks about how the party hates sex and wants to remove pleasure from it
>> thereby sex would be a duty not a pleasure or natural process
> W's ex, Katherine, hated sex and left him when they reazlied they wouldn't have children
<< Katherin is also part of his problems w/ women
Ch 7:
> W writes in diary that proles are the only hope for revolution
<< where'd that thought come from?
> The Brotherhood = an oposing revolutionary group << W thinks they can't win
>> only the proles can 85% of the pop
<< but proles dont' have any interest
looks at children's book ... realizes the lies, city a mess, ppl in poverty
> W is starting to doubt the lies
> if party says 2+2 =5 you have to believe it
> W recalls in 1960s having seen original Rev leaders at a Cafe for out-of-favor emembers... and one, Rutherford cries...
W find a photo that proves they were actually in new york and not in the Cafe.. so the memory was wrong
the Winston destroys the photo of them
<< realizes this is clear evidence of a party lie
> he's struggling w/ truth and lies
> writes in Diary about O'Brien
>> thinkinga bout rebellion
> thinks that freeedom = ability to interpret reality on one's own, so 2+2 could be 4
Ch 8:
> goes to prole area
> tries to learn about what had really happened, speaks to an old man at pub who doesn't remember, or avoids it
<< W wanted to know if the rev was really about proles being exploited by capitalists... wants to know if the man was better off before or not
> goes to book store
> Mr. Charrington, the owner
>> takes him upstairs to where there's no telescreen
>> picture of a church on the wall
>> evokes an old rhyme of church bells
<<< the prole has a pict of a churc (religions are banned)
> on way home thinks he's being followed by the dark haired girl.. thinks she will turn him ib
> considers suicide
> calms himself by thinkin ab out O'Brien and a place w/ no darkness (escape) ... but this is disconcerting... thinks instead about BB by looking at coin and remembering the party slogan< W is peece, etc.
Themes:
> reality v perception
> ppls' interactions w/ the state
  >> we see different ppl and the way
> W's questioning growing
<< even though his job is to re-write history ... and he starts questioning the actual
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