1984 Part II Chapters 5 6

1984 Part II Chapters 5-6
Chapter 5
1. Tell how Syme became an unperson.

Syme vanished, and his name was no longer found in any records or postings.
2. Describe the preparations for Hate Week.
Processions, meetings, parades, lectures, new slogans and songs, faking new pictures and
falsifying articles, and decorating buildings
3. Examine why the Party hangs the posters of the Eurasian solder.
It diverts the anger of the citizens onto the Eurasian soldiers (an external common enemy), so
they won’t rebel against the Party or Big Brother (the internal force that is actually the cause of
most of their anger).
4. Explain Winston’s comment, “Dirty or clean, the room was paradise.”
The room, where Winston is allowed to freely make love with Julia, gives Winston a sense of
privacy in that it allows for a disconnection with the outside world, in which Winston must act
accordingly to the Party’s orthodoxy and hate and danger is lurking.
5. Generalize why Winston feels a sense of “impending death” while finding sanctuary in the room.
Winston is really worried that he will be arrested and killed for being with her, and seeing his
friend (Syme) vanish reinforces that fear.
6. Assess why Julia does not believe that widespread opposition to the government exists.
She grew up with Ingsoc, so Big Brother and the Party are deeply ingrained in her as immutable,
indominable dominators of Airstrip One; she believes that the Party is thus invincible, so
systematic rebellion against the Party is inconceivable to her mind.
7. Contrast Julia and Winston’s reactions to questioning the Party’s teachings.
Winston questions how the Party is involved in everything and how it falsifies everything
(irrespective of its relevance to his personal life), whereas Julia is indifferent to the Party’s acts
of deceit and falsification unless it affects her personal life.
8. List two historical details that Winston questions, but Julia accepts.
1) The Party claiming to have invented the airplane
2) The enemy changing from Eastasia to Eurasia
9. Show what Winston means when he says, “Nothing exists except an endless present in which
the Party is always right.”
There is no accurate past because the Party constantly falsifies history to their needs, so
meaningful history has ceased to exist while “fake” history exists which is constantly altered just
as the present can be changed at any time.
10. Analyze how Julia accepts much of the Party’s orthodoxy while rebelling against it.
Julia is used to and accepts most of the Party’s orthodoxy in that her acts of rebellion are not
intended to undermine the underlying principles of Ingsoc and eventually overthrow the Party,
but they are carried out merely to express her hate against the Party on a personal level; she
also only cares about the Party when it affects her personally.
Chapter 6
1. What does O’Brien offer to Winston?

The 10th edition of the Newspeak dictionary
2. Describe how Winston is supposed to retrieve the item from O’Brien.
Pick up the dictionary from O’Brien’s flat with reference to the slip of paper that contains
O’Brien’s flat’s address
3. Show why going to O’Brien’s home is important to Winston.
It finally actualizes Winston’s long-thought dream of joining the Brotherhood through O’Brien’s
help, a moment Winston has been waiting for a very long time.
4. Analyze how O’Brien flatters and tries to bond with Winston.
O’Brien mentions that Winston writes in Newspeak elegantly; he also alludes to Winston’s
unpersoned friend Syme, giving Winston the feeling of being a co-conspirator, and by sharing a
secret O’Brien gives Winston the impression that he fully trusts Winston.
5. Generalize why Winston does not plan to immediately retrieve the item from O’Brien.
He thinks he is constantly being watched by the Thought Police, he thinks O’Brien is going to
give him more than just a dictionary, and he wants to brace himself for the moment in his life he
has been expecting for a very long time.
6. Evaluate Winston’s belief, “The end was contained in the beginning.”
Ever since writing the diary (the beginning), Winston knew that he will be arrested and killed by
the Thought Police (the end). Because Winston knows he is going to get killed anyway, this belief
encourages him to further rebel against the Party until his fate lands upon him.

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1. What does O’Brien offer to Winston?

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