1984 -George OrwellSUNDAY, NOV 14, 1993Summary Chapter 1 and 2 We are introduced to Winston Smith the main character of the story. Works at Ministry of truth. Ministry of truth is one of four governmentbuildings in destroyed London, the main city of Airstrip One, a province ofOceania. Year is 1984 and three contries are at war, Oceania, Eurasia andEastasia.
Oceania is run by the party whose leader is Big Brother. Winston is sick of his life in the ruined city and decides to keep a diary. This is against the law in Oceania. He felt his feelings begin to hateEmmanuel Goldstein, leader of the enemy party.
He also spots O’Brien, aparty leader whose eyes he see’s a bit of political sympthy. See’s younggirl who he dislikes. He feels it is only a matter of time before histhough crimes are detected. A knock at the door he thinks is police. Mrs.
Parsons, his neighbor is at the door and asked him to unclog a sink. Hedoes it but smells sweat all over the apartment. Mrs. Parsons is afollower of party doctrine and a fellow employee at the ministry. Thechildren are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and tellingon traitors, including parents.
Winston is revolted. He returns home andwrites a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers adream where O’Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is nodarkness. He washes his hands and hides the diaryReaction Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how theearth has changed, into 3 main contenients.
we are also introduced to themain character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown howthe computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy tounderstand, it has not really changed much over time. Seems like nothingleft after nuclear war, just ruins remaining. We are introduced to TomParsons which Winston is contrasted with. The city is very drab.
Quotes”Big brother is watching you, the caption beneath it said””Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. “1984 -George OrwellMONDAY, NOV 15, 1993Summary Chapter 3,4 and 5 Waking from dreams, he remembers his mother and sister, and can barelyremember their disappearence and feels responsible for there deaths. Hehas another dream where he is in the perfect countryside with the girl hehad noticed eariler. He dreamed she stripped for him. This time he iswoken up by the telescreen, telling him to do his exercises.
He thinksabout how much power the Party has over all information. Begins work atthe ministry of truth. His job is to correct printed articles in line withthe Party’s orders. The Ministry and records department jobs are torewrite history to make the party look good. They get a break because ofthe 2 minute hate.
When he gets back he replaces a speech by Big Brotherwith invented history. Makes up story about a man named Ogilvy. Thearticle had become contrary to the present party policy. It is replaced asthough is never existed. Winston meets Syme, a philologist, for lunch.
Syme explains parts about Newspeak. They are joined by Parsons. Winstonthinks of the fate that each co-worker will recieve. Syme will bevapourized because he is to smart, where Parsons is dull enough to escapevapourization.
He is the only one who has not been taken over by thepropaganda that is always being brodcast. He notices the same girl fromthe other day starring at him and thinks it is the thought police. Reaction The Golden country that he dreams about is definatly a release or afreedom from the the drabness of London. Also from the party. We areintroduced to the fact that he has no mother or father or sisters orbrothers anymore because they were taken by the party.
He is realizing thathe is rebelling against the party and he understands that he is at risk. Winston is in search of the truth and is concerned because of the party’sability to change history. We find that he likes his work even though it isfor the party and against morals. He is introduced to the girl that willplay a big part in the book most likely. Quotes”People in the Records Department did not talk readily about there jobs. “”Winstons greatest pleasure in life was his work”1984 -George OrwellTUESDAY, NOV 16, 1993Summary Chapter 6,7 and 8 He records in his diary and encounter a couple of years ago with aprostiture mad up to look young, but was really and old woman.
This menoryof the encounter causes him to think of the policy regarding sex andmarriage which the party has enforced. Thsi causes him to theink of hismiserable life with his wife Katherine, that he has not seen in elevenyears. Winston resents the intrusinon of the Party into the sex lives ofits members. Also realizes the discouragement of sexual enjoyment, thatmakes any love affair with a party member impossible. Writing down theincident does not help him. He makes another entry in his diary, this oneconcerning the proles.
He feels they are the only group that mightoverthrough the party, but they are unaware of it. There is no way offinding the truth about the past but he does think that present life isworse than the past. He remembers a photo that came into his possessiontrying to change the pastbut he destroyed it. He plans to stay free. Afterwork one evening, he wonders into the prole end of London, and ends up nearthe store where he bought the diary.
Follows man into pub and plans to askhim about revolution but man is incoherent. He leaves the pub and wanders. He ends up outside the little antique shop and decides to buy a glasspaperweight. Mr. Charrington shows him a room upstairs and Winston dreamsof renting it. He notices a dark haired girl following himand he is sureit is the thought police and he will be arrested.
Reaction We discover that people have a bond when it comes to sexuallity that theparty connot control. Even thought the party rejects sexual relationshipsbetween its members. Sexual experience is no longer allowed in the societyand Winston longs for one. He confesses in his Diary about his lastexpereince but it does not help. We find he has faith in the proles andthere ability to revolt. It is hard to set up a revolt with the thoughtpolice detecting every thought.
Winston reaches a crises with the thoughtpolice. Quotes”Winston reached down and cautiously scratched his varicose ulcer””Not a word could ever be proved or disproved”1984 -George OrwellTHURSDAY, NOV 18,1993Summary Part 2, Chapter 1,2 and 3 At work he runs into the dark haired girl again, in the hallway. Shefalls and while he is lifting her up she slips him a note. He reads it athis desk and is amazed to find that it simple states, I love you. Eagerand excited to meat with her, he has to wait 7 days until they eat togetherin the cafeteria.
They decide to meet in Victory square. When meetingthere, they arrange another meeting next sunday afternoon. At thedesignated meeting place, in the countryside outside London, he finallylearns her name. Julia explains that she considers herself rebelious tothe party. She has had sex with many other non-members.
Suddenly he walksinto the scene exactly like his dreem. She removes her clothes and theyhave sex. He belives that sexual desire may be the force that destroys theparty. Following there secret meeting they meet each othe occasionally. Julie arranges the meetings. They go a month without seeing each other butwhenever they can before and after.
She belives that she must pretend tocooperate with the party and in secret break the rules whenever possible. Winston thinks that rebellion is the best answer. They discuss past girland boyfriends and how the party controls them. Reaction He is ready for the Julia but is worried about a possible trap. Hisnegative approach to life and his sexual fustration make him ready anyhow. Once he commits to her he connot go back and he is committing thoughcrimes.
This may be the beginning of the end. He was happy to find that shewas not a virgin and had previous affairs. His idea of revolt is changedand he now is enjoying being corrupted. Julia takes charge of therelationship, showing her aggressivness.
She does not believe in Winstonsideas on rebellion and thinks that differently. Quotes”A sense of helplessness took hold of Winston””Between you and me, the antique trade’s just about finished”1984 -George OrwellTHURSDAY, NOV 18, 1993Summary Chapter 4,5,6 and 7 Winston does rent the room above the antique show and realizes thefoolishness of what he and Julia are doing. She brings him coffee and realsugar and real old-fashioned make-up. Julie tries to remember an oldnursry rhyme, while Winston immagines that he and Julia and the roomitself were all closed in like the paperweight. Many preperations for theupcoming hate week keep Winston, Julia and the others very busy. Winstondiscovers that his friend Syme has dissappeared and all records of him havebeen altered.
Meanwhile, Parsons is still busy and happy in thepreperations for hate week. He was right about them. Because of theincreased work load he and Julia do not meet as much but in the room abovethe antique shop they look at things from the past and other forbiddenthings. They discuss the hopelessness of there private rebellion and thatit cannot go on forever.
He is dissappointed that Julie does not rejectpropaganda from the partyand her theroy that the party sends bombs onitself. One day at work O’Brien gives Winston his address and asked him tostop by so tha he can lend him an advance copy of the Newspeak dictionary. Winstonthinks this is a conspiracy against the party and is excited but,thinks it will end in touture and death. Winston dreams of his motheragain and the hunger and awful conditions there were before thedisappearence.
He feals bad for asking for rationed food and stealing hissisters choclate. When he came back they were gone. Winston tries to tellher but she is tired. He is glad him and her have there own feeling towardeach other. Reaction He rents room above the antique shop showing his independence and hisplunge into the end. He wishes the room could be closed in like thepaperweight.
We find out how different the two main characters are. Thestate does not care what kind of person you you are. Julia understandingof the party is much better that Winston although she is nieve to manythings that the party does. Winston defines his rebellion in three steps,first the thought then the word(Diary) then the act(Julia). O’Brien seemsto be a good man, also in rebellion. His mother was like him.
Quotes”The timy interior of the shop ws in fact uncomfortably full, butthere was almost nothing in it of the slightest value””A sharp cry of pain was wrung out of her”1984 -George OrwellSATURDAY, NOV 20, 1993Summary chapter 8,9 and 10 Winston takes Julia to the O’Briens apartment. He wonderes is O’Brienis also a rebel because he finds him in front of the telescreen, hard atwork. Over toast he explains to Winston what is required of the secretrebel brotherhood. They except the terms of the menbership except thatthey will never see each other ever again.
O’Brien promises to be given acopy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, secretly in the future. After a longweek, of sorting through millions of documents, changing them to prove thatthe Party’s decision that Easstasia, and not Eurasia, was the enemy thatthey have been fighting all along. He rushes home to read the copy of thebook. He reads while lying back and relaxing.
Julia falls asleep when hetries to read her sections of it. When they awake from there sleep theystart talking, but a voice issues from behind the picture on the wall. Itis a hidden telescreen which instructs them not to move. They are rushedby armed guards.
The Thought Police had been observing them all along. Winston and Julia are violently seperated. Mr. Charrington enters the roomwithout his disquise, looking much younger. He is a menber of the thoughtpolice. Reaction Winston thinks of O’Brein as a strong, unexcitable man.
He is dedicatedand wholeheartyu to the brotherhood. Winston joins the brotherhood andtells about his dreams. We understand about hate week a little more. Winston reads the book that is given to him by O’Brien. Winston and Juliaget arrested.
They find out that O’Brien was the enemy. There was a sortafeeling that O’Brien was the bad guy, and they would get cought sonner orlater. Quotes”He was a bit early””The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told himof”1984 -George OrwellSATURDAY, NOV 20, 1993Summary Part 3 Chapter 1 and 2 Winston is being held prisoner in a large, crowded cell at the Ministryof Love. Ampleforth and Parsons are both prisoners also. Parsons was turedin by his own daughter for thoughtcrime.
He feels increased discomfort androom 101 is continually mentioned by several prisoners. O’Brien enters thecell with a guard and Winston now realized he has been betrayed by him. O’Brein is a member of the Inner Party. O’Brien orders the guard to strikeWinston who feels a great deal of pain on his elbow. Winston is torturedboth physically and mentally for an unknown length of time. He keepsgetting interrogated with beations and questions until he confesses to manycrimes.
O’Brien reveals that he has been watching Winston for seven years. O’Brein wants total rehab. from Winston. O’Brien explains why the partycan never be defeated.
He has been informed that Julia quite easilybetrayed him and has now been released totally rehabilitated. Winstonsquestions about room 101 is not answered. Reaction Finally he is caught by the thought police, which was inevidable sincethe beginning. He realizes that he has been betrayed by Julia and O’Brien. But he says he would never betray her. All time is lost while he is injail.
We is going to be rehabilitated and is taken to the dreded 101 formore mind games. Winston does not crack, except that O’Brien gets him tobelieve is a little crasy. Quotes”Listen the more men you have had the more I love you””We can come here once again”1984 -George OrwellSUNDAY, NOV 21, 1993Summary Chapter 3 and 4 O’Brien tells Winston th esecond stage of his rehab. is about to begin-understanding the why in party. He also tells winston that he wrotesections of Goldstiens book.
He says the Party rules for the sake ofpower, and power alone. The proles will never revolt. O’Brein questionshim further and punishes him when he does not answer correctly. Winstonsays he is morally superior to the Party, but O’Brien has a tape of theconversation about what Winston was willing to do to join the brotherhood. Winston thinks that the party will be defeated by a noble man, but O’Brienshows Winston himself in the mirror.
Winston weeps looking at his own agedand ghastly body. He conforts himself by thinking about how he neverbetrayed Julia. Winstons health is improving, and he is trying to acceptthe rightness of the party. He examines the past events and realilizes theparty was in control the whole time. He realizes also that he party canmake anything right if is wants to. He has to practice doublethinking.
Hewakes up from a troubled sleep, calling Julia’s name. O’Brien enters hisroom and Winston confesses that he still hates Big Brother. He is sent toroom 101. Reaction He had also looked to O’Brien for sanity and stength and kindness butnow he sees what he really is a power-hungry guy who likes infliction ofpain. He finds out he has been watched for 7 years. After being broken orcracked he still has the fact that he has not turned against Julia.
Theycompletely destroyed Winston and he has now entered the party. Quotes”Have you heard the rumours of the existance of the brotherhood. “”The brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an orgainizationin the ordinary sense””He was tired, but not sleepy any longer”1984-George OrwellMONDAY, NOV 22, 1993Summary Chapter 5 and 6 The torture room is brightly lit, room 101. O’Brien says that the roomcontains the worst thing in the world. It turns out to be rats in a cagewhich can be strapped over his face.
Winston yells and screems and isovercome by the horror and the terror. He screams that this punnishmentshould be given to Julia and not him. O’Brien spares his life. Winston isthen released. He is sitting under a tree at the Chestnut Tree Cafe.
Hedrinks very heavily now. He remembers meeting Julia and how they talkedabout how they betrayed each other. The party would not allow them to seeeach other, but neither felt anything anymore. He remembers a game of hischildhood but then it is pushed out by the broadcast that comes on thetelescreen.
Eurasia is once again the enemy. His heart fills with lovefor Big Brother. Reaction The party knows the worse nightmare of each person and is ble to usethat against them. It worked on Winston. Finnally he gives in and theparty has won.
Quotes “He did not attempt to kiss her, nor did they speek””He loved Big Brother”
