1984 by George Orwell

Question 1

4 Great Motives

Answer 1

~ Sheer egoism
~ Aesthetic enthusiasm
~ Historical impulse
~ Political purpose

Question 2

4 Great Motives: Sheer egoism

Answer 2

~ Basically: “It’s all about me. I want you to remember me.”

Question 3

4 Great Motives: Aesthetic enthusiasm

Answer 3

~ beauty in the words

- description, typography, and the sound of it

Question 4

4 Great Motives: Historical impulse

Answer 4

~ Desire to see things as they are

~ To find out true facts + store them up for the use of posterity

Question 5

4 Great Motives: Political purpose

Answer 5

~ Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after

• No book is genuinely free from bias.
  
  • The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude

Question 6

Airstrip One

Answer 6

~ 4 ministries

• Love
• Plenty
• Truth
• Peace

Question 7

Ministry of Love

Answer 7

~ Torture and brainwashing

Question 8

Ministry of Plenty

Answer 8

~ Economic part

Question 9

Ministry of Truth

Answer 9

~ Propaganda

~ Get rid of stuff

Question 10

Ministry of Peace

Answer 10

~ Wages war

Question 11

3 “sacred principles” of Ingsoc

Answer 11

~ Newspeak
~ Doublethink
~ Editing the past

Question 12

3 Party slogans

Answer 12

~ War is Peace
~ Ignorance is Strength
~ Freedom is slavery

Question 13

Relationships: Worker/worker- Winston and coworkers (Tillotson, Symes, O’Brien)

Answer 13

~ Why no friends

• Drama
• labor unions! (too much talk)

Question 14

Re-education of Winston Smith: Learning

Answer 14

~ 2 +2 = 5

~ Learn by electric chair. Opens mind that it could be 2 + 2 = 5

Question 15

Re-education of Winston Smith: Understanding

Answer 15

~ Torture: can’t resist anymore because it hurts

Question 16

Re-education of Winston Smith: Acceptance

Answer 16

~ After torture, the individual will succumb to society and learn and accept the ways of society as long as they don’t feel pain again #Brainwashing

Question 17

What’s in Room 101? Why is this kept for the last torture?

Answer 17

~ The most potent to break you

~ He has that one shred of thinking (Recall: I hate Big Brother)

Question 18

“The World of Doublespeak”

Answer 18

Done

Question 19

“Goldstein’s Book”

Answer 19

Done

Question 20

“War is Peace”

Answer 20

~ “War Is Peace” because having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united

Question 21

“Freedom is Slavery”

Answer 21

~ “Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail.
- By the same token, “Slavery Is Freedom,” because the man subjected to the collective will is free from danger and want.

Question 22

“Ignorance is Strength”

Answer 22

~ “Ignorance Is Strength” because the inability of the people to recognize these contradictions cements the power of the authoritarian regime.