'1984' OBH's

Question 1

First quote of book

Answer 1

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”

• Instant setting of tone in dystopian world, off-putting

Question 2

INGSOC

Answer 2

English socialism –> egalitarian, all should be equal.
Shared property and wealth.
Working together for common good.

Question 3

Party slogan

Answer 3

“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

• Corrupting logic

Question 4

Winston questioning Julia’s identity

Answer 4

“she might be an agent of the Thought Police”

• Comparison to The Handmaid’s Tale –> not able to trust anyone, the eyes vs the thought police & not being able to fully trust

Question 5

Emmanuel Goldstein

Answer 5

AO3 - Representation of Stalin’s enemy, Trotsky - Represented by Snowball in Orwell’s Animal Farm

Question 6

Past being updated/altered

Answer 6

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was being brought up to date”

Question 7

History being altered all the time

Answer 7

“All history was a palimpsest”

• A manuscript which is constantly being written over
• Comparison to THT: You can see what once was but it has been written over by a new regime, imposed onto what was USA
  –> “a palimpset of unheard sound”

Question 8

Statistics

Answer 8

“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version”

Question 9

Winston’s pleasure in his job

Answer 9

“Winston’s greatest pleasure in life was in his works”

• Contributes to horror of dystopian society

Question 10

Lies in records

Answer 10

“the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.”

Question 11

Comrade Ogilvy

Answer 11

“Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago”

• Replacing Comrade Stakhanov

Question 12

Words

Answer 12

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”

Question 13

Orthodox thinking

Answer 13

“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

• Not allowing any expression whatsoever
• Conventional normal

Question 14

Parson’s child forcing an arrest

Answer 14

“My kid made sure he was some kind of enemy agent”

Question 15

Propaganda - Hate week, gratitude to Big Brother

Answer 15

“New, happy life”

Question 16

Sex instinct

Answer 16

“The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it”

Question 17

Sex as rebellion

Answer 17

“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime”

Question 18

Proles, hope

Answer 18

“If there was hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the Proles”

Question 19

Proles, free

Answer 19

“Proles and animals are free”

Question 20

Winston understanding the past

Answer 20

“I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY”

• Manipulation of the past

Question 21

Freedom, +=

Answer 21

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four”

• Foreshadowing the end

Question 22

Facecrime

Answer 22

“Not to let one’s feelings appear in one’s face was a habit that acquired the status of an instinct”

Question 23

Feeling of love instilled by Julia

Answer 23

“At the sight of the words ‘I love you’ the desire to stay alive had welled up in him”

Question 24

Emotions

Answer 24

“No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred”

• corruptness of society

Question 25

Sex as a political act

Answer 25

“There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy”

Question 26

Glass paperweight significance

Answer 26

“It’s a little chunk of history that they’ve forgotten to alter”

Question 27

Mr Charrington’s room

Answer 27

“Getting there was difficult and dangerous, but the room itself was a sanctuary”

Question 28

Sanity

Answer 28

“Sanity is not statistical”

• not something that can be controlled by the Party

Question 29

We are…

Answer 29

“We are the dead”

Question 30

Parson’s irony

Answer 30

“It was my little daughter”
“Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?”
“It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway”
- Caught him saying “Down with Big Brother” in his sleep whilst “listened at the keyhole”

Question 31

O’Brien trying to save Winston

Answer 31

“I shall save you, I shall make you perfect”

Question 32

“Only a rebel…

Answer 32

…from the waist down”

Question 33

Party slogan - control

Answer 33

“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”

Question 34

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces…

Answer 34

…and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”

Question 35

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not…

Answer 35

…interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power”
- O’Brien

Question 36

“the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought… we shall make thoughtcrime…

Answer 36

…literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”
- Syme

Question 37

“If they could make me stop loving you…

Answer 37

…– that would be the real betrayal”
“They can’t do that”

Question 38

“The more men you’ve had,…

Answer 38

…the more I love you.”
“I hate purity, I hate goodness!”

Question 39

“in a room…

Answer 39

…with no telescreen”
- Foreshadowing

Question 40

“falls to the floor,…

Answer 40

…uncovering a telescreen behind it”
- “We can see you”

Question 41

“the danger of…

Answer 41

…concealed microphones”

Question 42

“the shabby little room…

Answer 42

…above Mr Charrington’s shop”

Question 43

Julia - picture

Answer 43

“I bet that picture’s got bugs behind it”

Question 44

Doublethink

Answer 44

“to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies”
“consciously to induce unconsciousness”

Question 45

Family as police

Answer 45

“The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police”