1984 part 2 flashcards

1
Q

when does Julia give Winston the note

A

after he walks out of the lavatory, where her arm is in a sling and she gives him a note after he helps her up

he og thought she was a spy

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2
Q

what does the note say

A

ily

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3
Q

throughout part 2 what can be said about Winston

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  • Winston begins to feel emotions: willing to take bigger risks for bigger results, i.e. exposing himself as a thoughtcriminal to be part of the Brotherhood
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4
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  • thoughtcrime
A

holding rebellious beliefs that are anti-Party
ex. 2+2=4

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5
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facecrime

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holding an unpleasant expression on your face: expressing disloyalty or dissent towards the Party

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6
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doublethink

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hold 2 contradictory beliefs and accept both to be true
ex. war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

war is destructive and allows for unity

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7
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crime stop

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mental conditioning involving halting any thought that could lead to rebellion

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8
Q

where does Winston talk to Julia, and who gets in the way

A
  • talks to her in the canteen
  • Wilsher gets in the way bc he wants to sit with Winston, and W+J have to talk fast bc of Ampleforth and how close he is to Winston
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9
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where do W+J decide to meet

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Victory Square

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10
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what happens at victory square

A

Eurasian soldiers get tortured by crowd

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11
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when does Winston open the note

A

at work

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12
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how does Winston feel about Julia’s “impurity”

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  • Julia associated herself with Inner Party members
  • Winston likes this as it makes him feel that he isn’t alone in his impurity and that the Inner Party members are also impure
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13
Q

what does Julia say about the inner party members who engage with her

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INNER PARTY MEMBERS: channel frusturations for their desires into anger

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14
Q

Winston’s biggest fear

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  • rats
  • foreshadow: In charringtons beginning of the end and in part 3 it leads him to betray Julia
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15
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Winston’s interpretation of the paperweight

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paperweight: room
coral: His and Julia’s life
glass: “fixed in eternity”

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16
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St. Clemens song

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  • to remember the churches
  • part of his past
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17
Q

last lines of St. Clemens and meaning

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“Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!”

  • the first line expresses how Winston temporarily experiences freedom and liberty, by meeting o’brien and being with Julia BUT the control the party has overcome that and he will meet his demise as shown by the second line
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18
Q

What happens to Syme

A

vaporized

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19
Q

Winston decides to do what to have more privacy

A

rent out Charrington’s room upstairs

20
Q

Winston meets O’Brien after O’Brien does what

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talks to him about meeting him to discuss a new Newspeak dictionary (10th edition) at his apartment

21
Q

who does Winston bring to O’Brien’s place

A

Julia

22
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Winston vs Julia perception on rebellion and the party and the brotherhood

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Julia is not as keen on rebellion and prefers to survive in the moment, not interested in joining the brotherhood but is anti-party, Winston looks long-term and wants to rebel against the Party to stop them forever.

23
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what does Winston tell O’Brien

A
  • enemies of the party
  • thoughtcriminals
  • disbelieve in ingsoc
  • is an adulter (extra-marital affair)
  • want to join the brotherhood
  • ready to do anything: murder, throw acid, etc. but Julia is unwilling to leave Winston
24
Q

what can O’brien do

A

turn off his telescreen

25
Q

who is with O’brien and what does o’brien say about getting caught

A

Martin his butler
- bound to happen
- but the faces of the members of the brotherhood will be different immediately

26
Q

what happens the next morning after reading the book

A
  • charrington reveals himself as a member of the thought police as a tele screen was hidden behind the painting and says “You are the dead”.
27
Q

some information on Emmanuel’s book

A

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
- power is held by the 1% while forcing collective conformity

  • “War itself is a weapon of man”
  • war is a tactic of control by the elite who aren’t themselves not getting their hands dirty
  • keep the poor poorer so that its easier to keep them in power
  • proles can rebel, they are the only hope
  • oceania: British empire, lots of land
  • Eurasia: russia, large population + resources
  • East Asia: leftover countries joining as an allied force, tech strengths amongst people
  • the war is an orchestrated strategy employed by the ruling elite of each superstate to maintain control over their respective populations since all states have the same control mechanisms.
  • party is unhumanely controlling
  • critique of newspeak
  • examination of social hierarchy
    -discussion of resistance
28
Q

what does Julia get from prole community

A
  • real coffee and chocolate
  • makeup: powder, lipstick, blush, and eyeshadow
29
Q

Symbolism of Prole woman that Winston hears singing and the song she was singing

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  • she has something to live for: her children and grandchildren and were living happily
  • optimism in the face of adversity, human nature can’t be broken so easily
  • similar to when Julia said that they cant get inside you, and look at what you really think
30
Q

what happens when Julia and Winston get caught

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the paperweight breaks symbolizes how small winston is

31
Q

painting was of

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English cottage country house, St. Clemens possibly

32
Q

meaning of “we are the dead”

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  • agree that their suppression of Party ideology can land them dead, recognized by Charrington
33
Q

thrush symbolism

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-freedom
- it just sings out of pure desire not for attraction or purpose

34
Q

what does Julia say about bombs

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  • dropped by the party themselves, fear mongering technique
35
Q

chocolate dream importance

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  • Winston still needs growth, his humanity isn’t fully there
36
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“war means no more than a continuous shortage of the consumption of goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb”

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  • keeping that fear-mongering alive
  • deprivation and scarcity, manipulation to stay in power
  • focus on protection because of how fearful you are prevents security, and you rely on authority
37
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maslows hierarchy and 1984

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  • ppl are kept at physiological needs
  • deprivation causes desperation
  • control tactic
  • Winston moves up to self-esteem with Julia and O’Brien
  • safety and security is never met because of war
38
Q

two party problems

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1) how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking (thought police can’t)
2) how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand (ref. to nukes)

39
Q

Inner party accounts for…

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less than 2% of people
- not born into it, admission is required involving an examination at 16, proles can’t and the smart ones are killed by the thought police, avoiding cross contamination

40
Q

changing the past is necessary because

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1) safeguard the infallibility (inability to be wrong) of the party
2) the party member tolerates present-day conditions because there are no standards of comparisonso u control the present

41
Q

what does Winston NOT get

A

the goal of the party, WHY do they do this? aside from power and wtv.

42
Q

SANITY IS NOT STATISTICAL

A

basis for sanity:
- what you think is right relative to the number of people the stats would the mean that:
1) o’brien, Julia, Winston, NOT SANE
2) everyone else, MAJORITY–SANE

43
Q

what did O’Brien tell Winston

A
  • he will receive a briefcase containing Emmanuel’s book by someone which Winston does
44
Q

Julia says what about the brotherhood

A

that she believes its fake and is another ploy by the Party to keep people in power

45
Q

Katherine

A
  • Winston considers throwing her off a cliff
  • they were away from others, Winston found it curious and Katherine found it unorthodox
46
Q

who gave Winston the briefcase?

A

a man sent by o’brien before the events of hate week