identity theme

Question 1

power

Answer 1

through denying humans their individuality, eradicating independent thought through the use of propaganda and terror

Question 2

winston

Answer 2

tries to assert his individual nature against the collective identity the party wishes for him to adopt

Question 3

Winston’s rebellion

Answer 3

keeps a private diary

engages in a forbidden sexual relationship

insists his version of reality is the truth

Question 4

manipulation of thought

Answer 4

Winston enters room 101 believing that to die hating the party is freedom, but in the end he is no longer able to think this

Question 5

the rats

Answer 5

in order to save himself from the rats, Winston betrays Julia and in doing so relinquishes his own morality and self-respect

Question 6

persuasion of the party

Answer 6

“the terrible thing that the party had done was to persuade that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account”

Question 7

control of innermost feelings

Answer 7

“something was killed in your breast; burnt out, cauterized out”

Question 8

one of the main themes

Answer 8

in 1984 and the Road is the struggle for identity

Question 9

fight for survival

Answer 9

The Road - world falling to pieces with cannibalistic mobs but still attempt to survive for each other

1984 - Winston’s fight for survival is one of an individual

Question 10

love

Answer 10

The Road - the man’s selfless love “if you died I would want to die too”

1984 - Winston’s selfish love “do it to Julia”

Question 11

party suppresses individuality

Answer 11

aim of Newspeak - “narrow the range of thought”

the reduction of language reduces the potential to express one’s individual identity

Question 12

diary and relationship with Julia

Answer 12

make him an individual, but by the end of the novel, he is no longer an individual as “he had won victory over himself” and the Party had created a oneness of thought between Winston and BB