Please help me with the questions from the book 1984 1. Choose three primary character traits to describe Winston. Choose one quote to demonstrate each choice and explain why you chose this.
2. Why is it important that Winston has started to write a journal? What is the significance of writing in this society?
3. Explain the purpose of a telescreen.
4. Explain the “two minutes h. a. t. e.” Who is Goldstein? How do the Party
members react to him?
5. Who is O’Brien? What does Winston feel about him?
Chapter 2:
1. Explain the significance of the children at the start of this chapter.
2. Explain what thoughtc. r.i. m.e is in your own words.
3. What does the quote, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness,”
mean to you? What do you think it means to Winston?
Chapter 3:
1. What happens in Winston’s dream?
2. Look back at page 13 in Chapter One regarding Winston’s transfer of h. a.t. e to
the dark haired girl. Compare and contrast his feelings toward her during the h. a.t. e to his feelings/experience during the dream. How does it compare to John’s feelings toward Lenina in Brave New World?
3. Explain doublethink in your own words. Try to come up with one of your own examples. How does this reflect the three slogans of the Party?
Chapter 4:
1. What is Winston’s job at the ministry? What are the dangers of changing our history? Do a close reading of his job with Comrade Ogilvy. Explain the quote, “It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.”
2. How does this compare to the method of control of information in Brave New World? Cite specific examples.
Chapter 5:
1. What is newspeak? What is the purpose of newspeak? Give some specific examples and explain their significance.
2. Who is Syme? Choose one quote that you believe defines him as a character and explain why you chose it. What function do you believe he serves in this novel? Why does Orwell include him? Explain your answer.
3. Why do you think dystopian novels so often attempt to destroy or remove literature or art from their societies? How does it differ from the methods used in Brave New World?
Chapter 6:

1. What are the rules regarding s. e.x and marriage for members of the Party in Oceania? What does Orwell seem to be satirizing or criticizing about this society? What does he suggest about our own society?
2. Choose two quotes from Winston’s experience with the prostitute. Explain the tone of these quotes and use specific words within as examples to demonstrate your claim.
Chapter 7:
1. How does Prole life differ from the life of the Party members? Why is this the case? Cite specific examples from the text.
2. Analyze Winston’s quote: “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled the cannot become conscious.” Do you agree or disagree with Winston?
3. What is the current understanding of what happened in the past? How does that differ from our current understanding of the past in our own world? What does George Orwell seem to be commenting on or criticizing? (hint: look up capitalism and communism)
4. What happened during the purges of the Revolution? Who are Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford? Analyze the song on page 77.
5. Explain the quote: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Chapter 8:
1. What does “ownlife” mean? What does Winston’s “ownlife” consist of?
2. Summarize Winston’s conversation with the old prole man in the pub. What
did we find out about the past? What can you infer about life as a prole?
3. Make an inference about the meaning of the nursery rhyme in this chapter.
What do you think it means? Why do you think Orwell includes it?
4. Describe Winston’s interaction with the dark-haired girl. Why do you think
she has appeared so often throughout the book. Make a prediction about what may happen in the future.