Winston's Thoughts on Julia and Charrington

The thought police

Charrington

Lemons and Oranges

They allow martyrs, the party does not

Rationing and controlling food

Propaganda; Correcting news, entertainment, education, and fine arts

Law and order

War

For being a rebel from the waist down

Parsons

Winston’s apartment

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

Julia

Victory mansions (Winston lives here)

Learning
Understanding
Acceptance

The spies

3 innocent men

The 11th edition of the newspeak dictionary

A character Winston made up

Room 101

He can turn off his telescreen

Razors

A poet

The ministry of love

Anti- sex league

Leader of the Brotherhood

Katherine

Comrade

The telescreen

The Chestnut Tree

Parsons

Parsons

O’Brien

Prostitute at miniluv (not the one he sleeps with)

A minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London, Winston Smith is a thin, frail, contemplative, intellectual, and fatalistic thirty-nine-year-old.

Winston hates the totalitarian control and enforced repression that are characteristic of his government.

He harbors revolutionary dreams.

a mysterious member of the inner Party who WINSTON thinks is a member of the Brotherhood but who actually works at the Miniluv

Though he never appears in the novel, and though he may not actually exist, Big Brother, the perceived ruler of Oceania, is an extremely important figure. Everywhere Winston looks he sees posters of Big Brother’s face bearing the message “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” Big Brother’s image is stamped on coins and broadcast on the unavoidable telescreens; it haunts Winston’s life and fills him with hatred and fascination.

A character Winston makes up, he is the perfect Oceanian

intelligent, works at the ministry of truth, specializes in language, works on a new edition of the newspeak dictionary before getting vaporized

A fat, obnoxious, and dull Party member who lives near Winston and works at the Ministry of Truth. He has a dull wife and a group of suspicious, ill-mannered children who are members of the Junior Spies.

supreme enemy of the state; once a high-ranking member of the party

Winston’s former wife who was a “mouthpiece for the Party.” He hated being with her and she hated sex, and couldn’t produce a kid, so they parted.

An old man who runs a secondhand store in the prole district. Kindly and encouraging, Mr. Charrington seems to share Winston’s interest in the past. He also seems to support Winston’s rebellion against the Party and his relationship with Julia, since he rents Winston a room without a telescreen in which to carry out his affair. But Mr. Charrington is not as he seems. He is a member of the Thought Police.

the three men who are wrongly accused of thought crime and planning against the party, Winston had a picture 11 years ago which proved them Innocent but he put it in a memory hole, O’Brien shows him the picture when Winston is being “corrected”

ministry of peace; in charge of perpetual warfare

Ministry of Truth (propaganda) – Department of the government in charge of all record keeping, history re-writing, and news.

Ministry of Plenty (rationing). The Ministry of Plenty controlled the entire economy. he Ministry of Plenty does the opposite of its name, since it is in charge of maintaining poverty, scarcity, and financial shortages.

Ministry of Love (law and order). “The place where there is no darkness,” its interior lights are never turned off. ironically named, since it is largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering, and torture. In a sense, however, the term is accurate, since its ultimate purpose is to instill love of Big Brothe

London, England (known as “Airstrip One” in the novel’s alternate reality) in 1984. Winston’s apartment, the office canteen, the room at Charrington’s, Room 101.

Winston buys a paperweight in an antique store in the prole district that comes to symbolize his attempt to reconnect with the past. Symbolically, when the Thought Police arrest Winston at last, the paperweight shatters on the floor.

Throughout the novel Winston imagines meeting O’Brien in “the place where there is no darkness.” The words first come to him in a dream, and he ponders them for the rest of the novel. Eventually, Winston does meet O’Brien in the place where there is no darkness; instead of being the paradise Winston imagined, it is merely a prison cell in which the light is never turned off. The idea of “the place where there is no darkness” symbolizes Winston’s approach to the future: possibly because of his intense fatalism (he believes that he is doomed no matter what he does), he unwisely allows himself to trust O’Brien, even though inwardly he senses that O’Brien might be a Party operative.

visible symbol of the Party’s constant monitoring of its subjects. In their dual capability to blare constant propaganda and observe citizens, the telescreens also symbolize how totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization.

1984 is not just about totalitarianism; it makes us live through totalitarianism. The Party wants power for its own sake. The Party carefully monitors the behavior of all of its constituents.

English Socialism

the language before the revolution containing words that are dangerous to B.B.’s control over society

deliberately ambiguous and contradictiory language use to mislead and manipulate the public

A rebel group that is supposedly led by Emmanuel Goldstein “the enemy of the people.” It is unknown if this group actually exists due to the fact that O’Brien said that he was part of it and was actually a villain and a member of the thought police.

a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights

Daily telescreen specials in which various elements of crimethink were packaged into a parade of horrible images and sounds, at which, the viewers were expected to boo, hiss, curse and release any negative emotions upon.

Where Winston works in the Ministry of Truth.

sub-section of the Fiction Department which used women as workers and turned out cheap pornography for the proles; nicknamed Muck House

individualism and eccentricity; desire to do something for your own benefit. (i.e. hobbies, ownership of property, love, or any other Thoughtcrime)

One of the 3 Superstates. (Political System: Neo-Bolshevism) Comprised of the whole northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal to the Bering Strait. Eurasia was Oceania’s enemy at the start of the novel, and by the end Eurasia had always been Oceania’s ally.

sort of like a paper shredder for 1984; sends old papers to a furnace in the Minitrue; helps Party eliminate the past and control cizitens’ minds and memories

Reality Control. The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accept both of them.

Two way television. All party members have one in every room of their apartments. Because of this, the party member is never out of earshot of the latest party propaganda, and not one second goes by that they are not under the surveillance of the party. There was no way to change the channel, and the telescreen could not be turned off except by members of the Inner Party.

To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc. Doubting any of the principles of Ingsoc. All crimes begin with a thought. So, if you control thought, you can control crime.

artificial insemination, what O’Brien hopes will happen in the future in his attempts to abolish the orgasm

organization for women promoting chastity; wear a red sash

“…A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence…”

one day, someone might just disappear and their name erased from everything ever. They have been vaporized, or wiped out from the world supposedly for doing something wrong.

to speak without thinking. Applied to the oppenent it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

prole word for rocket bomb

Victory Mansions, Winston’s home, is a smelly, run-down place with no electricity in the daytime and an inoperable elevator. It is certainly no mansion.

Frail, blonde, 39, blue overalls, nervous, depressed.

The two-way telescreen, the Police Patrol swooping down in helicopters to peer in people’s windows, the constant fear of being targeted as an enemy by the Thought Police, the posters of Big Brother with reminders that “Big Brother is Watching You.”

Ignorance is strength. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

The Ministry of Truth oversees news, entertainment, education, and the arts. The Ministry of Peace is in charge of war. The Ministry of Plenty is concerned with economic affairs, and the Ministry of Love enforces laws.

It indicated that he was expressing thoughts not planted in his head by the Party. They are completely oblivious to human rights.

The enemy of the people and the focus of the Two Minutes Hate. It gives the people a “traitor” to unite against, reinforcing their own witless devotion. His heart went out to him. Toward the girl with dark hair, who was pretty and sexless and seemed very orthodox.

He wrote “Down with Big Brother” over and over in his diary. They are vaporized and their existence is forgotten.

They play “Thought Police” they go to hangings, hikes, and drills with their youth group, the Spies.

That O’Brien whispered to him, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

“a few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” Thoughts.

Because he is guilty of thoughtcrime, and he knows he will be found out eventually.

To provide a medium of expression appropriate to the proper mental attitude of Ingsoc devotees, all unnecessary words are to be purged.

A vocabulary, for everyday life; B vocabulary, compound words such as goodthink, crimethought, used for political purposes; C vocabulary, scientific and technical terms,

Most were destroyed, but some were rewritten.

That he is intelligent and politically unorthodox; that he knows something about the Brotherhood.

He was high and above his mother and sister, watching them drown in a sinking ship. He realized that his mother sacrificed her life for him; he realized that love, loyalty and depth of emotion like his mother’s no longer existed, and that he was too young and selfish to ever have expressed his love for his mother to her. The past, when emotions existed.

There can be no tragedy if there is no emotion and no privacy. We can “learn” from the tragedies that happen to others, such as drunk driving accidents. We also learn to feel compassion, perhaps to alleviate suffering, to grow stronger from our own tragedies, and to be thankful for good fortune.

The dark-haired girl from the office flung off her clothes in a wonderful defiant gesture.

To rewrite articles from the past so that the Party appears to never have been wrong; to eradicate names of those who have been vaporized.

Yes. No.

It requires the belief that what is true NOW was always true, and that the past has not been altered.

Proletarian literature is concerned with rubbish- sports, astrology, sex, and sentimentality; Party literature is a bit more intellectual, although it is complete propaganda.

He is a made-up model citizen. He is a symbol of the party’s dishonesty, since he does not exist, yet people believe he does.

Because he is too intelligent. He is too stupid.

Winston’s wife, no longer with him. Propagation.

The Proles. They make up 85% of the population, and since they are illiterate slaves of the Party they are not considered important. They have, however, retained a certain amount of humanity, which requires no intelligence.

Winston had seen a newspaper photograph showing the counter-revolutionaries Jones, Aronson, and Rutherford in Eurasia on the same date that it was later reported they were confessing to their activities in Oceania. This was hard evidence if distortion, that the confessions were lies, but Winston threw the newspaper photo into the memory hole, too terrified to keep it.

He understands HOW; he does not understand WHY.

That the solid world exists and its laws do not change.

Million of people participate, yet the winners are few. It gives false hope to many people. In our society, there are also those who make a living by “predicting” numbers for people.

A piece of coral inside a hemisphere of glass. It seems to belong to a past age.

There is no telescreen, and old 12-hour clock, a big bed, and the room seems somehow a safe haven from the intruding eyes of Big Brother.

There are no longer any church bells, yet the rhyme recalls their sound for Winston. The rhyme, too, is from a past age.

Citizens did not normally feel empathy or sympathy for their peers. Winston thought Julia as “the enemy” so his concern was doubly hard to understand.

Winston trusts Julia because he saw that she was “frightened out of her wits” when she handed him the note.

Trying to follow her home would be dangerous since he might be seen; all letters were opened so he couldn’t write to her. Just going up to her at work would be too suspect.

They stood together in a large crowd watching a procession of Eurasian prisoners. They had to look straight ahead and talk without moving their lips.

He has been suppressing such feelings for 12 years.

He wants to know that Julia loves his true self, with nothing hidden.

She loves the excitement of getting away with something, enjoys sex, uses foul language, and seems to have found a way of being fairly happy by appearing to be a model citizen. She is much more daring than Winston.

He is a thinker and tries to be logical; the Party discourages private emotions.

They were doing something that was completely unorthodox: defying Big Brother by feeling good and loving one another.

She is interested only in the facets that directly affect her life and interfere with her wishes. She doesn’t seem to object in principle or have much interest in an intellectual discussion.

A private sex life would be out of the Party’s control; sexual deprivation created a hysteria that could be funneled into war fever and leader worship.

He has stopped drinking so much and has out on weight. His cough and varicose veins have improved.

The room above Mr. Charrington’s antique shop.

Sugar, white bread, jam, milk, coffee and tea. That it is lies; there are shortages of everything.

The piece of coral, like the feelings in Winston’s and Julia;s hearts, is protected by the glass the way the room protects them from the eyes of Big Brother. Both the coral piece and the lover’s feeling are from a past world.

He’s quite sure of the shop owner, and even fond of him.

O’Brien speaks to Winston in a way that indicates Winston is right about O’Brien being in the Brotherhood.

To each other. Humans.

O’Brien to Winston (several times in story; in Winston’s dream, once out loud)

Party slogan

Katharine (Winston’s wife)

Winston; written in his journal

Mr. Charrington in his ‘iron voice’ behind the portrait

Julia to Winston

Winston, in Room 101

O’Brien to Winston

That red singing lady (does she even have a name idk)

Mr. Parsons talking about his daughter turning him in

Syme

Syme

Said by Julia to Winston

Winston’s mother after her husband disappeared

Winston to Julia

Julia to Winston

Winston; written in his journal

Winston to O’Brien, who had just burned the photograph and declared that it did not exist

Syme to Winston

Doublethink (a paradox, which basically contradicts itself but, according to the Party, still holds true)

Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), Ministry of Love (Miniluv), Ministry of Peace (Minipax), and Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty)

“Victory Gin”

Ampleforth

O’Brien to Winston (in Room 101)

instructor lady on telescreen

Julia to Winston after they betray each other

Africa

“Golden Country”

Mr. Charrington

Julia after “falling”

Wilsher

Ash trees

A thrush lands in front of them and begins singing.

Real chocolate, real coffee, real tea, real sugar, makeup, perfume (violets),

Julia to Winston, talking about rats

Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford (quote said by O’Brien)

Eastasia

O’Brien to Winston about Big Brother

Julia

Parson’s nine year old son

Winston’s perception of making love to Julia

Bluebells