1984

1984






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**Newspeak Dictionary**

11th Edition

> || Winston Smith – The main protagonist of Orwell’s 1984. He resents the authoritarian regime of the Party and tries to rebel, but is finally crushed in body and soul. Julia – Winston’s girlfriend. She also starts out with a strident anti-party stand and is suppressed in the same way as Winston is. O’Brien – a prominent member of the Inner Circle of the Party. He traps Winstoninto betraying his unorthodox views and presides over his torture and degradation. Mr. Charrington – a member of the powerful thought police, who disguises himself as a “prole” and entraps Winston. Ampleforth – One of Winston’s colleagues at the Ministry of Truth, whose job is to “rewrite” old poems in keeping with Party ideology. He is arrested for thoughtcrimes. Parsons – Another colleague of Winston’s who despite stupid and unquestioning adherence to the Party line is still arrested. Symes – Colleague of Winston’s who is executed. Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford – three original leaders of the Party who were later denouncedas traitors and executed. Emmanuel Goldstein – The number One Enemy of the People according to the Party. He is believed to have written a subversive book and to head a mysterious anti-party organization called The Brotherhood. Big Brother – the symbol of Party dominance. Big Brother’s precence is everywhere on posters, on cigarette covers, on coins and on telescreens.
 * * **Principles Of Newspeak** - An explanation of //Newspeak// grammar, written by George Orwell.
 * **Orwell's Newspeak **- Dictionary of all known //Newspeak// words.
 * **Charters **- Persons (and unpersons) from "1984".
 * **1984 v. Now** - George Orwell - The Prophet?.
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Book I Chapter I
chapter one introduces Winston Smith as the first character. He is described as a gentleman in his late 30's skinny and not able to move around as quickly as others. Also in chapter one the party, Big brother, and the type of world Winston lives in is also introduced. Big brother is supposedly the leader which they all fear and is watching all of them with "telescreens" and thought police and such others. Winston commits his first crime against the party by having a diary. he first attempts to write in the diary in chapter one. hes is too terrified to write about anything else so he write about what he saw on the telescreen. As Winston writes he thinks about the "Two-minute hate," or the rally that the ruling party manipulates the people to be on their side. He also ponders about the dark-haired girl who worked in the Ministry of Truth, who he is developing feelings for. O'Brien also comes across his mind. He is another member of the Outer Party, but Winston thinks he has plans against the party. Winston also disliked the party and Big Brother; as he was thinking he looked down and realized he wrote "Down with Big Brother."

Book 1 Chapter 2 Winston opens the door fearfully, assuming that the Thought Police have arrived to arrest him for writing in the diary. However, it is only Mrs. Parsons, a neighbor in his apartment building, needing help with the plumbing while her husband is away. In Mrs. Parsons’s apartment, Winston is tormented by the fervent Parsons children, who, being Junior Spies, accuse him of thoughtcrime. The Junior Spies is an organization of children who monitor adults for disloyalty to the Party, and frequently succeed in catching them—Mrs. Parsons herself seems afraid of her zealous children. The children are very agitated because their mother won’t let them go to a public hanging of some of the Party’s political enemies in the park that evening. Back in his apartment, Winston remembers a dream in which a man’s voice—O’Brien’s, he thinks—said to him, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” Winston writes in his diary that his thoughtcrime makes him a dead man, then he hides the book. (Bruce A)

Book l Chapter 3-
~ Chapter three begins with Winston dreaming/thinking of his mother and his little sister. He thinks that they were sacrificed so he can live; he even says he believes their in a well somewhere so that he can be up on earth the surface of earth. After awhile Winston pictures another setting of a sunny country. He imagined the dark haired girl from work throwing off her clothes and all Winston did was think about "Big Brother." He believes that when she freed herself of her clothing, she was standing against the party. When Winston woke up he said Shakespeare and started exercises he was required to do from the lady in the tele-screen. While doing the exercises, Winston, was thinking of a war back from when he was younger. Then he starts thinking of how Oceania is at war with Eurasia but years ago they formed an alliance against Eastasia. Then Winston says that it doesn't matter what anybody remembers, that what ever the party says is "truth." Then after a while of Winston's thinking the lady in the tele-screen tells him to pay more attention. This freaks Winston out.

Winston feels he is responsible for his mother's death/disappearance after he has dreamed about her and him on a sinking ship. He also dreams about the dark-haired girl in the Golden Country and her act of taking her clothes off wipes out the party and Big Brother and wakes up with shakespeare on his lips. A whistle wakes him up for exercise and thinks how he has no physical memory like a photo and Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Book One, Chapter Four - In this chapter The Narrorator explains Winston's job. After hearing about the many technological advatages in his cubical, he then explains the main goal of the Records Department, which is not only to "rectify" or change documents or articles that corresponds to Big Brother and the Inner Party's actions and predictions, but also to supply the public with various forms of entertainment and knowldge. The Narrorator explains that the past has been altered so much that even the date fades into the backround. Winston feels a definite hostel air at work. Nobody talks about their jobs, or to eachother really while working, but he knows quite alot about what other poeple do for a living. We find out that Winston's greatest pleasure in life is his work, and that he is quite good at it and losees himself from time to time within it. He then goes on to change an article and "unperson" a Comrade Withers, which he replaces with Comrade Ogilvy. Throughout the whole chapter Winston continuously glances over at the suspiciously annoying Comrade Tillotson, who he believes is altering the same article as he is.  Book One, Chapter Five -Winston is having lunch and a party member that works on the dictionary of newspeak for Oceania. His name is Syme and he tells Winston that the basic use for newspeak is to basically make thoughtcrime impossible by changing the citizens language so they have no room to rebel or even have the thought to rebel. Winston thinks that Syme is so bright and smart that he will be one of the party members that end up dying. Then Parson, the father of the two children who abused Winston of thoughtcrime earlier in the book apologized to Winston but claims to be proud of his children. Then an announcement came on the speakers talking about an increase in weight chocolate to twenty grams and the rest of the citizens were happy because they thought it as an increase just because it was told on the speaker but Winston realized that it was a reduction from before and then again he see's the dark haired girl and still nervous and thinking that she is a spy.

Book I Chapter 6  - In this chapter Winston writes about what he thinks the parties goals are in getting rid of sex. He also writes about the last time that he had sex which was with a prostitute, which is a forbidden act. In this chapter we learn the Party's views on relationships. The Party wants sex to be a duty to the Party for producing new members. In this chapter we learn the Party's views on relationships. This also in a sense gets rid of love for children. Winston also talks about his former wife Katherine. To Winston, Katherine was very absent-minded and stupid. She hated sex and when she found out they could not have children she left him because she could not fulfill her duty. Winston wants to have a sexual affair and knows it would be a great rebellious act against the Party. The whole time Winston is bringing up these thoughts and memories in his diary, he has the urge to scream out bad words. This reminds us of how controlled and trapped Winston feels under the Party's supervision. He cannot even cuss or scream in his own house.

//Book1 Chapter 7// //Winston writes in his diary that any hope for revolution against the Party must come from the proles. He believes that not even the legendary Brotherhood can stop them. The proles make up 85% of the Oceania population. Winston believes that they could be the one’s to overpower the police but because of their lifestyle they lack energy and interest to rebel against them. Winston started looking through children books to see how the really is. He found that the party claim to have had buildingds built but where Winston lives is a total wreck.. He doesn’t know what to think about the past. The Party’s claims that they have increased the literacy rate and reduced the infant mortality rate, and given everyone better food and shelter. Winston suspects that wahat they say is not true, but he has no way to know for sure, since history has been written entirely over by the Party.//

==Book 1 Chapter 8 In Chapter 8, Winston goes for a walk in the prole district. There he meets an old man in a pub who seems like he may know something about the past. Winston decides to ask this man what he remembers from the past and what is actually true, but the old man doesn't give Winston any helpful information. Winston realizes that the truth of the past probably won't be uncovered because only the proles know the truth but they're all old and forgetful. He leaves the bar and stops by the store where he bought the old diary. Book 2 Chapter 1 At Winstons job their was a girl with dark hair and with a sling and all of a sudden she purposely fell on the grround to get his attention and she did. So when Winston helped her up the girl gave Winston the note saying "I love you". When she left he didn't want to read it right away he wanted to wait until the right time and where he was alone to read it. So after eight minutes he read i and was shocked and confused. He wanted to know what this really meant and wanted to ask her about it. When he seen her alone at the lunchroom table he sat with her and they were very quiet.As they looked down they quietly started to conversate and wanted to meet again at Victory Square. They met at Victory Square but their was so much contrevorsey and conflict. As they were walking they came across prisoners going into truck and people yelling at them. Winston and the girl agreed to have a meeting somewhere else where their is no telescreens and big crowds.The girl gave him some directions to first take the train at the Paddington Station and meet her at a new hideing spot somewhere in the woods. Book 2 Chapter 2 Winston meets Julia in the country, and he no longer thinks she is a spy. They hit it off and Winston asks if she has done this with other members, and she says yes, that it is her way of rebelling. Book 2 Chapter 3 Julia and Winston decide to move back to their normal lives in London, but still plan meetings with eachother. They meet at an abandoned church and talk about their first sexual encounter. She tells Winston how she doesn't rebel against the party on purpose, she is just simply trying to have fun. He then tells her about a walk that him and his former wife went on when they were together and how he wanted to kill her by pushing her off a cliff. But Winston tells Julia that it doesn't even matter if he would of pushed her off a cliff or not because the government is oppressing them so firmly. Book 2 Chapter 4 Winston and Julia have not been able to spend allot of time together recently. So, Winston decided to rented a room above Charrington's shop so him and Julia could spend more time together. In the room from the window, Winston could her a woman singing. Julia brought sugar (real sugar), tea, bread, and most importantly cofee. Julia also brings make-up and she puts it on. In this cahpter you also learn that Winston is afraid of rats. Book 2 Chapter 5 In chapter five Winstons friend Syme has seemed to vanish. It is now the preporation for hate week and everyone is preparing, the paroles are rowder then ever. People hang banners, make posters, make signs and sing the "Hate Song" which was made for this week. Winston has become very obsessed with the room he has rented from Mr. Carrington. He can not stop thinking about it even when he is not there. He thinks about his wife Katherine dieing so that he and Julia can can get married. He even thinks about changing his identy to become a parole. Winston explains to Julia that he believes he and O'Brien have a conection and Julia tells Winston that she thinks war and party enemies like Goldstein to be party inventions. Winston gets mad at her because he does not think she is interested in what he has to say so he yells at her saying "she is just a rebel from the waist down"!==