I

1) What is funny ironic (and even funny) about Winstons

thoughts when Julia hands him a note?
- Winstons mind wanders off into the land of what if?
- The girl could be a part of the Brotherhood or that she was from the
Thought Police delivering the message that he had been caught
- Irony: the notes contents contradict all his previous thoughts. Julias
intentions were the exact opposite of what Winston had feared. She too
was against the partys overbearing and oppressive nature.
2) What is the effect that Julias note has on Winston?
- Winston is stunned and shocked and completely helpless
- Julia, someone he believed to be a keener in regards to the party had
an interest in him and furthermore had now made herself a target to
be for Big Brother.
- Winstons entire day became difficult, his work, Parsons in the
cafeteria, and to top it off a night at the community center.
- The note truly affected Winston in a way that he had never
experienced.
3) What is significant about the statue of Oliver Cromwell?
- It is unique how the statue of Oliver Cromwell can be standing in
Victory Square near the vicinity of Big Brother.
- As we know that the Party is able to rewrite history as many times as it
wishes to, the remnant of this 17th century English military and
political leader is noteworthy.
4) Explain the effect of the juxtaposition at the end of this section
- Gives us a jolt back into the reality of the situation.
- In the previous few lines we are enticed by the description of Winston
gently caressing all the details in Julias hand, and next of whether he
eyes were blue or brown.
- Finally we are reminded that they are watching Eurasian prisoners
being transported, the contrast between the beauty in Julias potential
eye colour and the stark direness of the mournful eyes in the prisoner
gives us mixed feelings on the current situation.
II
1) How has Julias sash changed, in Winstons mind?
- Winston believed that the sash was a symbol of Julias devotion to the
party,
- In reality, it was all an act; she wore it so nobody in the party would
suspect her. At the end of the chapter when Julia tells Winston how
many times she has done this, he believes that the sash has been
reduced in its power.
2) Why does Winston have difficulty at first with Julia?
- Julia seems to be well experienced as she leads in finding the area
behind the boughs just off the path.
- Winston on the other hand has never been to this place and is
inexperienced with what is about to happen.

The defiance and the reason why Julia could want him are still buzzing
around his mind.
3) What is ironic about the fact that Julia saw Winstons rebellion
from his physical expression?
- Julia was able to spot Winstons rebellion from his physical expression
- Ironic: Winston believed that he was putting on a proper job of
concealing his true feelings from the potential enemy, Julia.
o In reality if Julia was working with the thought police Winston
would be long gone because she was able to tell Winston was
rebellious.
4) Why is the singing bird so hard for Winston to comprehend?
- Everything in Winstons life was for a purpose; everything he did was
because someone was watching judging him, forcing him to do
whatever he did in a way.
- However, the bird sang without a mate or rival watching it. It sang for
the simple pleasure of singing, even if it all amounted to nothing.
5) What does Winston find most erotically attractive about Julia?
- Julias corruption; I hate purity, I hate goodness. I dont want any
virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
Winston Smith
III
1) Explain the sentence she hated the Party, and said so in the
crudest words, but she made no general criticism of it
- She wanted a good time but the party was against anyone having a
good time
- She only cared about Party matters when it involved her and
therefore made no general criticism of it
- She was more into rebelling than starting a revolution
2) According to Julia, why does the Party frown on sex for
pleasure
- Sex created a world of its own which had to be destroy
- BUT mainly, sexual privation encouraged excitement, which could
transform into war-energy and leader worship
- Ultimately, to transform the madness and excitement for sexual
activity to devotion to the military and Big Brother
IV
1) What is it that makes Winston at last feel tenderness toward
Julia?
- It was when she told him she could not come and his desire
changed
- He began to care for her and adore the smell of her hair, the taste
of her mouth
- He felt great affection for her; it changed from lust LOVE
- He realises he does not want to share her with any other men and
wants to be like a normal married couple
2) How does Winston misunderstand the song of the prole woman
below the window?
It was an opeless fancy,
It passed like an Ipril dye,

But a look an a word an the dreams they stirred

They ave stolen my eart awye!
- It shows the reality of the proles' life
- The proles express themselves in song, even if it is horrible
- Any hope for the future must come from the proles.
- A symbol of the hoped-for future to Winston; overthrow the Party.
- But, in the end Winston's efforts were just an 'opeless fancy'
3) How have Winston and Julia reversed traditional gender roles
in this room?
- The traditional gender role involved the men being the breadwinner
and the more aggressive ones in the relationship
- In contrary, Julia brought the bread, the jam, coffee and tea etc.
- In addition, she was the one who initiated the relationship
4) What elements of foreshadowing appear in this section?
- The rats and the bugs - even though, it seems like everything is
going well for them, the rats and bugs portrays that it is infested
and corrupted
- His nightmare of the wall of darkness symbolises that something
dreadful is coming (Death)

Chapter V
1. The Party inflicts harm upon its own citizens. The Party does this to spur hatred
among its own citizens, who blame the enemy for all of the destruction they
receive. Society is kept together when they all have something in common to hate.
This is one of the ways in which the Party can control the citizens. The more that
the citizens hate the enemy, the more love they possess for Big Brother. Also, it
is unlikely that an enemy would commit its atrocities at a time so close to the Hate
Week.
2. The old man seemed seldom or never to go out of doors, and on the other hand to
have almost no customers. He led a ghostlike existence ... he seemed glad of the
opportunity to talk. Wandering about among his worthless stock ... he had vaguely
the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman. (pg. 150)
Mr. Charrington is a very suspicious man indeed. We find out later in the book
that he is a member of the Thought Police and turns in Winston and Julia to the
Inner Party. Seeing how he never went outside of his shop and never had any
customers, hints to us that he wasnt a shopkeeper after all, but just remained in
the shop in order to spy on Winston. His ghostlike existence suggests that
Winston couldnt exactly read who Mr. Charrington was as a person, and
separates him from people that are potentially trustworthy. His eagerness to talk to
Winston seemed like a friendly gesture initially, but it was probably just an
attempt to pry information from Winston. Lastly, Mr. Charringtons vague air of
being a collector rather than a tradesman further hints to the motives behind his
actions. Being a collector can be seen as his tendency to collect information rather
than exchange it, which goes on the fact that Mr. Charringtons job is actually do
sniff out disloyal citizens for the Party.

3. There is an oxymoron in the paragraph that begins with Sometimes he talked to

her ... The difference between Winston and Julia is emphasized in that Winston
is more mature and thinks more than Julia. This is shown in the lines Such things
did not appear to horrify her. She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet
at the thought of lies becoming truths and It did not make much impression on
her. At first, indeed, she failed to grasp the point of the story.
Chapter VI
1. Winston believes that OBrien is a member of the Brotherhood, a rebel group
opposed to Big Brother. His assumptions are further cemented when OBrien
makes a deliberate reference to Syme, a person who has recently disappeared. At
the start of chapter 8, Syme is gone from work and his name is gone from the list
of people on the chess club. This is interpreted as Syme is dead. At the beginning
of Chapter VI, Part 2, OBrien seems to confirm Symes death by saying that he
does not remember his [Symes] name. This implies that Syme has become an
unperson and that he never officially existed. Any reference to him would be
dangerous. Winston thinks to himself OBriens remark must obviously have
been intended as a signal, a code word. By sharing a small act of thoughtcrime he
had turned the two of them into accomplices.
But in reality, OBrien is not guilty of thoughtcrime. He is a member of the Party
whose job is to scout out members of the Party who dislike Big Brother and then
rehabilitate them so that their hatred is converted into love. The ironic part is
that Winston interprets OBriens comment as a cue to join forces together against
Big Brother, whereas the reality is completely the opposite.
Chapter VII
1. Winstons mother sacrificed what she had to her loved ones. She loved Winston
and died loving him, despite Winston acting so selfish to her when she was alive.
The ability to shelter and make sacrifices for your loved ones has been driven out
of people in Oceania. An example of this would be the children who are
encouraged to turn their parents in if the parents are having wrong thoughts.
Also, Winston remembers his mother as a noble person who lived according to
her own private standards and remained true to her emotions. In the world of the
Party there is no room for emotions.
2. [The Party] can make you say anything anything but they cant make you
believe it. They cant get inside of you. This quote is saying that the Party cannot
get inside their minds and cannot make them believe whatever they are told. This
means that although the Party can try and control the things that the people say
and can force them to repeat the things they hear, they cannot make the people
believe any of it. But as events show, Winston and Julia severely underestimate
the power of the Party to control their minds. They discuss their eventual capture
and say that they will not betray each other once they are caught by the Thought

Police, because the Party cannot make them stop loving each other. The ironic
thing here is that both Winston and Julia end up betraying each other. They
thought they had loved each other but by betraying each other they have
demonstrated love for the Party over everything else. Now they are nothing more
than pawns of the government.
Chapter VIII
1. The wine which OBrien serves Winston and Julia is only available to Inner Party
members. They use the wine to toast Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the
Brotherhood. Wine reminds Winston of his vanished, romantic past, the olden
days in his secret thoughts. Winston had thought that wine would be immediately
intoxicating and intensely sweet, but once he tastes it he finds out that he cannot
stand the taste because he is so used to drinking victory gin. This is indicative of
what is to come, as Winston conspires against the Party but fails to oppose the
Party in the end. Something (wine) which had represented freedom and good days
for Winston turned out to be impossible to
2. There were millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the main if not the only
reason for remaining alive. Everyone in the Party knew that only small sums of
prizes were actually awarded out, big prizes were awarded to non-existing
persons. The lottery was also a tool of the Party to keep the masses pacified.
Proles were too concerned over the lottery to develop ideas of rebellion against
the Party. Similarly, Goldstein and the Brotherhood were invented by the Party to
eliminate oppositions. In the story, Winston tries to join the Brotherhood and that
is how OBrien traps Winston and Julia who are eventually tortured into loving
the Party.