Chapter 1 part 1
1. Discuss the omnipresent posters of Big Brother in terms of his physical appearance as well as the phrase “Big Brother Is Watching You.” What does the caption imply about the society in which Winston Smith lives? Are these implications supported by evidence from Chapter 1?
In chapter 1, we know lots of things about Winston Smith’s life. Big Brother is the leader of Oceania, but he does not exist, still it influence the way that people live in this book.
We absolutely know that Big Brother does not exist because first of all, none of the party member has seen Big Brother, it could be based on someone, but he can’t be alive because he had ruled for long time. Secondly, he is never shown up, he is always on telescreen, or poster, even when he speaks his speech, he is on the telescreen, and he never dies. The party still shows the face of Big Brother because they want absolute power, and they want to keep it.
Winston’s life is very complicated because he has no freedom, privacy, or he can’t even think about negative thoughts, he has to be unorthadox, and double think (you think your real thoughts, but you pretend that you are not thinking, you are thinking another thoughts). He is being every time, and if the party thinks that he thinks of any rebellion, he will be tortured. The phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, it means that he will be watching through the telescreen no matter what. For example, even in the café, there is telescreen. So Winston is living in hard society.
These implications are supported by evidence from chapter 1 because in chapter 1, it shows that Winston is being watched, it shows that he can not communicate, neither look, glance to people. And we could know Big Brother is the leader because he is always on the telescreen, watch people, and control everything.
Winston lives in horrible place because he can not keep privacy, not even reading a real good book because it might show that rebellion will happen, but because party does not want, they support horrible books. To conclude this essay, As Big Brother always watch people, they have no power.
Discuss the three party slogans and what each statement implies about this society. What does the public’s easy acceptance of these mottos suggest about the populace at this stage of the story
There are three party slogans, War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. These means that having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. For example, because people are having war, they have to work harder in order to not tortured, so they work harder that they have no time to think about anything, so this will keep the people united (they are forced to be worked precisely, and because party wants to keep power they made this slogan.) According to the party. Men (whole people) who are independent always fail their life, good example is Winston later in the book, after he became independent, and he became very careless that he will be tortured some day. Ignorance is strength I think it means that if you just ignore everything, you will achieve what you want from the party, party is watching you and someday, if you approve, they will make you to work in the party.
Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Winston’s mother. What are his conflicting emotions? Tell why her death is doubly tragic, in view of societal changes since Winston’s childhood.
In chapter three, Winston dreams Golden age, golden country basically means the best time of the country, just like history, and in this case golden country is the country that Winston desperately wants. I said desperately because Winston never wants to live in the country that he wants to.
In his dream, he dreams that he keeps his privacy, he reads, and he can write. But he dreams about death of his mother (precisely, he dreams his mother is in sinking ship.) He feels very sorry for her, also he feels responsibility about her, and his sister because they have sacrificed for Winston to live more (this is why her death is doubly tragic). He destroyed the picture that it was illegal.
In my opinion, his dream is very prophetic. He dreams dark-haired girl, Julia, she meets her later on in the café, but he feels fear when he noticed Julia is following him every time because he thought that he was the agent of thought police. Another prophetic example is about O’Brien he said, “we shall meet in the room without darkness”, it just means Winston is going to succeed someday to prevent the party for having no privacy, and later on Winston actually meets O’Brien in the room without darkness. So his dream is prophetic for the later in the book.
Winston’s mother died twenty years ago, at that time party did not have that much power, after him mother died, unfortunately, the party started to have absolute power that no one can have rebellion.
Winston’s dream shows the background of his life, and the party. And because it is prophetic, his dream is one of most important part of the book.
Winston wakes up with word Shakespeare.
Discuss the implications of Winston’s dreams as acts of thought crime.
Winston’s dream is very thought criminal because it kinds of shows the rebellion because he does not really think about any rebellious thing. However, his dreams are all about having freedom, privacy, and love with Julia. Thought crime is just same as the word, a person who thinks about rebellious is thought crime that is why there is thought police, and telescreen. I think that Golden Country is one of thought crime because you can’t really see, but in his dream, he dreams about he having lots of time of freedom, and party does not exist.
Thought crime is very complicated, order to not be caught, you should not write yourself, you shouldn’t read the book that is about rebellious (but you can read the book that the party provides.). To the party, Winston’s dream is definitely a thought crime because he dreams about the things that the party does not want. But fortunately, he was not caught because he doublethink, and it is dream. So party will have difficult time to figure out unless Winston acts rebelliously.
He has action that will be able to cause the thought crime. His diary, and book will be caught some day. He is not supposed to write any diary because it makes him to think about negative things about the party (but yet, he did not write any mad, angry expressions, he did not have these kind of emotions when he writes diary).
If we think of Winston’s dream as prophetic thing, he will be caught someday because he dreams he is being chased, and all the dreams that he has dreamed are true, and prophetic, he dreams show his future life that he is going to be caught and tortured.
Part 1, Chapters 4 and 51. Discuss the function of the Ministry of Truth. What is ironic about its title? Explain what Winston does there and how he feels about his work. Explain how the creation of Comrade Ogilvy supports the Party motto. Ministry of Truth concerns about the News, there are ironic things about this. I think there are two things about this title.
When they give people news, they will give propaganda, we can easily know party is going to do this by reading a book, the theme of government is “false is reality”. Ministry of Truth will give people about wrong information to keep their power forever,
The reason why Ministry of Truth is doing this is that they never want to lose their power; they want to control the people. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, his job is to fix the speech of Big Brother’s, he hates the party, but he likes his job so much (he is good at his work). Comrade Ogilvie is a creation of Winton’s; he made him to help the Party motto. How he helps the party is, he speaks to the people in telescreen.
How would you explain both Parsons’ and Syme’s acceptance of obvious propaganda? Discuss the reasons.
Parson and Syme both work in the Ministry of Truth. Syme is an intelligent person who works in New Speak, Winston thinks that he is too intelligent for the party, but one day he will be vaporized because he thinks too much, which he should not do. Parson also works in New speak, but he is not as smart as Syme, and he follows the rule from the party because fears of torture.
It is very obvious to see both of people’s acceptance of obvious propaganda, they are not like Winston, they want to follow the rule that Party made because they never want to be vaporized and tortured, they want to live, even though they know that Party or oligarchy is ruling very terribly that everyone know that they are not doing right things. To live in this country, they have to follow the rules, so if the party ask them to accept propaganda, they certainly will accept because they fear, are afraid of the party.
Another reason why they want to accept is that they are one of party member, they are working in Ministry, they live better than anyone else, even though they are being watched, and they live better than the proles. Well, everyone is better than proles because party make them distract by supporting bad music and literature because the party knows that if proles become rebellion, they have no power to prevent them, and everyone who works in Ministry will be enemy of proles. However, Syme and Parsons don’t want Proles to be rebellion, it is too late that they tell the truth to the proles, and the final way to live is listening to the party.
If I was Syme or Parsons, I would become rebellion, I will sacrifice myself, to wake up the proles that the party will be gone forever because it is ridiculous to be watched every time, but if I can sacrifice myself, everything will be changed. So I would not accept propagnda.
What does the upstairs room at Charrington’s shop mean to Winston? Why does he buy the paperweight? How might this action be interpreted symbolically?
This action is start of rebellion because he goes to room that has no telescreen, this is an absolute rebellious action because he sleeps with Julia, reads in the room 101, write his thoughts, but this is ironic because we know that Winston is going to be caught later on (from the dream), upstairs room at mr.charrington’s shop mean to Winston is a room for him to stay, and without telescreen.
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