What is the main idea of this chapter?

In Winston's mind the smell of perfume was "inextricably mixed up" with his experience with the prostitute, because women in the Party never wore perfume. What does "inextricable"mean?

Winston explains that "the Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it."

What does"distort"mean?

Winston explains that the women of the Party have had their natural feelings about sex driven out of them "by careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies . . ."

What does"conditioning"mean?

Winston wrote about the prostitute in his diary as a means of therapy, hoping it would help him to block out the tormenting memory. Did the therapy work?

Were there any words that you did not know?
You can always list them here.

Select the three Party principles.

war is Peace

freedom is Slavery

knowledge is Power

ignorance is Strength

As Winston and Julia walked to the edge of the clearing, Winston "… underwent a curious, slow shock of recognition."

What does"recognition"mean?

Julia brings real coffee, which is extremely rare: "…one did occasionally meet with [the smell] even now … diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again."

What does"diffusing"mean?

Winston understands that he could not withstand the torture methods employed by the Ministry of Love, "but if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings . . ."

What does"ultimately"mean?

The book explains that in a particular way of looking at things, War is Peace, because "The effect would be much the same if the three super–states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries."

What does"perpetual"mean?

What is the main idea of this chapter?

The poet Ampleforth is led into the white–tiled room, and Winston decides that "He must speak to Ampleforth, and risk the yell from the telescreen. It was even conceivable that Ampleforth was the bearer of the razor blade."

What does"conceivable"mean?

The prisoners are kept in a state of dreadful unknowing: "Winston's entrails contracted. Soon, very soon, perhaps in five minutes, perhaps now, the tramp of boots would mean that his own turn had come."

What does"contracted"mean?

Winston's neighbor, Parsons is brought into the cell. He, too, is terrified, but feels differently about being arrested than Winston or Ampleforth: "The tone of his voice implied at once a complete admission of his guilt and a sort of incredulous horror that such a word could be applied to himself. "

What does"implied"mean?

Parsons' daughter has turned him in for committing Thought Crime. He was talking in his sleep. What did he say that was criminal?

Another prisoner is led into the white–tiled room. It is apparent that he is being starved to death: "Because of its thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionately large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous, unappeasable hatred of somebody or something."

What does"disproportionately"mean?

Winston thinks of Julia: " 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.' But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it."

What does"intellectual"mean?

When O'Brien comes into the white–tiled room, Winston cries out, "They've got you too!" and O'Brien answers him: 'They got me a long time ago,' said O'Brien with a mild, almost regretful irony."

What does"irony"mean?

After the guard hits Winston on the elbow with the truncheon, "One question at any rate was answered." What does Winston now believe is the worst thing in the world?

After making Winston look at himself in the mirror, O'Brien asks, "Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?" What does Winston answer?

Please enter the first three words of a sentence that shows your answers is correct.

Explaining the torture methods of Room 101, O'Brien explains, "By itself,' he said, 'pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable —— something that cannot be contemplated."

What does"contemplated"mean?