O'Brien's explanation of the Party's agenda is full of doublethink: "The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism."

What does"tolerant"mean?

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston has no idea whether it is night or day because the lights are always left on: "He had long grown used to sleeping with a strong light on his face. It seemed to make no difference, except that one's dreams were more coherent."

What does"coherent"mean?

Winston struggles to educate himself into alignment with the "immortal collective brain" of the Party: "By what external standard could you check its judgements? Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought."

What does"statistical"mean?

Winston begins to exercise himself in crimestop by presenting himself with "…propositions —— 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' —— and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them."

What does"contradicted"mean?

After crying out Julia's name, Winston "lay back on the bed and tried to compose himself. What had he done? How many years had he added to his servitude by that moment of weakness?" What does 'servitude"mean?

Winston knows that he will be punished for bursting out with Julia's name. While he waits to hear the tramping boots coming for him, "For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself."

What does"perceived"mean?

Before directing that Winston be taken to Room 101, O'Brien asks him to state his true feelings toward Big Brother. How does Winston answer?

O'Brien says that it is time for Winston to "take the last step". What does he say the last step is?

Were there any words that you did not know?
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What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston is a regular at the Chestnut Tree caf�. He drinks glass after glass of gin, even though "..the smell of gin, which dwelt with him night and day, was inextricably mixed up in his mind with the smell of those . . ."

What does"inextricably"mean?

Winston and Julia run across each other one time. Neither is that interested in seeing one another, but eventually they do walk and talk together. " [Julia] walked obliquely away across the grass as though trying to get rid of [Winston], then seemed to resign herself to having him at her side."

What does"obliquely"mean?

Winston is aware that something within him has changed because of the announcement that Oceania has defeated Eurasia: "He thought how ten minutes ago —— yes, only ten minutes —— there had still been equivocation in his heart as he wondered whether the news from the front would be of victory or defeat."

What does"equivocation"mean?

In the end, Winston feels greatly relieved: "Two gin–scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

What does"trickled"mean?

What do you think about this book now that it is over? What themes made an impact on you?

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Why does Winston sleep without pyjamas?

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

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston is tasked with handling "…articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify."

What does"rectify"mean?

When Winston finishes rectifying each message, he feeds "…them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames."

What does"devoured"mean?

Not everyone in the Records Department does the same work as Winston. For example, a man nearby is " …engaged in producing garbled versions …of poems which had become ideologically offensive . . ."

What does"ideologically"mean?

One of the articles assigned to Winston must be entirely re–written. He enjoys this type of work the most, but he knows he is not the only one assigned to do it: "So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place."

What does"fabrication"mean?

In response to his most challenging task of the day, Winston invents a fictional hero for Big Brother to praise. He stops short of awarding " . . .Comrade Ogilvy the Order of Conspicuous Merit: in the end he decided against it because of the unnecessary cross–referencing that it would entail."

What does"entail"mean?

The messages that Winston receives to work on use many words of "Newspeak", which is the language of the Party. What is the Party's name for standard English?

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You can always list them here.

Upstairs from the antiques shop is a cozy room, filled with antiques and without a telescreen Winston briefly considers the possibility of renting the room but knows it to be "a wild, impossible notion". What does "notion"mean?

At long last, Winston learns the girl's name. What is it?

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While Winston waits for Julia to meet him in the rented room, he listens to a woman outside the window singing. He knows that "…the words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator," but the woman makes it sound much better than it really is. What does "intervention"mean?