George Orwell

 London, Airstrip One, Oceania  Victory Flats  Ministries: of Love, Truth, Peace, Plenty  Eastasia, Eurasia (the other two superstates along with Oceania)

 Winston Smith: (Outer) Party member, protagonist  The dark-haired girl: works in Minitrue in the Fiction Dept.; Party member  O'Brien: Inner Party member; shares a glance with Winston  Goldstein: traitor and enemy of the Party

telescreen ● Newspeak ● Thought Police ● Big Brother ● Hate Week; the 2- Minutes Hate ● Minitrue ● 3 slogans (pg. 4) ● doublespeak ● Junior Anti-Sex league ● Goldstein, the Brotherhood, and the book ● Mass conformity ● Thoughtcrime

 PAGE 6-7 ● Begin: "But it had also been suggested..." ● End: "...his predicament would be useless." ● Topics: laws, communication  PAGE ● Begin: "In its second minute..." ● End: "...aggressive symbol of chastity." ● Topics: hate, lust, violence

 "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" (2)  "You had to live...in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." (3)  "How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible." (7)

● "[Goldstein] was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity." (12) ● "The horrible thing about the 2 Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in." ● "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER." (18)

 We are introduced to the Parsons - Winston's neighbors in Victory Flats.  Pay attention to HOW the children act toward their mother and toward Winston.  Winston will recount a dream regarding O'Brien, and he continues to write in his diary.

 The Parsons' flat – “bigger than Winston’s and dingy in a different way” “Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal” “usual boiled cabbage smell…but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat” (21).  Winston's flat

 Mrs. Parsons - wife of Tom (we'll meet him later)  mother of two; breaks off her thoughts mid-sentence  “Colorless, crushed-looking woman, with wipsy hair and a lined face” (20).  “Dreary whiney sort of voice” (20).  “Dust in the creases of her face” (20).  “the look of helpless fright on the woman’s grayish face” (24).

 ● The Parsons' children: son = 9, daughter = 7  both dressed in the uniform of the Spies  disappointed that they couldn't see the hangings  ironically call Winston "traitor" and "thoughtcriminal“ “Goldstein”  “calculating ferocity in the boy’s eye” (23)

 Tom Parsons: “fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms”  “completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended”  “An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of testimony to the strenuousness of his life, following him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone” (22).

 Seven years ago  Walking through a pitch-dark room and someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”  Recognizes the voice as O’Brien’s  Didn’t know the meaning of the words only that someday it would come true  Not sure if O’Brien is a friend or enemy

 Party-sponsored organizations (i.e. Youth League and Spies)  Family connections ● "Link" between O'Brien and Winston ● Connection to future

 PAGE ● Begin: "'You're a traitor!' yelled the boy..." ● End: "...denounced his parents to the Thought Police"  Topics: ○ family connection ○ loyalty ○ Is this beneficial to the Party?

 "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." (27)  "He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary." (27)  "It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage." (27)

 "Now that he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible." (28)  “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death” (28).  “To the future…” (28).  “From the age of uniformity…” (28).