1. George Orwell 1984 Characters!
By: Shelby Blanton, Morgan Braun Melissa Soden

2. Winston Smith 39 years old Ulcer on his right ankle
He lives in Victory Mansion
Works for Ministry of Truth
Hates the totalitarian control
He harbors revolutionary dreams.

3. Big Brother “THE GOVERNMENT” – Dictatorship
Depicted the face of a man of about 45 with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features (may not actually exist)
HE WATCHES YOU AT ALL TIMES and his image is on everything from posters to coins

4. ThoughtPolice
People of the inner party that come after you if commit; thoughtcrime,
They can always watch you through telescreens.

5. Inner Party The people of the Inner Party wear black
Closer to the Government

6. Outer Party People of the Outer Party wear blue
“Outsiders” – don’t really have any say
Are more watched by the telescreen’s because they cant be trusted

7. O’Brien
A mysterious, powerful, and sophisticated member of the Inner Party whom Winston believes is also a member of the Brotherhood, the legendary group of anti-Party rebels.
Winston makes eye contact with this man during one of the 2 minutes hates

8. The Parsons Ideal family with children!
-9 year old boy, 7 year old girl
(they control the house)
Tom- works at ministry of truth, he is the “Perfect” Party member
Dull wife

9. Goldstein
According to the Party, Goldstein is the legendary leader of the Brotherhood.
He seems to have been a Party leader who fell out of favor with the regime.
The Party describes him as the most dangerous and treacherous man in Oceania.
Used him as a prime example during the gathering of 2 minute hate

10. Tillotston A small, precise looking, dark chinned man
Worked in the cubicle across from Winston
Winston couldn’t trust him

11. The Dark Haired Girl (Julia)
Bold looking girl, 27 years old
Dark hair and freckles
Winston dislikes her at first just because she is a woman and he doesn’t like women

12. Syme Works at the Ministry of Truth in Newspeak
Is working on writing a the 11 edition of a dictionary
Winston believes Syme is too intelligent to stay In the Party’s favor so he will end up disappearing someday soon.

13. Ogilvy A character that Winston made up in his head
Age 3, refused all toys except a drum, a sub machine gun and a model helicopter
Age 6, joined spies
Age 9, troop leader
Age 11, turned his uncle in to thoughtpolice
Age 17, organizer of the junior anti sex league
Age 19, designed hand grenade
Age 23, died in action
(IDEAL SOLIDER)

14. Nick Hartley Blake Gavette Daniel Kleber
Role of Government
Nick Hartley
Blake Gavette
Daniel Kleber

15. The Different Ministries
Ministry of Love- law and order
Ministry of Plenty- economic affairs
Ministry of Truth- news, education, entertainment, and fine arts
Ministry of Peace- war

16. Thought Police Watched through telescreens.
Anti-party thoughts were punishable by forced labor or death (vaporized).
Used to control the people by use of constant fear.

17. Control
Propaganda- 2 minutes of hate, “Big Brother is Watching” posters, what the government plays on the telescreens.
Fear- fear of vaporization by Thought Police, constantly being watched by telescreens and government in general, anyone could be a spy.
Classes- inner, outer, prole. They usually controlled by class structure.
Indoctrination of the Youth- government teaches youth that the party is the most important thing. Kids will report adults and parents are scared of the children.

18. Reading Project Pages 29-35
By: Jacob, Kelly, Chase

19. Pages 29-31
Winton dreams of his mother, and his dreams are very vivid to him. He sees his mother holding his sister while they are both deep below him in some “subterranean place.” he compares this place to a well or a deep grave.
Then he realizes that they are in the saloon of a sinking ship. He says his mother and sister were down there BECAUSE he was up there
-His mother dies 30 years ago
-The Golden Country
“rabbit bitten pasture”
-dark haired girl
-one swing of the arm

20. Page 32
The page starts off with Winston participating in the Physical Jerk he does every morning.
The Physical Jerk is like the morning exercises that the people do when they wake up.
Then, Winston tries to remember his childhood. “he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his childhood. It was extraordinarily difficult”(Orwell,32).
He describes how all of the records that were kept are now gone and, how anything beyond the fifties was faded and lost.
He then recalls how Airstrip One had been called London but, he still can’t be a hundred percent sure. He also recalls when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Colchester. He remembered his family fleeing down a flight of stairs into a bunker.

21. Page 33
He recalls with pretty good details in his memory of being in the bunker. The people he saw, the way they looked. Whatever was happening he remembered it very well.
Winston states that after the time in the bunker everything was continuous war.

22. Page 34
Winston makes a point that nobody knows exactly what the date is, they don’t even know if it is Winston talks about how Oceania used to be at war with Eastasisa four years ago and allied with Eurasia but it was never admitted that it switched. It changed to war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia. Since the government says they are at war with Eurasia it means that they have always been at war with Eurasia, the previous alliance never existed to the people of Oceania. The lies the government says becomes the truth. The government controls the past and the future.

23. Page 35
Winston talks about doublethink. He describes it as contradicting ideas but believing both. He says you must be conscious of complete truth while carefully telling lies while believing both. To understand doublethink you must use doublethink. This page also talks about Winston’s health. During the exercises he says how it usually ends in a coughing fit and shoots sharp pains up his legs. His health isn’t very great. Then he thinks about how it’s impossible to prove what happened in the past when the only proof existing is your own memory.

24. Group Summary Pgs
Tyler Bowers, Tyler Winklejohn, and Patti Schnepp

25. Summary Pgs
Pg. 36
Winston talks about the good days when people rode in glass carriages and the people where treated good before big brother came along.
Pg. 37
Winston talks about memory holes and how he always is forced to shove people’s dreams of thought of the government down these holes to be burnt.
Pg. 38
He further talks about how the government watches him through the TV screen and he further throws these memories down the memory holes.

26. Pgs
After he had rewritten the messages he put the completed into the pneumatic tub and the original messages into the memory hole to be devoured by flames. When the corrected messages were put into the pneumatic tube the original ones were also destroyed and the revised ones were put in its place.
Winston's job- He has to alter or rectify the messages that were given to him; such as articles or abbreviated jargon.
Rectify: to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct.
“It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brothers speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened” (Orwell 38). So this way every prediction made could be shown to be correct.
Newspapers, books, periodicals ect.

27. “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” (Orwell 40)
History was written as Big Brother thought
All past / present information was predicted after events had already happened to be sure predictions were correct
Pgs
There was no diversity in careers
“above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs” (Orwell 42).
manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped or washed off and which can be used again

28. Cassidy Boothby Kaitlin Moran Dakota Dawson
Pages 43-49
Cassidy Boothby
Kaitlin Moran
Dakota Dawson

29. Pg 43 Records Dept. (Ministry of Truth)
Responsible for reconstructing the past and to supply the citizens with information
Such as newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programs, plays, novels
Winston’s greatest pleasure in life was his work
What else does he have to enjoy?

30. Pg 44 Big Brother’s Order of the Day Praised the FFCC
Supplied cigarettes and other comforts to the sailors in the Floating Fortresses
Comrade Withers, Inner Party member, was awarded the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class
FFCC had been dissolved months later for no given reason

31. Pg 45
Comrade Tillotson
Possibly working on the same project as Winston
Inner Party member would select the best version between them.
Suspicious with his work
Gets very close to his speakwrite
Withers was perhaps vaporized, however not for treason. More likely for his popularity.
“necessary part of the mechanics of government”

32. Pg 46-47
Comrade Ogilvy
Completely fake character that Winston created in order to commemorate in BB’s Order for the Day
Ideal soldier: army toys, Spies, turned in his uncle to the Thought Police, organizer of Junior Anti-Sex League, designed a hand grenade
The traits that Winston gives Ogilvy make him seem robotic
“You could create dead men, but not living ones.”

33. Pg 48 Lunch Time Syme Famine of razor blades
Low ceilinged, deep underground, deafening, sour metallic smell
Syme
Research Dept. – philologist
“Pleasant comrade”
Working on compiling 11th edition of NewSpeak dictionary
Tiny creature, dark hair, large protuberant eyes
Famine of razor blades
Winston has 2 unused blades that he is hoarding
Cautious, careful, well-prepared

34. Pg 49
Hangings
Winston feels scrutinized by Syme because he didn’t attend the event.
Syme is also very inhumane – He finds pleasure when the victims struggle and their face turns blue
Syme is very orthodox in that he constantly talks about:
Helicopter raids, thought-criminals, executions

35. Brandon Scott Lindsay Zimmerman Valeria Villegas
Pages 50-56
Brandon Scott
Lindsay Zimmerman
Valeria Villegas

36. Pg. 50 Winston and Syme start talking about the Newspeak dictionary
Syme tells Winston he’s working on the adjectives
The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition
He says that when they’re finished with it, people will have to learn it all over again

37. Pg. 51
They’re destroying words and cutting the language down to the bone
The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050
Ex.) The word good
Ungood = bad
Plusgood = better
Doubleplusgood = best

38. Pg. 52
The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought and will make thoughtcrime nearly impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it
Vocabulary gets smaller every year
Every concept will be expressed by exactly one word
“Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak”

39. Pg. 53 Literature of the past will be destroyed
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Bryon--- will only exist in Newspeak versions, not changed into something different, but changed into something contradictory of what they used to be
Winston thought Syme will be vaporized because he is too intelligent and he sees too clearly and speaks too plainly

40. Pg. 54
Syme talks about a new word called duckspeak, to quack like a duck
It has two contradictory meanings… applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise

41. Pg. 55
Winston talks about Syme’s fate and how he believes Syme will eventually be vaporized
He describes Parsons, a fellow tenant at Victory Mansions

42. Pg. 56
Winston and Parsons are talking about how Syme is working way too hard on the Newspeak dictionary
Parsons is the treasurer of his block for Hate Week. He asks Winston for two dollars
Parsons starts talking about his kids and how they were upset about not being able to go to the hanging

43. Of 1984 By Logan Davis and Andrew Wysong
Roles and relations
Of 1984
By Logan Davis and Andrew Wysong

44. Children
Children are used as junior spies, The Junior Spies is an organization of children who monitor adults for disloyalty to the Party. They are used because children are everywhere and are unsuspecting and observant.
They seem to hold more control over the parents which is backwards to todays norms.

45. Adults
Most relationships are viewed as wrong and against the party. They are forbidden to “love” one another at any point in time.
Most married couples are separated.
Adults are meant to work and be loyal and nothing else.

46. Inner party Black overalls mean Inner Party member
Higher members of society
They are the Brains of the society, or the manipulators.
They represent big brother.

47. Outer party Blue overalls mean Outer Party member
Middle class citizens
They are the hands of big brother, the work force
they are always monitored.

48. Proles regular dress signifies Prole Lowest class of citizens
The “government” doesn't really care about them. They are unimportant.

49. Dalton Reimschisel, Shacole Hayes, Madison Lewis Period 1
Living Conditions… of 1984
Dalton Reimschisel, Shacole Hayes, Madison Lewis
Period 1

50. Living Conditions
The living conditions in the year of 1984, were very dreadful, for some people like Winston Smith.
Many people live with Telescreens, that watch your every move. There are also Thought Police, they are responsible for vaporizing people, or sending the to 25 years of Labor Camps, however there are no laws.
Living conditions are bland, people mainly wake up, go to work, and come home, but in the middle of that, all of the civilians are expected to go to hate sessions, every day, for two minutes.

51. Big Brother
Big Brother is everywhere, in the streets, living accommodations, and on the telescreens, in which are in every public building as well.
Winston Smith however, was to go against this, therefore he starts his own diary, and hides away in a corner, where Big Brother cannot really see him.
“With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover” (Orwell 29).
Winston does this so he knows if anyone touches his diary.
“Big Brother is watching you”(Orwell 2).

52. “Luxuries” Victory Cigarettes Victory Gin
Those were some of the luxury things, people could own.
“He took a cigarettte from a crumpled packet…whereupon the tovacco fell out onto the floor,” (Orwell 5).
“the stuff was like nitric acid…had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club,” (Orwell 5).