Please respond to the following prompts in complete sentences. Use quotes when stipulated.
1. How is Winston preparing for Hate Week at work?
2. Who vanishes? Is this a surprise? Use a quote as support.
3. Compare Julia's interests with Mersault's. How are they similar? What do they both value?
4. What does Julia want to do during the Two Minutes of Hate?
5. What does O'Brien think is ingenious about the new Newspeak dictionary? What do you think about this development? Would it help make language acquisition easier?
6. What does Winston believe the proles have retained, but Party members have lost? Use a quote as support.
7. In Winston’s mind, what would prove he had betrayed Julia?
8. What privilege is reserved for Party members? In Communism, did inner party members have special benefits as well? Look into it if need be, and give a specific example.
9. Why will the Brotherhood never be destroyed? Do you think it is enough to keep it intact? Why or why not?
1. Winston is preparing for Hate Week by spending time to go through the back files of the Times and embellishing news that could be used in the speeches.
ReplyDelete2. Syme vanishes from the society. This is not much of a surprise because Winston expected Syme to disappear, because he was too smart and he knew too much about what was going on. “One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee, of whom Syme had been one. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before- nothing had been crossed out- but it was one name shorter” (Orwell 122).
3. Julia’s interest is about herself, meaning “ours”. Julia does not have interest in doctrines. This is similar to Meursault because, he is apathetic, and he doesn’t care about morals and beliefs in religions. They both value pacifism in a way, because they don’t really care about what’s happening around them. Even though, nobody is indifferent as Meursault.
4. During the Two Minutes of Hate, Julia wants to shout insults at Goldstein, even though she doesn’t know exactly who Goldstein is.
5. O’Brien thinks that the reduction in the number of verbs is ingenious about the new Newspeak dictionary. In generally speaking, I think this is a good thing (for me), because we don’t have to deal with variety of words. Therefore we can understand what they are saying for most of the time. It would make the language acquisition easier because people do not have to learn all sorts of vocabulary.
6. Winston believe that the proles have retained staying as a human. They always kept their emotion, unlike the Party, who are stealing away feelings instead. “They had not become hardened inside. They had held onto the primitive emotions which he himself had to relearn by conscious effort” (Orwell 136).
7. In Winston’s mind, stop loving Julia was something he proved as a betrayal to Julia. This is because Winston thinks that only feelings do matter, and not what they speak or do.
8. Privileges reserved for the Party members was having high quality products than the usual people. An example in the context is wine. Winston and Julia never heard of wine, and O’Brien says that it doesn’t spread out of the Party. Inner party in communism did not have as much privilege as they had, because their slogan was everyone to be equal, and have no difference between the rich and poor.
9. Brotherhood will never be destroyed because it is not an organization, but an idea which holds the group together. And people don’t know the members of the Brotherhood, so people don’t know the end of it. I think this is not enough to keep it intact because since technology is developing all the time, we don’t know when new inventions supporting the enemies will be created. And it is really hard to hide away from people as well.
Winston prepares for the Hate Week by doing his normal work and also other work. He alters/changes things from the Times which would be said in speeches.
ReplyDeleteSyme is the one who vanishes. This is not a surprise because Winston predicted Symes vaporization previously in the novel because he was too smart. “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent” (47).
Julia’s interests in life are similar to Mersault’s because she does not care about anything unrelated to herself or her life. They both value themselves.
Julia wants to laugh during the Two Minutes of Hate.
O’Brien thinks that the new Newspeak dictionary is ingenious because it has cut a lot of verbs. I’m interested in hearing how the people would communicate without using verbs. I’m thinking it would sound really scary and funny at the same time. I think it would make language acquisition easier because there would be less words to remember, but wouldn’t it be harder to communicate?
Winston believes that proles have retained the ability to remain human while Party members are no longer human. “The proles had stayed human” (136).
Winston thinks that if he stops loving Julia because of the Party, he has betrayed her. This is probably because it would mean that they have messed with his inner thoughts and opinions and changed him into something he is not.
Inner Party members in the novel are allowed to have a little amount of privacy and are allowed to switch the telescreen off. Also, they had a far more luxurious life. During the Mao era in China, there were privileged Communist elites. They had access to special restaurants, hospitals,vacation homes, and stores. They had the highest paying jobs, first choices on new goods etc. They seem to be very similar to the Inner Party members.
Brotherhood would never be destroyed because even it’s members don’t know much about it. The only thing that all of the members have in common is an idea. Therefore, if they are caught and tortured, they cannot confess much because they do not know a lot. I don’t think that it is enough to keep it intact because our minds grow restless without reassurances. I don’t think the Brotherhood can be successful because people can’t feel united against something if they do not know anything.
1. Winston changes some words in the speech, which is going to be read during the ceremony during the Hate Week. He included a part that says Oceania is not in a war against Eurasia.
ReplyDelete2. Syme is vaporized. This is not a surprise because Winston says, “Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent” (47) long before Syme vanishes.
3. Julia and Mersault are both interested in their own life but nothing more. They only focus on things that matter to them. If things have nothing to do with them, they don’t bother to think about it.
4. Julia wants to bust out laughing. She thinks it is rediculous to do such thing, because it’s poitless.
5. What do you think about this development? Would it help make language acquisition easier? O’Brien thinks Newspeak dictionary is ingenious because there are not many verbs. I can’t imagien a conversation without having variety of verbs. I think it will be really weird. But I guess it would be a problem for me because I love to talk. If there were small amount of verbs, it will restrict me from expressing my own actions anf feelings.
6. Proles are “loyal to one another” (136). That keeps them as humans not like the Party members who are only loyal to the government. Proles have “individual relationships”(136), which for Winston is the only thing that matters.
7. Stop loveing her is a betrayal. No love means the end of rebelling and being a human.
8. Inner Party members have more privacy and luxury. They can turn off the telescreen. North Korea is a good example. The elites are fat because they eat good food and are wearing good clothes, while common people are starving.
9. Brotherhood will never be destroyed because it’s a group that does exist but doesn’t exist at the same time. People know about them and hear about who they are, but it’s almost unsubstantial since members do not gather to have meetings.
Winston spent time going through back files of the Times and altering and embellishing news items which were †o be quoted in speeches.
ReplyDeleteSyme vanishes, but it is not a surprise since Winston foreshadowed that he will in Part 1, saying “One day he will disappear. It is written in his face” (Orwell 47).
Julia and Mersault are similar because they don’t show interest in philosophy or society; they are only interested on their own life and what they do.
Julia wants to burst out laughing.
O’brien thinks that the reduction of verbs are ingenious. I highly disagree, if verbs are cut shorter how would we be able to express our actions precisely? Communication would be extremely harder, and stories would become less exciting.
Proles “possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because that the standards they obeyed were were private ones”(Orwell 136). They were able to be loyal to one another and their feelings, which party members have lost.
Winston says “If they could make me stop loving you- that would be the real betrayal”(137), because that keeps him human.
Inner party has the access to wine, coffee, tea, and chocolate, and they can even turn off their telescreen. In East Germany, there was a housing zone called Waldsiedlung where the elites of the Party lived. The site had a club house with a cinema and a restaurant, a shop where a limited selection of luxury Western goods could be purchased with local currency, a market garden, a health centre, a shooting range, a swimming pool, a sports field and tennis courts. In Communism, there always that top few percent of the social hierarchy that lives a luxurious life when the majority is poor.
Brotherhood can not be destroyed because the identical thought only bonds the members together, and they don’t know who they are. Even if a member gets caught, they won’t be able to confess much since they are not told much, and it would be impossible for them to track the members down. I believe that is not enough, since the members are hard to feel the uniformity because they don’t get to meet and communicate with other members, and they won’t be able to rebel or do anything productive.
Winston is busily preparing for the Hate Week by doing his usual work, going through the old Times and arranges appropriate articles for the speeches.
ReplyDeleteUnsurprisingly, Syme disappears, just as Winston has expected earlier. Syme “is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people... It is written in his face” (Orwell 137).
The similarity between Julia and Meursault is their lack of curiosity for everyone other than themselves, they do not show much interest for anything unless it is about them.
Since the Two Minute Hate is absolutely irrelevant to Julia, she wishes to burst out laughing.
O’Brien believes that the New Revised version of the Newspeak dictionary is indigenous because of the way it cut down the amount of the verbs. If there is no verbs in this world, communication between individuals will not last, I mean I’d rather not talk at all. But maybe it is better than deleting adjectives and nouns, but that is just my opinion.
Based on the reading, proles obviously have more freedom, while people like Winston are more under controlled. Freedom moves humans, so proles are more in a human like form compared to the Party Members, since they are controlled around like robots.
Winston believes that loving her will be the biggest betrayal towards Julia, probably because their love affair itself is a rebellious thing to do.
Basically what the inner Party members get that the proles don’t are the luxury,and they usually get higher quality products compared to the proles, which isn’t really the case for this book but usually they are more separated, to a more personal life. In real life people did have special benefits, better food, better things for living, while a lot of people like the proles don’t have that benefit.
9. The Brotherhood will never be destroyed because it does not have the power to be destroyed since little is known about them, and they don’t know either. I think the brotherhood doesn’t have much interactions with the outside world either, which shows that they don’t care much about what others thing. That keeps them going.
1. He does his usual work; he changes the articles in Times, ameliorates and beautify it so that they can be used in the speech during the Hate Week.
ReplyDelete2. Syme vanishes which is not a surprise because Winston has predicted it before; he was too intelligent. "It looked almost exactly as it had looked before- nothing had been crossed out- but it was one name shorter” (122).
3. Both Julia and Mersault are quite self-cenetered and values themselves mostly. They have no interest in what is not directly affecting them or their lives.
4. Julia tries to hold her laugh during the Two Minutes Hate.
5. O'Brien thinks that the NewSpeak dictionary is ingenious in the way that it cut off a great number of verbs. I think this development might easier the learning of the language but it will at the same time, lose the beauty of the language. I also think it will be harder to communicate accurately.
6. Proles were able to hold “a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because that the standards they obeyed were were private ones”(Orwell 136). Those basic emotions, such as loyalty to one another, were something that kept the proles humane, which the party members lost.
7. Confession would not be a betrayal but when he would stop loving her, would be the real betrayal.
8. The Inner Party had access to higher quality supplies. Other than these materialistic privileges, they had more privacy; they could switch off the telescreen for a short time. This privacy can be related to the actual Communism, for example, in Germany. The Inner Party had more privileges in their wrong doings.
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1. Winston prepares for the Hate Week by doing his usual work, and additionally changing the text of the Times, so it would be more presentable in the speech. Basically he is hiding the truth from the people for the Party.
ReplyDelete2. Syme vanished, yet no one was surprised, even forgot about the matter after a day or two. Winston believed Syme to be very intelligent, and indeed he was, " One day he will disappear, it is written in his face" ( Orwell 47).
3. Meursault and Julia are similar for there indifference towards their surrounding and things , feelings for example that can be seen. They caer and value themselves than anything that doesn't have anything to do with them .
4.Although a Party member, Julia sees no point in the Two Minute Hate, it is simply ridiculous that she wants to burst out laughing.
5. The Newspeak Dictionary is Ingenious because it cuts out a lot of verbs. I do not approve in this development. It would not make English and easier not to mention any sense. Things would get confusing. How are we to show our movement through words if not verb existed?
6. The Proles have kept their humanity and freedom, yet the party member have none of the two. " they were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and seal desire, married at twenty, middle-aged at thirty, they died for the most part at sixty" Although the life of the proles are no better than the Party, at least they are no being spied on 24/7 they get to be themselves, be human beings,
7. He feels that if he stopped loving Julia it would be a betrayal because aside from the physical attractions they have for each other, Their acquaintances with each other is more than that. It's about taking action to revolt.
8. The inner Party members did get better privileges. You can see this when Julia meet of Winston showing him the things that she had taken such a bread and jam, actual tea, and coffee which all belonged in the inner party.
9.The Brotherhood can not be destroyed, since rather than a group its more of an ideal thought the members share. Aside from this common thoughts,they do not know anything about the group. And this is also the reason why I feel the Brotherhood will not be successful.
Winston prepares for Hate Week by continuing with his usual work, altering documents and making corrections for the Party so that the officials can make references and quote on those “fake” documents in the speeches during Hate Week.
ReplyDeleteSyme vanishes one day and becomes an unperson just like how Winston predicted would happen one day. He saw that Syme was “too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly” (53).
Julia and Winston are both secretly against the government and have unorthodox beliefs. They both love corrupted minds and rebellious hearts, and value freedom and privacy.
During the Two minutes hate, Julia just wants to burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation. She is quite apathetic about the teachings of the government and doesn’t really care unless “they in some way touched upon her own life” (153)
5.O’Brien thinks that the reduction of verbs in the Newspeak Dictionary is quite ingenious. I however, think that it is not. Language is beautiful because it is built out of so many different words and have so many varieties. Although, it will perhaps make language acquisition easier, by cutting off so many verbs, people will eventually loose creativity (although this is what the government in 1984 wants) and language itself will loose its magnificence. I think this is kind of similar to how China abandoned the traditional Chinese letters and simplified all the characters after Mao Ze Dong. Although writing became faster and easier, I think the characters lost its original beauty and balance.
Winston believes that the proles have retained being human and had “not become hardened inside”(98), unlike the Party members who have lost their primitive emotions and had to be “re-learn by conscious effort” (98).
Winston believes that real betrayal isn’t about the actions.What truly matters isn’t “what you say or do: only feelings matter” (97) Therefore he thinks that a real betrayal would be that the government separates him and Julia and forces him to stop loving her.
The inner Party members have several privileges, including leading a much more luxurious lifestyles, with servants, and eating food that are forbidden to other members of the society such as real coffee, chocolate, tea, wine and etc. They are also allowed some privacy by turning off their telescreen once in a while. I believe in real life, the inner party members in communism also have hidden benefits such as eating better food and leading a more pleasant life. You can tell this by looking at North Korea’s leaders whom a lot are quite obese.
9. Brotherhood can never be destroyed because it’s the inner workings of the mind that has broken free from the tight grasp of the government. Even if they attempt to destroy any physical evidence of it, it can always be reproduced because the mind lives on. I think as long as the knowledge is passed on to various people, it is enough to keep the Brotherhood intact.
Winston alters some things in the Times, regarding the speech.
ReplyDeleteWinston begins to notice that Syme is not around. Eventually his name is not on a sheet that it was previously on because he ceased to exist. "One of these days...Syme will be vaporized". This thought occurred to Winston much earlierin the novel.
Both Julia and Mersault value small pleasures and disregard big ideas.
Julia wants to laugh during the two minutes hate.
O' Brien agrees with the deletion of verbs from the Newspeak dictionary. This is silly, in my opinion, because if you want to not use verbs, then don't use them, but don't ruin it for everyone else.
Proles have kept their human instincts of relationships. He believes the proles have "not become hardened inside".
Allowing his love for her to face, or if not fade, to be scared out of him. This would be betrayal because they are in the rebellion together and they must work with one another.
Inner party members are welcome to luxuries such as privacy and foods. If we look at mansions built for leaders of communism in China, we can see this excess luxury.
The brotherhood cannot be destroyed because it is not tangible. It is an idea that spreads through people. No amount of party enforcement can stop the simple flow of an idea.