How does W decide to fulfill his assignment in regard to BB’s speech? He creates Comrade Ogilvy to take the place of a vaporized person. Read p. 42 Exists just like Caesar!
Q. Why does Winston have to change the speech about the FFCC and withers?
Q. Why does Winston have to change Big Brother’s speech about the FFCC and Withers? They have to go back and say they didn’t exist.
Table of Contents
- Q. Why does Winston have to change the speech about the FFCC and withers?
- Q. Why is it necessary for Winston to rewrite a paragraph of BB’s speech?
- Q. Why do you think the official phrase for Winston’s task is rectify?
- Q. Who does Winston Notice is sitting near him during lunch?
- Q. Why did Winston hate rats?
- Q. What was Winston afraid of?
- Q. What was Julia’s fear in 1984?
- Q. What does the rat symbolize in 1984?
- Q. Why does Winston fear rats more than anything else?
- Q. Does Winston actually love Big Brother?
- Q. How did Winston keep the rats away from his face?
- Q. What would be the worst thing in the world for Winston?
- Q. What does Winston see in the mirror?
- Q. What two events give Winston a feeling of fear and foreboding?
- Q. What is one thing Julia and Winston Cannot do?
- Q. What does Winston realize about secrets?
- Q. Who is the alleged traitor whose face is shown to start the 2 minute hate?
- Q. Who is the principle traitor?
- Q. Why is Goldstein hated?
Q. Why is it necessary for Winston to rewrite a paragraph of BB’s speech?
As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech, in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened.
Q. Why do you think the official phrase for Winston’s task is rectify?
Winston works for the Records Department, which is a department of the Ministry of Truth. His job is to rectify records so that they match what the government wants them to say.
Q. Who does Winston Notice is sitting near him during lunch?
Julia
Q. Why did Winston hate rats?
The rat is the fellow-traveller of death, destitution and figuratively, betrayal. Winston’s fear of rats is in essence a psychopathological fear of what he takes to be the greatest evil – self-betrayal, betrayal of others (“Do it to Julia!”), ratting or being a rat in general (especially a greedy one).
Q. What was Winston afraid of?
Winston fears rats. He then revealed that he feared rats more than anything else in the world. This same fear is what O’Brien eventually used to get Winston to betray his love for Julia.
Q. What was Julia’s fear in 1984?
Julia was a sexual animal. She loved sleeping with men. They could have threatened her with altering her beauty, but it is ambiguously described and from the fact that she sleeps with older, less-than handsome men like Winston, I don’t think that was it. Castration would have been terrifying to her.
Q. What does the rat symbolize in 1984?
In 1984, the rats represent Winston’s deepest fears because he is more afraid of them than of anything else. On a deeper level, however, the rats also symbolize the extent of the Party’s control over the people of Oceania.
Q. Why does Winston fear rats more than anything else?
Winston suffered death trauma when he was young. He had committed an offense against his mother and then ran-off. O’Brien also amplified the phobia by having a couple of starving rats held in a basket-like helmet with a way to have the rats move from their end, to where Winston’s face was housed.
Q. Does Winston actually love Big Brother?
In the final moment of the novel, Winston encounters an image of Big Brother and experiences a sense of victory because he now loves Big Brother. Although Winston’s fate is unhappy and the ending of the book may seem pessimistic, the ending also can be read as offering a glimpse of hope.
Q. How did Winston keep the rats away from his face?
In Room 101, O’Brien straps Winston to a chair, then clamps Winston’s head so that he cannot move. With the writhing, starving rats just inches away, Winston cracks. He screams that he wants O’Brien to subject Julia to this torture instead of him.
Q. What would be the worst thing in the world for Winston?
The worst thing in the world to Winston is rats and yet for others it could be “burial alive, or death by fire. . .”, this means that the worst thing in the world is someone’s worst fear.
Q. What does Winston see in the mirror?
What does Winston see when he looks into the mirror? He sees a skinny, grey colored skeleton with no teeth and bald head. At the end of section III, what has Winston NOT done that O’Brien wants him to do? He has not betrayed Julia and admit that he loves the party.
Q. What two events give Winston a feeling of fear and foreboding?
The rat poking his head through the wall foreshadows two separate events, both having to do with the couple’s eventual capture. Winston is terrified of rats, a fact that is his breaking point later in the novel.
Q. What is one thing Julia and Winston Cannot do?
What is the one thing Winston and Julia will not do for the cause? They will not agree to stop seeing each other.
Q. What does Winston realize about secrets?
Winston’s betrayal reveals that he is only human, and that he has a breaking point. Realistically, he didn’t stand a chance against the Party due to the total power they had over him. Even after months of torture, Winston remained strong, and as defiant as he could be.
Q. Who is the alleged traitor whose face is shown to start the 2 minute hate?
Emmanuel Goldstein is introduced as the Enemy of the People during the Two Minutes Hate at the beginning of the novel. He was once an important member of the Party but became a traitor.
Q. Who is the principle traitor?
19. Goldstein is “the principle traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity”.
Q. Why is Goldstein hated?
First of all, Goldstein is presented as physically repulsive. Winston tells us, for instance, that he has a “face like a sheep,” a “silly” nose and an overall air of self-satisfaction. This irritates the people of Oceania and encourages them to hate him.