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1984 quiz pages 282-298
What is in the compartment attached to the mask?
Do it to __________he repeats, when O’Brien puts the mask on Winston. At the novel’s conclusion, who is Oceana at war with?
When he sees Julia in the park is it a cold March day or a warm March day?
In the end, who does Winston love?
Discussion questions:
What are we to make of Winston’s concern and fear about the battle in Africa? (That he is entirely
brainwashed—as he earlier had concrete evidence that the reports of the war are often falsified.)
Is this a credible story—could such a cruel, all-powerful government take root in the world today? (Yes
—Nazi Germany came close. Stalinist Russia did as well. North Korea, Iran, the list goes on.)
So, can they get inside of a person’s head? Julia and Winston had earlier agreed that that was one thing
the party could not do. (Evidently, Yes.)
What do we think he means when Winston says he loves Big Brother? (Just that—that he has somehow
come to believe in the propaganda he himself helped create and through torture, has come to love his
torturers.)
Is Orwell correct about human nature? Are we, at our cores, interested in exercising power and status
over others? Does everything we do—the way we construct our appearance, the jobs we get, the
colleges we attend, the people we marry, the activities we engage in—have status and power at its
root? (Open to debate.)
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Note to instructor: the following two documents are variations of in-class writing activities. They are
to be projected for the class. You may have them write for whatever period of time you find
appropriate. I generally follow the in-class writing with a discussion of what they have written.
1984 Quick Write 152 to 165 (Overhead—allow 10-25 minutes writing time, then discuss)
Pages 152-165 are from chapter 3 of The Book . What ideas are
interesting or insightful about Goldstein’s military analysis? What,
from Goldstein’s analysis of Orwell’s fictional world, might be useful in
understanding the real, modern world? Offer some examples.
Here are some questions to consider:
 How, historically, has war, according to The Book , kept societies sane?
 How is war the same as absolute peace?
 What is the purpose of war in 1984 ?
 How does “being at war, and therefore in danger, make the handing-
over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable
condition of survival” (158)?
Here are some quotations to consider:
“But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labor.
Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the
middle east, or southern India, or the Indonesian archipelago, disposes
also of the bodies of scores of hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard –
working coolies” (154).
“And at the same time the consequences of being at war, and therefore in
danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the
natural, unavoidable condition of survival” (158).