Book Two, Chapter 3
How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
-The church, in the streets. They made secret meetings like in the market, talking under their breath and plan where to meet later.
What is Julia’s job?
- She works in the fiction department on the novel-writing machines
What is her background?
- She is 26, lives in a hostel with 30 other girls, she doesn’t rememeber revolution and the only one she ever talked to about those days with her was her grandfather who disappeared, captain of the hockey, wone the gymnastics trophy twice, troop leader in the spies, branch seceratary in the youth league, and now has joined the Junior anti-sex League. Had a love affair when she was 16 with a 60 year old.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
- She hates the party
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
-Her sexuality is all that is important to her. It gives her freedom and a way to rebel against big brother.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
- It connects people, it creates an instinct and a world the party can’t control
Book Two, Chapter 4
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
- He thinks it’s and she is beautiful. He listens to her singing and he decides that only when people are down and out will they sing about anything (The Blues)
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
- Smelling the delicious coffee and perfume, looking pretty while the room is nasty, tasting the real sugar in coffee, Hearing the beautiful singing. They don’t really get to experience all these senses unless they are hidden away. Only in Winston and Julia’s paridise do they get to experience them.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
- Winston is scared of rats, t reminds Winston of the nightmare that has occurred through out his life. while Julia isn’t bothered by them. She sees them everyday.
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
It is a connection to the time before the revolution when they rang.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
It’s a symbol of their relationship and that they are in their own little bubble
Chapter 5
Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
- Syme has and he knows this because his name is no longer on the list of the chess committee.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
- Everyone works over time, there are processions, meetings, military paraes, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs are organized, stands erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, and photographs faked. They hang up a lot of posters of Eurasian army men.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
- Julia just doesn’t care about the past, every time Winston tries to talk her about past events she falls asleep on him. They have a huge age difference. Their ideas about rebelling are different, Julia only lives in the moment.
Connect chapters 3-5 to two different themes and explain them
- Meaning of freedom: Them still meeting, stealing and eating good food, Julia wearing make up, the prole singing, the idea of the glass paper weight
- The responsibility of the individual in Society: Preparing for hate week and working over time. Winstons job of destroying files and altering the past. What Syme first disappeared someone questioned about it but than the next day never spoke of him again because he is supposed to have never existed. Just to blend in.
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