1984 BOOK II Study Questions

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.
The inner party can turn off their tvs, they have servants and get good food. They get more of a house than an apartment
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
He asks them a series of extreme questions to make sure they are serious and willing to do anything for the cause.
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
It exhists but no one knows where Goldstein is, and you will never know how many people are with in it. Basically you will gain no ground in destroying big brother either.
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
In a suitcase. Winston is to not carry his suit case one day and when a person hands a suit case to him saying I believe you dropped your suitcase you are supposed to take it and it will have the book in it.


Book Two, Chapter 9

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984?
To reinforce and show how corrupt big brothers world is.
2. What three classes of people have always existed?
Upper, Middle, and lower
3. In What ways have these three classes changed?
The idea for each class has not really hanged over the years but the names have. For example in big brothers world the lower class is now called the proles.
4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984? War is a way of keeping control of the people.
5. What are the two aims of the Party?
To conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought are the two aims of the party.
6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned?
Conquering and taking the little bits of land that are not really owned by and of the three super states and completely controlling the people are the two problems
7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners?
Cause they don’t want them finding out that what they say about those people are lies and that they are actually very similar to themselves.
8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist?
The three superstates have to stay similar to each other in order to prevent either of them from being at an advantage or a disadvantage, which would allow the pointless war waged by the other states to take them over. Some similaries included the utter control of the people, the break up of power classes, the conditions of life and the fact that all the superstate can be self-contained because of their natural resources
9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace."
The real war is keeping the people under control. Since all of the superstates are evenly matched and they know it, none are expecting to really win but by keeping continues war they can control the people be enslaving them basically with making war goods.
10. What are the aims of the three groups?
High- stay where they are
Middle- change places with the high
Low- abolish all distiction and have everyone be treated equal

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century?
The middle class no longer made revolutions under the banner of equality only to set up a new tyranny after the old one was over thrown, now the middle groups in effect proclaim their tyranny before hand. They no longer looked for freedom but inequality.
12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century?
From about the 1900 century onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned
13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants?
Their tactics at maintaining power was to brainwash the people, kept them underconsyant survalliance and make them afraid to rebel.

14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power?
1.) it is conquered from without
2.) it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt
3.) it allows a strong and discontented Middle Group to come into being.
4.) It loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power?
They get everyone to believe in Big Brother, they prvent over production, take away the past so there is nothing for the people to compare themselves too and they ration things amongst everyone at a bare minimum rate.

16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world?
By examination taken at the age of 16.

17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class?
It’s the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. It allows them to erase history in order to keep control of the people.

18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?
It is the idea of doublethink and so it controls the people. The party members are in control because they tell the people what really happened in history, and make it whatever they want so long as it actually happened. It makes them always look right and gives the lower class nothing to compare their lives with.