1984: WAR DAY TWO

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1984 WAR!!! (DAY TWO)

• Feraco
• Myth to Science Fiction
• 23 April 2009

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• 1. What can OBrien do with his telescreen that
  Winston or any Outer Part member cannot?

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• 2. Why does Winston think to himself that no
  emotion is pure at the end of the second chapter?

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• 3. What is Winston willing to do for the
  Brotherhood? What does Julia refuse to do, and
  how does Winston respond?

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• 4. What is the terrible dream/memory that Winston
  has of his family? What was his family like?

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• 5. What three groups of people have always
  existed in any society? What are their goals, and
  why are they irreconcilable?

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• 6. How does Winston react before reading Julias
  message? What does he do with it after he reads
  it?

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• 7. Why would the spoils from advanced technology
  and industrialization progress! threaten
  hierarchical society, even in one where power
  remained in the hands of relatively few?

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• 8. Ultimately, how is the Partys slogan War is
  Peace accurate?

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• 9. Explain crimestop and blackwhite.

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• 10. What does Orwell call the secret of ruling?

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• 11. Whats Julias theory regarding the Partys
  sexual Puritanism?

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• 12. Why were the old tyrannical regimes
  inefficient?

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• 13. Why does Julia believe one should always
  yell with the crowd?

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• 14. What is the purpose of the war?

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• 15. Why wont the war ever end?

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• 16. Describe the scene where OBrien contacts
  Winston.

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• 17. Which people are most rational about war, and
  why?

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• 18. Why does Winston see the proles as human
  beings?

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• 19. Describe the astonishing event that occurs at
  the end of Hate Week, as well as its consequences
  for Winston.

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• 20. What is doublethink?

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• 21. How did Ingsoc become both like and unlike
  Socialism?

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• 22. What were the atomic wars of the 1950s like?
  What was their main consequence?

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• 23. Which great fear of Winstons is revealed in
  Chapter IV?

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• 24. Winston is startled by one of the places he
  sees after meeting with Julia. Whats noteworthy
  about it?

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• 25. Why does Winston say We are the dead at the
  end of Chapter III? Why does Julia disagree?

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• 26. What are the two aims of the Party, and what
  are the two problems it perennially faces?

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• 27. How does Julias message change Winstons
  thoughts and actions?

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• 28. Why can the proles be granted intellectual
  liberty while even a party members smallest
  deviation from orthodox thought will be crushed?

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• 29. Who has vanished at the beginning of
  Chapter 5 i.e., been vaporized? Whats the
  prevailing reaction to the disappearance?

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• 30. What does Winston wish he had done after
  showing Katharine the flowers? Why is/isnt he
  sorry about his actions?

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• 31. How can one continue producing goods without
  adding to a societys wealth?

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• 32. What is the essence of oligarchical rule
  Orwell names at the bottom of page 209, and how
  does this differ from more traditional
  assumptions regarding how power is transmitted?

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• 33. What are the four ways that ruling groups can
  fall from power and what is the single most
  important factor that determines whether they
  stay in power? Which of those dangers no longer
  exist and which is the only one that remains
  necessary to check?

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• 34. Why does Orwell state that while wars could
  be won or lost, no ruling class could be
  completely irresponsible? Why does he state that
  in the present day, warfare has become a purely
  internal affair and why is it simultaneously
  unreal and meaningful?

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• 35. How is the mutability of the past related to
  double-think?

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• 36. What happens to Winston and Julia at the end
  of Part Two? Who betrays them?