1984%20Chapter%20Summaries

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1984 Chapter Summaries

• Part 1

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Chapter 1

• Description of London as a bleak and desolate
  place
• Description of the telescreens
• Description of the lack of privacy
• Introduction to Winston Smith, O'Brien and Julia
• Description of Big Brother
• Description of Goldstein and the two minutes hate
• Description of the four Ministries
• Description of the Party and its values
• Introduced to Newspeak
• Description of Thought Police
• There are three super powers

• Winston has an alcove, drinks a lot and has a
  varicose vein in his heel.
• Winston starts a Diary
• Winston hates the anti-sex league girl
• Winston gets a feeling from O'Brien
• Winston hates Big Brother

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Chapter 2

• We meet Mrs Parsons
• The mansions were built in 1930
• Tom Parsons is described
• We meet the Parsons' children
• We read about the spies

• He loves beauty because he doesn't want to smudge
  the ink
• Winston fixes his neighbour's sink
• Winston had a dream seven years ago. He will meet
  them in the place where there is no darkness. The
  voice in his dream is O'Brien's
• He knows he is dead. He has committed
  thoughtcrime
• He addresses his diary to the future
• He puts some white dust on the corner of his diary

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Chapter 3

• Julia is still the dark haired girl from the
  fiction department
• History is indeterminate
• He can barely remember a time without war
• Who controls the past controls the future, who
  controls the future controls the past
• INGSOC was english socialism
• Big Brother lead the revolution in the 30's

• Winston dreams of his mother and sister
• He dreams of the golden country
• He dreams of Julia

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Chapter 4

• Description of Winston's work

• Winston rewrites history
• Winston creates Comrade Ogilvy

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Chapter 5

• Description of the canteen
• We meet Syme
• Newspeak is described in more detail
• We meet a prole
• We meet Parsons
• Everyone wears the same thing

• Winston lies about having a razor blade
• Winston is indifferent to the hanging of
  prisoners
• Syme enjoys it
• Syme will be vaporised
• Winston doesn't like how Syme and Parsons, one
  using doublethink, believe the announcements

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Chapter 6

• Katharine his wife is described
• Your nervous system is your biggest enemy
• Love is something the party have tried to destroy
• The two minutes hate is the replacement of
  human's natural instincts

• Winston writes in his diary about going to a
  prostitute
• He hated Katharine and her empty mind
• He loves love and sex

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Chapter 7

• Winston believes hope lies in the proles
• The proles make up 85 of th population
• The proles are described almost as slaves but
  without rules
• History describes everything as terrible before
  the Party
• Winston appreciates beauty in poetry
• Winston relates the story of Jones, Rutherford
  and Aaronson
• Winston's diary is addressed to O'Brien
• Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 2 4
• O'Brien forces Winston later to stop believing
  the very facts he is thinking here

• Winston writes until they become concious they
  will never rebel, and until they rebel they will
  never become concious
• Winston quotes a history book
• Winston ten years ago threw away proof that the
  three had not committed their crimes
• Winston understands how but not why

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Chapter 8

• The proles living conditions are described
• The lottery is an act of faith by the proles
• Winston isn't brave
• He couldn't kill or commit suicide

• Winston goes for a walk
• Winston almost gets blown up but is saved by a
  prole
• Winston kicks a severed hand into the gutter
• Winston talks to an old man in a pub
• The old man is unable to help Winston
• Winston ends up at the antique shop where he
  bought his diary
• Winston buys a paperweight with coral in it
  because it is beautiful
• Winston learns part of a rhyme about churches
• Winston thinks he was followed all day by the
  girl

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• Part 2

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Chapter 1

• Julia and Winston meet
• Julia is more assertive
• Winston is in love with the idea of love

• Winston gets a note from Julia saying she loves
  him
• Julia and Winston meet at victory square
• They plan another rendezvous
• A convoy of prisoners pass through the square

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Chapter 2

• Great detail is described, everything is
  beautiful

• Winston and Julia meet in the Golden Country
• She knew his name and had obtained real chocolate
• They consumate their relationship

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Chapter 3

• Julia is only aware of what directly affects her
  life
• She is very sexual

• Julia and Winston meet again and again
• They talk about their respective pasts in
  installments
• Winston tells Julia how he almost murdered his
  wife.
• He had called his wife to see some thing
  beautiful

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Chapter 4

• Winston is afraid of rats

• Winston and Julia have sex in the room above Mr
  Charrington's shop
• He leaves the paperweight there
• A prole is singing outside.
• Julia puts on makeup
• Winston is in love with Julia and needs her all
  the time

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Chapter 5

• Syme is gone
• Hate week is starting up

• Syme is gone
• Julia is a rebel from the waist down
• Julia doesn't really care to rebel

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Chapter 6

• O'Brien compliments Winston
• He felt like talking to O'Brien meant his death

• Winston and O'Brien meet and talk
• They mention Syme, but not by name

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Chapter 7

• Winston was a terrible child
• Winston doesn't care to stay alive, he wants only
  to stay human

• Winston dreams about his mother
• Julia tells Winston she will do whatever he does

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Chapter 8

• Life for Inner Party members is much better

• Winston and julia go to O'Brien's flat
• They say they will do anything but betray each
  other
• They drink wine
• He is going to get the book

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Chapter 9

• Most of the chapter is spent reading the book
• The principles of INGSOC are explained

• Hate week has started he gets the book
• He is impressed by the party
• The focus of the rage changed
• Winston reads out loud
• Winston still only understands how and not why

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Chapter 10

• There little bubble of a world gets destroyed

• Winston and Julia get arrested
• Julia gets hit in the solar plexus
• The coral was very small when the glass broke
  around it
• Mr Charrington was a spy for the thought police

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• Part 3

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Chapter 1

• Winston and Ampleforth talk
• Winston and Parsons talk
• Winston gets beaten by O'Brien's lackeys

• Interrogation begins with physical beating

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Chapter 2

• Winston's torture continues and he confesses to
  anything

• He no longer gets beaten physically
• He will confess to anything
• Electrocution
• Winston doesn't believe that 2 2 5
• Winston believes that 4 is 5
• He finds out Julia betrayed him

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Chapter 3

• O'Brien explains why the party have done what
  they have power for the sake of more power

• One man exerts his power over another by making
  him suffer
• Utopia doesn't exist
• Utopia means no place
• Winston is falling apart and rotting away
• He hasn't betrayed Julia

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Chapter 4

• Winston works at re-educating himself

• Winston Betrays himself when he cries out in his
  sleep
• He is going to be what they want, he will revolt
  in his last seconds of life

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Chapter 5

• Winston is tortured in room one-oh-one

• Winston betrays Julia when his face is forced
  into a rat cage
• Everyman has his price

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Chapter 6

• Winston loves Big Brother

• Winston spends his waking hours doing little to
  nothing
• He no longer has feelings for Julia
• He still loves his mother
• Julia is as dead
• Winston dreams about being shot in the back of
  the head