Christina Hoang Mrs.

Stayton English II PAP 6 18 September 2012

1984 Analysis Questions Part II, Chapters. 1-2 Unless Evidence is provided for you, please provide textual evidence for EACH ANSWER!

Part II Chapter 1 1. Orwell writes, In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Compare this with Winstons treatment of the severed hand. When Winston was walking through the slums of the paroles, he encountered a human hand severed at the wrist (Orwell 84). Winston kicked the thing into the gutter and continued on his way (Orwell 84). However, when he saw the dark hair girl with a cast fall, instead of ignoring her, he instinctively started forward to help her (Orwell 106). This shows how his regard for life and how his feelings changed. 2. What was the point of the dark-haired girls pretense of a broken arm? The point of the dark-haired girls pretense of a broken arm was to slip something into [Winstons] hand. There was no question that she had done it intentionally (Orwell 106). 3. What shocking news does Winston learn? Winston discovers that the dark haired girl loves him through the note that she slipped him. This news was so startling and unsettling that he found that it was very difficult to work. What was even worse than having to focus his minds on a series of niggling jobs was the need to conceal his agitation from the telescreen (Orwell 108). 4. What shift in Winstons character has occurred? Give a specific quote that reveals this shift. Why do you suppose this shift has occurred? Before finding out that the dark haired girl loved him, Winston was full of hate and bitterness with no direction. When he finds

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out, however, he becomes energized, desperate to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting (Orwell 109). Winston becomes filled with hope and meaning. 5. What are the hindrances to Winston meeting up with the dark-haired girl? The main hindrance to their meeting was the physical problem that had to be solved: how to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting (Orwell 109). Winston and the dark haired girl were forced to take extreme measures when arranging a meeting; meeting in public places for a few seconds to traveling a long journey. 6. Summarize the humorous way in which Winston is able to sit with the Dark Haired Girl (D.H.G.). After receiving her note, Winston was desperate to talk to the Dark Haired Girl. However, Winston never found the chance. It was only when he walked into the canteen on day and found that she was sitting at a table well out from the wall, and was quite alone (Orwell 11). He was about to sit with her before a young man named Wilsher, whom he barely knew, was inviting him with a smile to a vacant place at this table. It was not safe to refuse and the girls table filled up quickly afterwards (Orwell 112). The next day, she was at a table in about the same place, and alone again (Orwell 113). Yet, there was a small, swiftly mobbing beetlelike man with a flat face and tiny, suspicious eyes whom was making straight for the girls table (Orwell 113). Winston, anxious to speak with the girl, tripped the man. 7. What was the main purpose of Winston and the D.H.G.s first meeting? The purpose of Winston and the Dark Haired Girls first meeting was for her to outline the route that he was to follow (Orwell 115). 8. The prevailing mood of the chapter is one of hope. Winston is renewed in his faith that he can be an individual in a world of automatons. Reread the last

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paragraph of the chapter and focus especially on the quote, With hands locked Why does Orwell choose to end the paragraph in this manner? While Julia and Winston were together in the physical sense, he could still not ignore what was wrong with the Party, for it was staring at him right in the eyes, symbolized by the eyes of the aged prisoner [whom] gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair (Orwell 117). Chapter 2 1. Where is Winston in the beginning of chapter 2? Describe. In the beginning of chapter 2, Winston is outside of Paddington Station, in the country, for one was much safer in the country than in London (Orwell 117). No telescreens were present, but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized (Orwell 117). 2. What is the first feeling Winston has when he and the D.H.G. first embrace? When Winston and the Dark Haired Girl embrace, the first feeling he has is one of sheer incredulity for he could have never imagined before that he would ever get the chance to be with her (Orwell 120). 3. Note Winstons reaction to tasting the chocolate. While Winston takes delight in the chocolate, it also stirred a memory which was moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like and object seen out of the corner of ones eye (Orwell 122). 4. Besides sex, how else does Julia revolt? Is this a powerful, effective revolt? Explain. Julia also spoke of the Part with an open jeering hatred and seemed unable to mention the Party, and especially the Inner Party, without using the kind of words that you saw chalked up in dripping alleyways (Orwell 122). While she was revolting against

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the Party, it is neither powerful nor effective, for nothing is accomplished. 5. Describe the Golden Country. Note the juxtaposition of the two major settings (London vs. Golden Country). The Golden Country was something that Winston saw in his dreams, and was somewhat similar to the country outside of London. The Golden Country, an old, close-bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there stands in stark contrast to the desolate, decaying city of London, filled with vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with balks of time, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron (Orweel 123,). 6. Whats a thrush? What/Who might the thrush symbolize? A thrush is a small bird. Winston and Julia see it in the country; it had alighted on a bough not five meter away, almost at the level of their faces and burst into song. The bird symbolizes freedom, especially when it sings, deliberately showing off its virtuosity (Orwell 124).