Post #8 - 1984 Book 3.3-6 (due May 10)
Reactions, please! (to the reading and to each other) Oh, and what would you find in Room 101?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Post #7 - 1984 Book 3.1-2 (due May 6)
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
1. What symbolic meaning is there in the continuous artificial light--& no windows?
2. Winston's physiological instinct to survive overpowers his psychological need to hold on to the truth: 2+2=5. How is this so? (Recall here his quote on page 86: "It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.")
3. Why can there be no wrongthinking even in those they kill? Why does O'Brien want to convince Winston that 2+2=5?
4. Why do you think Orwell dedicated almost one-third of this novel to Winston's ordeal at the Ministry of Truth?
5. What do you think Orwell wants to show us with the arrrests of Ampleforth and Parsons?
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
1. What symbolic meaning is there in the continuous artificial light--& no windows?
2. Winston's physiological instinct to survive overpowers his psychological need to hold on to the truth: 2+2=5. How is this so? (Recall here his quote on page 86: "It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.")
3. Why can there be no wrongthinking even in those they kill? Why does O'Brien want to convince Winston that 2+2=5?
4. Why do you think Orwell dedicated almost one-third of this novel to Winston's ordeal at the Ministry of Truth?
5. What do you think Orwell wants to show us with the arrrests of Ampleforth and Parsons?
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