Hey guys!
You have now completed the questions for Book I and are progressing through the book. By now, the text should start to become a little clearer, as the important political and philosophical undertones are begin to resonate now that you have built a background of understanding around the work and author.
Please complete the following questions on Book II. They must be posted by 8 a.m., December 1st in order to get full-credit - the day that we return from Thanksgiving Break. In addition to completing the questions, I recommend that you finish reading the book over the Thanksgiving Break so that you will have plenty of time to complete the Book III questions during the week that we return.
In addition to the workbook questions, you will be required to take an essay-based final on the unit, and complete an art project. These will be due the second week after we return from Thanksgiving Break.
Hope this clarifies what will be happening in class over the next few weeks.
Thanks,
Mr. Parsons
English II Honors
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
7. What is "talking by installments"?
8. How did Julia view life?
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
10. What is the brotherhood?
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
17. What is "the book"?
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
19. This is not required, but you might find it interesting - the poster images that I have been using come from a famous artist named Shepard Fairey. Fairey became famous for placing pictures of an ominous, Big Brother-esque face with the words "OBEY" across America in public places. He has since become a celebrity artist and has done several recognizable pieces, including the famous Barack Obama poster from the last election. You may wish to read more about his history or seek out more of his artwork online.
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1. Propaganda is, and has been for many years, a way to share ideas as well as influence the ideas and viewpoints of others. Propaganda can be done by hanging posters and distributing fliers, but by also the parroting of ideas. In older times, the posters and fliers were much more popular, but in modern times, spoken propaganda has become more popular.
In past conflicts, propaganda has been used to mainly influence the ideas of the masses, and to recruit soldiers for war. During WW1 and WW2, propaganda was used with slogans like Uncle Sam’s “I Want You,” telling men to enlist for the protection of their country, and “It Can Happen Here,” trying to influence the people to keep the war going. In major conflicts, there is usually a lot of propaganda, simply because the ideas and views of the opposing sides are different, and each side is trying to influence as many people as possible to believe like they do.
Propaganda is still used today, but not so much in posters as it is in speeches by leaders, newspaper articles, television, and media coverage. Today, we are continually manipulated by the ideas of others. In things such as presidential elections, new laws in Congress, and controversial issues, the masses are always being manipulated into thinking the same way as others. Though propaganda has changed it’s medium, it is still widely used today as a way to make an opinion known.
Propaganda is a huge part of 1984. All the posters advertising the Party’s views, and the posters of Big Brother help to manipulate the people of Oceania into supporting the Party, and the posters also help to keep the people from rebelling. The famous slogan, “Big Brother is Watching” for example, makes the people feel as if they cannot fight back because they will be caught as soon as they even think about committing the crime. The Party is manipulating the people to believe that there is no hope for them.
Propaganda will always be a part of life. As long as there are different viewpoints people will continue to try to influence others to be on their side. No matter what form it takes, whether in posters, or speeches, or television, propaganda will probably continue to manipulate people.
2. The dark haired girl handed Winston a small folded piece of paper, while he helped her up. The message said, very simply, “I love you.”
3. Winston wanted to meet the girl, so he tried to get her by herself, in the canteen, but this took about a week for him to do. People kept sitting with her, or wanting him to sit with them, but finally he got her alone. They arranged their meeting quietly, without looking at each other. When the lunch was over, they left without saying goodbye, or looking at each other.
4. The commotion in Victory Square was caused by a caravan of prisoners being brought through town. Most of the people had never seen Eastasian prisoners, so they considered it a rare treat, and everyone went out to shout and boo, and abuse the enemy.
5. Julia’s first gift to Winston was a piece of real chocolate, which she got on the black market.
6. The second meeting was planned for a ruined belfry of an old church. The church was located in the country, where an atomic bomb had fallen many years before.
7. Talking in installments was Julia and Winston’s way of communicating between meetings. When they would walk together in the street, or sit together in the canteen, they would talk, but sometimes the conversation would have to end abruptly, so they would have to start back up again where they left off when they were able to meet again.
8. Julia thought life was just surviving as long as you can, and doing as much as you can to defy the Party. Julia was the perfect Party woman on the outside, but on the inside, she did everything she could to corrupt the Party.
9. The main change in Winston compared to the beginning of the novel, is that now he is adamantly against the Party. Winston is seeking out the Brotherhood, and is committing a major crime by sleeping with Julia. Essentially, Winston has become an enemy of the Party.
10. The Brotherhood is the people who are against the Party. They work secretly to bring the Party down. The Brotherhood does everything they can to destroy the Party, even if it costs them their existence.
11. Julia didn’t think that taking down the Party was important, only defying their rules where they touched her life. She didn’t understand or want to understand the Party. Julia just wanted to break the rules.
12. Winston first spoke to O’Brian in the hallway in almost the same place as Winston got his first note from Julia. They were right in front of the telescreen.
13. Winston’s dream brings up one of the last memories he has of his mother and younger sister. He sees that he was such a terrible kid, but his mother still loved him, and gave her life to protect him, though he still couldn’t remember how. In his memories, Winston’s mother always put him first and tried to give him what he wanted, no mater the consequence for her or Winston’s baby sister.
14. Winston told O’Brian about how he hated the Party and would do anything to bring them down. Winston admitted that he and Julia were adulterers, guilty of thoughtcrime, and don’t believe in the principles of Ingo.
15. When you were a member of the Brotherhood, you were always in the dark. You had to be willing to do anything, no matter how horrible, if it would help to bring down the Party. You had to be cut off from those you loved, and if they asked you to commit suicide, you had to do it. If you got caught, then there would also be no help. You would be killed.
16. The thing that caused the great flurry of activity in the Ministry of Truth during hate Week was that Oceania went to war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia, and the ministry of Truth had to correct the records and change the past so that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
17. “The Book” is the manual of principles that all Brotherhood members must read. The book explains everything about the party and it’s motives, and was written by the leader of the Brotherhood, Goldstein.
18. Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all resources, labor, and people are controlled by the government. A modern totalitarian government would be the Nazi regime from the early nineteen hundreds. Aldolf Hitler started the Nazi regime by discriminating and controlling everything. In a sense Hitler is like Big Brother in the book 1984, because- although Big Brother was not a real person, just a figurative idea- he ruled the totalitarian regime know in the book as Ingsoc. In 1984, Big brother and the Party control everything. They control the resources, the people, how the resources are used, and even how people think. Even people’s everyday lives were controlled.
This is very similar to Hitler’s rule. Hitler controlled all the people, and discriminated against those he didn’t like. Hitler controlled the resources, and how they were used. He even controlled the everyday lives of people, just like big brother and the Party in the book.
Although the Nazis and the totalitarian regime in 1984 are very similar n some ways, they are also very different. Hitler, for example, was only trying to destroy a certain group of people, the Jews. The Party on the other hand wanted to gain power to hurt everyone. The Party wanted to squash all independent, though, whereas all Hitler wanted to do was kill all the Jewish people.
Another difference in the Party and the Nazis was that the party controlled history and was always changing it to fit what they were doing at the time. Hitler and his Nazis never did this. They did not have the resources or the means in which to do this. The past still existed under Hitler’s rule, though just like in 1984, the past doesn’t really matter.
Both of these totalitarian regimes oppress and ultimately destroy the people they seek to control. Someone who wants power, whether it is one person or the collective minds of many people, rules both. Both Hitler and the party did the things they did to get power over others, and that is the most important similarity.
1) Propaganda has influenced many things throughout history. Propaganda is designed to sway people into thinking a certain way, joining a cause, or to remind them of what is going on in the world. Propaganda presents only the facts that would influence the viewer into believing the same as the designer of the propaganda. It could be considered lying, because only half of the facts are presented. Propaganda could be considered a type of advertising
Propaganda is mainly used during wars. In the past posters were the main type of propaganda. The Nazi’s used propaganda to convince people that what they were doing was right. Also during World War 1 and World War 2, many posters were designed to influence people into joining the war, or to ration supplies. Some posters were just created to remind the people of who the enemy was and portrayed them as monsters. Today we still have propaganda everywhere; they are just presented in different forms such as T.V. commercials, and billboards. Today, propaganda is presented in a more camouflaged way. In America, popular news programs pick and choose which stories to show the public, making sure to support their own beliefs. Like by choosing to air a segment about soldiers getting killed, this shows the people how bad the war is and further persuades them to support it. They show this news segment rather than one telling how soldiers have captured a group of extremists, because that would show that the war is going our way thus losing support because people feel no need to join the effort if things seem under control.
In George Orwells 1984 propaganda plays a big role. Giant posters of Big Brother are everywhere, with words that say “Big Brother is watching”. This instills a constant sense of being watched.; By reminding the citizens of Oceania that someone is always watching and by literally having eyes everywhere you look. The Party uses propaganda posters to remind the people who they are at war with and to show them that the Party has made life better. I also believe that the two minutes hate is a form of propaganda. It shows the Party’s side of the war, shows the bad things that war criminals have done, and forces them to be patriotic.
2. The dark haired girls’ message to Winston was “I love you”.
3. Winston faced many problems when he was trying to talk to the dark haired girl. He had to wait for her to be by herself at a table in the canteen. But this challenged him becuase people cept sitting to close to her or they wouldnt have lunch at the same time. HE solved these problems by being patient and by tripping the beetle like man because he thought he would take a seat next to her.
4. The commotion in victory square was caused by a passing convoy of Eurasia prisoners.
5. Julia’s first gift for Winston was a piece of chocolate. She got it on the black market.
6. Their second meeting was planned to be on a street in the poor quarters after they got off of work. There was a market that they could use as an alibi.
7. Talking by installments is when Julia and Winston start a conversation and when someone came close they stop talking completely. When it’s safe to talk again the pick up the conversation where they left off at.
8. Julia viewed life as being simple. All she wanted to do was have a good time and
broke any of the party’s rules that got in her way.
9. The changes in winston are not subtle changes. In the beginning his breaking the rules meant writing a diary, and he didnt seem to have a will to live. When he meets julia they break as many rules as they possible can, and has a new found energy and seems to almost love life.
10. The brotherhood is Goldstein’s organization it’s the alliance of people against the party.
11. Julia made Winston realize that understanding what the party was doing was important. Julia didn’t like the rules set down by the party but didn’t care about how they were falsifying every part of their lives. Winston understands how much the party’s wrong doing affects him and how they control the past and not just the present.
12. Winston first talked to O’Brian in the same hallway at the ministry where he got the help from Julia.
13. Winston’s dream brought up memories of the last time he saw his mom and sister. It reminded him of a time when he stole his dying baby sisters piece of chocolate.
14. Winston admits to O’Brian that he hates the party and believes that O’Brian is part of the secret organization whose mission is to destroy the party. He also admits that he and Julia are thought of as criminals and adulators.
15. Being a member of the brotherhood meant that you had to be ready and willing to kill, commit suicide, black mail, have your appearance surgically altered and be willing to die for the cause of freedom.
16. During hate week the party changed who they were at war with. The ministry had to change every document from Eurasia to East Asia .
17. “The Book” was written by Goldstein. It was his interpretation of the parties slogan. In it, it denounces the party’s lies
18. Totalitarianism is a type of government that runs on pure submission of its people. The people are not seem as necessary to the ruling Party. Totalitarian governments have unconditional rule of the public and private lives of its citizens. One famous totalitarian regime would be that of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s. Hitler mass murdered Jewish people, but the people under his rule never really knew that they were being killed until later. They knew that Jews were being sent to concentration camps but never had conformation that they had all been killed. This is much like the rule of Big Brother and the Party. People in 1984 vanished when they were caught by the thought police. Their neighbors or comrades had an unspoken suspicion of what had happened to them but wouldn’t dare bring it up. Big Brother had people vaporized and erased from history. Much like what Hitler tried to do. Hitler also used propaganda to influence people into joining his army. Big Brother used propaganda to show that what he said goes and that he holds absolute power. The two regimes did have some differences though. Big Brother and the Party didn’t use propaganda to get people to join the war. People in Oceania made posters and held rallies to make people be patriotic but I got the impression that regular people were not encouraged to join the war. Hitler and the Nazi’s told their citizens to join the war and would rather have support with a gun than a banner saying “Heil Hitler”.
Sam.
5th period
1.What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel?
- Propaganda is everything we hear, everything we see, and is done from the work of evil. If you believe this statement, then you are wrong.
Propaganda is a device used to influence peoples thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. Propaganda convinces people to think a certain way, or to believe in what the propaganda is trying to convince you of.
Another mistake made about propaganda, is that it is considered to always provide false information. The facts may not be false, just displayed in different ways to draw you in, or convert what you believe into what it wants you to believe.
Propaganda is usually used when it comes to armed conflicts, and war. Propaganda is also used in other cases, such as, political campaigns, the service of peace, and various government moments. Propaganda is done by posters, slogans, logos, flyers, T.V, and is displayed in many other ways.
Propaganda is used a lot in wars. For example, during the Second World War the public was overflowed with pro war messages through posters, newsreels, and photographs in the press. One poster by Steel Savage said “For your country’s sake today- for your own sake tomorrow, go to the nearest recruiting station of the armed service of your choice.” This poster tried to persuade people to join the war, and make them think bad things would happen to them and their country if they do otherwise.
Today propaganda is usually displayed thought media. Any politician uses slogans to convince people that their way of thinking is the best, and to influence them with the same beliefs of the politicians’ political party. Some people would do anything to make you believe what they do, and that's where propaganda plays its role.
In the book 1984, propaganda is one of the main ideas. It plays a big role on the people and what they believe. For example the big posters that hang everywhere that say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” they help to sway the people of Oceania into supporting the party. This poster slogan also makes them scared to even commit anything against the Party, or to even second-guess the Party’s ideas, and ways of ruling. Also, the war posters in this book display hatred toward the enemy, the posters remind the people of who they are suppose to hate and convince the people to feel disgust against them.
Whether it for war, campaigns, government movements, of anything else, propaganda will always be apart of our lives and the life’s of generations to come.
2. What was the dark-haired girl’s message?
- “I love you”
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
-He picked a day where the girl was alone and he could talk to her without the notice of others. He had to trip someone that was walking to her table just to get her alone. They sat not looking at each other and arranged their meeting without even having a noticeable conversation.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
-A passing cavern of Eurasia prisoners.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
-The black market, it was a piece of chocolate.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
-It was planned for them to meet at an old ruined church.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
-It is where Julia and Winston had to pick up their conversation where they left off from the times when their conversations had to be stopped quickly. They would just pick back up on them when they began talking again.
8. How did Julia view life?
-Julia viewed life as something you have to get through. You had to go by all the rules; you had to do everything to stay alive. But you cannot deny your beliefs, she could break the Party rules and she would not feel any regret, she pretended to believe, but really she was just an enemy to the Party.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
-Winston becomes more willing to act upon what he believes, and to break more rules. It seems he knows that he will eventually die, but he doesn't care that much anymore, as long as he can be with Julia, he starts to remember more about the past and about his mother. I believe he sort of begins to think he is capable of carrying out his plans, and goals. He thinks he's sort of invincible at the time.
10. What is the brotherhood?
-The brotherhood is an organization directed under Goldstein, it's a group of people who believe against the Party, and are willing to give up almost anything to try to destroy it no matter how long it takes.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
-Julia didn’t thinking understanding the Party was important. She loved breaking the rules, because she did not agree with it, yet she didn't entirely understand it, neither did she want to. If it didn't affect a part that affected her, she could care less.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
-Right in front of the telescreen, almost exactly where Julia had given him that note.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
-Winston realized how terrible he had been to his mother and younger sister. He was selfish, he only wanted things for himself and he didn't care for either of them. Like the time they had nothing to eat but chocolate, Winston stole it from his little sister. She had nothing to eat. Winston still believed he was the cause of his mother’s death.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
-Winston told O’Brien he hated the party, him and Julia were guilty of thought crime, they were adulterers, he said he would do anything he could just to bring the party down.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
-Being a member meant you had to do whatever it would take. Whether it was changing your identity, killing yourself, blackmailing, or killing, you had to do it. There was no help for you if you were caught, and you must never reveal any other names.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
-The Party changes whom they were at war with. The people who worked at the Ministry of Truth had to change everything that said that they were at war with Eurasia to saying that they were at war with Eastasia.
17. What is "the book"?
-It’s a manual of principles that is required for member to read. It is written by Goldstein, and it interprets the Party’s slogans and explains the reasons for the wars and the Party’s lies.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
-Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all societal resources are controlled by the state in an effort to enter and control all aspects of public and private life, through the state’s use of propaganda, terror and technology.
An example of a totalitarian government is that of Singapore. Singapore has been under the rule of the Lee family, since 1959. In Singapore, every newspaper, TV station, radio station, magazine, any publication of any sort is entirely owned and controlled by the government. Any Singapore media is a tool for “nation building,” it’s just a form of government propaganda. This totalitarian government of Singapore is very closely related to the totalitarian government of Oceania in the book 1984. In Oceania, as well as in Singapore, every form of media is controlled by the government. In Oceania the government controlled the media to make sure that the people of Oceania believed all the things that the government told them and so they wouldn't have anything to form a second opinion from. In Singapore the government is very similar, they use to media for government propaganda, and to convince the people that the rule Singapore is under is the best.
Also, in totalitarian countries like Singapore, the populations who may have better ideas and better methods on government policy are denied the opportunity of uttering them. Such governments, in their arrogance, believe that they alone know best about everything, and therefore, there is no need to consult the people. And by doing so, they effectively deny themselves a wealth of new ideas and alternative viewpoints, which could have benefited the country immensely. This totalitarian idea is also much like the 1984 totalitarian rule over Oceania. In the book, instead of the Scientists finding new ideas for technology and people voicing new opinions on things that could be made better, the scientist are spending all their time creating weapons for war and things for the government to spy on the people with. The government of Oceania is to afraid for the people to become to smart because it could cause they to rebel, or discover new things, and that's not what Big Brother wasn’t, unless it is for war.
A way the totalitarian government of Singapore is different form Oceania’s is that the people of Singapore are perfectly aware of what the government is doing, and they do not agree with it. However, they cannot act against it without being killed. Most of the people of Oceania had no idea what the government was up to; they still believed everything the government told them, mostly through the propaganda that was being displayed through out the country.
1) What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Answer:
Propaganda is information spread for the purpose to support a cause. It was used all through out the novel. The story uses propaganda when it has the big posters of Big Brother up all over town saying that he’s watching you. The party uses the posters to intimidate the citizens of Oceania to obey them. Another example of propaganda in the novel would be the messages the telescreens blast all day long. The party uses this to keep their slogans and personal feelings repeated over and over in the citizen’s heads.
The two-minute hate also shows us propaganda in the novel. The party flashes pictures of Goldstein and the Eurasian armies to get the people angry and make sure they’re still supporting the war. Another example of propaganda would be all the posters and banners the party hung up during Hate Week. The party put these up to get the people of Oceania fired up for the Hate week. Another example would be Goldstein’s book for the brotherhood. He wrote the book to denounce the party’s ideas and help the new members of the brotherhood understand the cause. The Anti- Sex league is another example. They wear the red sashes around their waist to show that they don’t believe in having sex.
The three major examples of propaganda would be the three slogans War is peace, Freedom is slavery, and Ignorance is strength. The party uses these slogans to help control the minds of the people. The party plasters them on posters, the coins and telescreens so they stay in the people’s heads. The party keeps these everywhere so no one forgets them. These slogans also help with the party’s concept of double thinking.
Propaganda plays a large role in the novel 1984. Without propaganda the party’s beliefs would not be so strongly demonstrated. Propaganda helps to push the strong political issues out the forefront for us. The party uses so much propaganda to drill their messages into the people heads so that they don’t want to revolt. With all of the messages and meanings drilled into them the people don’t even think the idea of revolting.
2) What was the dark-haired girl's message?
Answer:
The dark haired girl’s message was I love you. She gave it to him by falling in the hallway and slipping it to him when she helped her up. He read it like twenty minutes later. After reading the message he was really confused by her. He thought that it could have been a trap. He also thought that it could be true.
3) How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark haired girl?
Answer:
He kept trying to catch her alone in the canteen at a table away from the telescreens. It took a little bit and he started to give up. Then he finally got her alone at the table. Then they began to talk and decided where they met for the first time. Then they went to the woods and that’s where they started their relationship.
4) What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
Answer:
The thing that caused the commotion at Victory Square was the Eurasian prisoners that were being brought in on the trucks. The people started to scream and run after the people in the trucks. Winston and Julia just followed right in behind them. There was a huge crowd just following the trucks screaming and yelling at the prisoners. After the last truck past everyone went back to normally what they usually do.
5) Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Answer:
The first gift that Julia gave Winston was good chocolate. Winston asked her where she got and she said the black market. Eating the chocolate brought back many memories for Winston. He was really surprised by the fact that she was able to get the chocolate. She told him that you could get everything there.
6) Where was the second meeting planned (time together –not passing on the street)?
Answer:
The next meeting planned was when they were at the belfry at the ruined church. It was in the deserted part of the country where an atomic bomb had hit thirty years earlier. They went there during the month of May. Winston said that it was the only other occasion they had succeeded in making love. Winston also commented that it was very dangerous to get there.
7) What is “talking in installments”?
Answer:
Talking in installments was when Julia and Winston were walking down the street talking. They would talk for a sentence or two then they would stop talking because of a party uniform was getting closer to them or a telescreens was getting closer. Then they would pick back up when they left off but stop again at the place they were set to leave each other. Then the next day they would pick back up and start again.
8) How did Julia view life?
Answer:
She felt that life was very simple. She thought that you just had fun and had no worries. She also thought that as long as the party’s slogans didn’t touch her she was fine. She felt that she was against the party by having sex with the outer members. She was very naïve because of how young that she was.
9) What changes have taken place in Winston’s life as compared to our first views of him?
Answer:
There has been a large amount of changes in Winston’s life. When we first met him he was depressed and lonely. He was always into the routine and never had any fun. Then he met Julia and started seeing her. He got happier, and he put on some weight. He also lost the varicose veins in his leg.
10) What is the Brotherhood?
Answer:
The brotherhood is the group that does everything they can against the party. It is directed by Goldstein. They will do anything that it takes to go against the government even if it causes the members their life. The members of the brotherhood don’t even know how many members there are. The members were expected to even throw acid into a child’s face if necessary. If you got caught you were on your own and they wouldn’t help you.
11) Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Answer:
Julia didn’t care much about defying the party. The only rules that she wanted to break were the ones that dealt with her life. She didn’t understand the party’s policies nor did she want to. Winston told her that she was only a rebel from the waist down. She just wanted to break the rules.
12) Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Answer:
Winston first spoke to O’Brien in the hallway in almost the same place he got the first note from Julia. He was telling Winston that he used Newspeak really well in his work. They were right in front of the telescreen. Then he was telling Winston about the new dictionary that came out. Then he gave Winston his address to come to his house to see the dictionary.
13) What memories did Winston’s dream bring up?
Answer:
Winston’s dream brought up the last memories of his sister and mother. He saw that he was a horrible kid. Especially since he stole his sister’s chocolate. He also saw that his mother loved him no matter how he acted because she died for him. In the memories he realized that his mother always put him first not matter what his sister needed. He probably used that to know he should change.
14) What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Answer:
Winston told them that he wanted to do anything to bring down the party. He told him that Julia and he were adulterers. He told him that that they were guilty of thought crime. He also said that they didn’t believe in the principles of Ignos. He also said that he thought O’Brien was part of the brotherhood.
15) What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
Answer:
You had to read the book. You had to tell the brotherhood all of the things you did. You had to be willing to do anything to go against the party. If you were asked to committee suicide you had to. You had to be cut off from the ones you loved. If you were caught by the thought police you were on your own, they wouldn’t help you out.
16) What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
Answer:
The thing that caused the flurry of activity at the ministry of truth was that the enemy changed. Oceania went from being at war with Eurasia to being at war with Eastasia. The citizens started screaming and having a fit. The party said that the brotherhood was the ones who caused it. That made all the workers have to go back and change all the records.
17) What is "the book"?
Answer:
The book is the manual of the brotherhood. It was written by Goldstein who was the leader of the brother hood. Each member had to read the book. It was basically telling the new member exactly about the party’s polices and what was wrong with them. It also denounced the party’s lies.
18) Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
Answer:
Totalitarian regimes are a form of government that all resources, labor and people are controlled by the government. The Nazi regimes were a fine example of the totalitarian regimes. Adolf Hitler stared the regime by wanting to control everything. He is like Big brother in the fact that they both controlled everything even though Big Brother wasn’t a real person. He ruled the regime know as Ignos. In 1984 Big brother ruled everything with the party. They controlled resources, and how they were used. They controlled the people and even how they think. The people every day lives were controlled.
This is exactly like Hitler’s rule. He controlled all the people and discriminated those that he didn’t like. He was just like Big Brother in the fact that they controlled everything the people had and did. Even though they are a lot alike there are a few differences. Hitler wanted to purify the world of the race of Jews. The regime in 1984 wanted to gain power and hurt ever one. The party wanted to get rid of independence while Hitler just wanted to kill the Jews.
Another example would be that the party and Big Brother could change the past history. The Nazi’s didn’t do that. They couldn’t do that because they didn’t have the means or the power to do it. The past of the Nazi regime’s still exists unlike that of the regime in 1984.
Both regimes just wanted power and get rid of people’s abilities to revolt. It doesn’t matter if it was one person or a group they want both things. They both did this to create power over others. That is the most important comparison.
Melissa Jackson
5th Period
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Propaganda is a way to share ideas as well as influence the ideas and viewpoints of others. Well basically propaganda is a way to make people believe in your views without actually coming out and saying believe in this. It is a way for have people go for what you believe without them actually knowing that’s what your doing. Propaganda can be spoken, written in books, on posters, in fliers, on T.V, on billboards, ect. there are many different ways that propaganda can be used in. It’s a form of advertising. Propaganda is used in wars, political campaigns, government agencies, anything trying to get you to join into it . It is used to either remind people of the war, or to get people to join the armed forces. The facts used in propaganda do not have to be false. they just have to be a way to draw you in or persuade you to the beliefs in whatever it is used for. In the book propaganda is used to get the citizens of Oceania to do as the party tells them to. The posters “BIG BROTHER IS WATCIHNG YOU” is a form of propaganda. It tells the people that they’re being watched so they should do as “big brother” tells them too. The poster has the people afraid to do anything against the party. The posters around Oceania remind the people who to hate, who to respect, what to do, how to act. Propaganda is all around us. We might not even notice it when we’re seeing it or hearing it. It has been used for years, and it will still be used for years to come. We’ll never be able to escape propaganda its all around us, everywhere we go, always following us.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The dark-haired girl’s message was a note that said "I Love You."
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
He went to lunch early and saw the dark-haired girl sitting alone. He got his lunch and went to sit with her. When no one was looking, they would continue to look at their food and talk by barley moving their lips. She told him where to go and he left. Winston met her at the place she told him to go to and she gave him new directions to somewhere private.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The commotion was about the passing prisoners in the trucks. The people, mostly party members where booing and yelling at them.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Julia got her first gift for Winston, which was a piece of real chocolate, she got the chocolate on the black market
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
Their second meeting was planned to be in the middle of the street when they got off work. They could use the market as an alibi.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
Talking by installments was were Winston and Julia could talk but their conversations could end quickly then be picked back up.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia believed that you should have fun in life. She acted the way the party did, well she acted the way she was told to in front of the telescreen, took part in the junior anti-sex league, did everything that wouldn’t make her look like she didn’t believe like the others did. She really didn’t believe like the party did, she was wild and corrupted. She did as many bad things as she could.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Winston is more sneaky now that he is seeing Julia. He also seemed like he didn’t have a reason to live. At first when he broke the rules he was just writing in his diary. Now he breaks all the rules when he’s with Julia.
10. What is the brotherhood?
The brotherhood is like a party against the party. They try to do everything to bring the party down.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia didn’t think taking the party down was important. All she wanted to do was go against the party. Winston realized that understanding what the party was important but Julia didn’t care about how the party was falsifying their lives.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
He first spoke with O’Brien In the hall when he was walking back to his office. They were in front of a telescreen.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
His dream was about his mother and his little sister. The last time he saw them was the dream and what had happened. He stole his sister’s chocolate and ran out of the house, when he returned his mother and sister were gone.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Winston told O’Brien about him hating the party, being a criminal of thoughtcrime, and all about him and Julia. He admits to wanting to take the Party down.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
Being part of the brotherhood meant being in the dark, being willing to kill, commit suicide, change your identity, and if caught you could never reveal any of the other members names. If you were caught, you would have no help and be killed. You were cut off from the people you loved. You also had to be willing to do anything.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
The party changed who they were at war with. Instead of being at war with Eurasia they had to change everything to say they were at war with Eastasia.
17. What is "the book"?
“The book” is a manual of principals required for the brotherhood members to read. Goldstein wrote the book telling all about what the party does and the motives of the party.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
A totalitarian regime is a form of government where everything and everyone are controlled by the government. It controls peoples private and public lives. In the book the Party controls the people of Oceania lives. They tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. An example of an totalitarian regime would be Adolf Hitler’s regime in the nineteen hundreds. He started with the Nazis to control the Jews, well to abolish or get rid of the Jews. He would control how the acted. Hitler would kill people if the were a Jew, much like the party killed people for thoughtcrime. Hitler wanted to get rid of all the Jews, the Party wanted to get rid of independence. Both Hitler and the Party wanted people to be like their image of how the world should be. The regime’s want power, that’s all the want pretty much. Power, control, and world where everyone is alike is what both regimes wanted. Even though both regimes are alike in many ways they are also different. The Party wanted everyone to be the same and act the same. When Hitler on the other hand just wanted to destroy the Jews, one group of people. All a totalitarian regime pretty much is, is a person, or government that wants all the power and to control everything everyone does. The Party changed history to control what the people thought, Hitler and the Nazis could not.
Book II
5th period
1. Propaganda is a form of advertising that is designed to persuade people. It's advertising an idea and trying to get a message out so that masses will hear the message and act accordingly. Propaganda was used in WW I, posters were used to convince people to enlist in the army. One pictured showed a man in a house looking out the window and watching the soldiers walk by, it said "Which side of the window are you on?" it was trying to make you feel guilty for not joining the army. A simple and more close to home picture was a drawing of a woman and a baby in a stormy sea, they had looks on their faces as if crying out in torment. Under the picture is said simply "ENLIST" this poster was also trying to make you feel guilty.
The propaganda used in 1984 was a bit different from those used in WWI. They were all about making someone feel watched or convincing people to hate the enemy. It was all about control of the people, from the music on the telescreens to again the posters, all the propaganda was nothing more than "mined control" then just advertising ideas.
Propaganda has been used many times in the past and will definitely have a place in the future. For those who bother to look, it might change their lives, however those who ignore; may find themselves in the ministry of love.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The message was a simple love note, it read: "I Love You"
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
He decided to get her into a crowded room so no telescreens would be able to see them. He made sure that them sitting together would seem coincidental. Lastly He arranged a meeting with her at the table.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The slaves were being brought in. This event interested the people because the slaves were so foreign to them.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
She bought it from the black market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
The second meeting was planned to be in an old church.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
"talking by installments" is used when Winston and Julia are forced to stop conversations at odd places (in the middle of sentences, est.) do to people walking by them, telescreens, anything that what make it unsafe for Winston and Julia to converse. The "installments" part comes in when the conversation is safe to continue, Winston, or Julia or whomever talked last picks up where they left off (such as finishing the rest of a sentence).
8. How did Julia view life?
More or less as a game where BB are the bad guys and they try to prevent her from doing anything fun, where as she tries to have fun and break all the rules anyway. A childish and dangerous way to live however in that world "Life" is more of a condition then something with real meaning.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
He's happy, more reckless and all around a better person. His condition and everything about him (including his constant need for Victory Gin) has changed to a noticeable point, he is now without a doubt slipping up (or very close) and going to get vaporized whereas before he had a chance.
10. What is the brotherhood?
The Brotherhood is a supposed underground organization with the goal of overthrowing BB.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia was could care less about the inner workings of the party. She just knew that there were rules set by the party and she wanted to break them.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Winston met O'Brien in the hallway, where he had had an encounter with Julia.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
Memories of when he was a little kid, starving for food. He stole food from his own home, took more than his share from his sister and stole chocolate right out of her hand. There was also a memory of his mother and how she was expecting something bad to happen, in the end she and his sister disappeared.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
He and Julia hated the party, were adulterers, had committed thought crime and were willing to do anything for the brotherhood.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
You had to be able to kill yourself on command, be willing to change your, appearance, job, and become another person. You had to be able to agree to horrible tasks like throwing sulfuric acid onto the face of a child. The worst were the facts that you would never see the fruits of your labors or even be able to anything about the Brotherhood more so than it exists.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
The flurry was caused when the ally was changed from Eurasia to Eastasia. The Ministry of truth had to correct every document so as to change the past from fighting Eurasia to never have fought Eurasia and having the enemy changed to always being Eastasia.
17. What is "the book"?
The Book was written by Goldstein and is an inside look about the real history of Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. Also included are the current happenings are in those countries (what's really going on behind the scenes).
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
There are several memorable totalitarian government rulings in history. Some are more memorable than other, Hitler's is a fine example. However this totalitarian ruling is far more recent then any of the super famous one's prior to its existence as a matter of fact it's in the works today and some might say its even worse than "1984"!
This is none other than North Korea.
North Korea is comparable to Oceania in many ways. One of which is the fact that the people who are more or enslaved there, are under full control. In the North Korea they have a curfew and the people residing there have to be in bed with lights off at that time. Another comparable issue is all the memorials in the country, these people get statues and the like to be found all over the place which is similar to the propaganda posters of "1984". If that's not bad enough, they are just like "1984" with news and the like. On CNN.com there is an article dating back to 2003 (not too far back) about the propaganda of North Korea, apparently (and this is scary) not only do they depict themselves as having good living conditions and everything being ok, but they also were rallying the people to hate the Bush administration. Saying that after the U.S. is done with Iraq North Korea is their next target and that they should prepare their forces to be ready when the attack finally happens.
The people of North Korea are starving, no surprise there. They can't safely escape their country, escape means running the risk of being sent to prison which is most definitely not something a person would want to endure. This place is the closest thing to "1984" in the world as of now. With the news, the control of the people and the encouraged resentment of who the government says is "the bad guy" it is what Georg Orwell was warning the masses about in his novel "1984". Hopefully no one will be ever comparing the U.S. to his work.
1.) Propaganda has been used for many years all over the world for many different things. Propaganda is used to spread ideas, or help a cause. They are mostly remembered being used during the 2nd World War. Examples like: “Uncle Sam Wants You”, “Women for the War”. Why do u we use propaganda, we use this because this is one of the main ways ideas are spread. Before television this is how it was done. Making a poster, putting your idea on it, and sticking it to a wall, that’s how it was done.
In the book nineteen-eighty four propaganda is one of the main ideas. Through out the first book Winston describes the different propaganda posters and what they mean. Probably the main poster is “Big Brother is Watching”, or the party slogan War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength. The party uses these ideas to scare the people into doing what they. They kind of use these things to brainwash the citizens of Oceania. They also use these propaganda slogans to scare them from rebelling against the party. Around every turn there is another sign that says “Big Brother is Watching”. One more form of propaganda could be 2 minute hate. The way the party uses the screen to project the enemies of Oceania and show the ideas of the party. These are the ways that the party use propaganda through out the story.
2.) Winston was walking down the hall one day and passed Julia. She fell and as he helped her up she handed him a note. The note from Julia read “I Love You”.
3.) After Winston found out that Julia was in love with him he had to get in touch with her. He waited for her many days to be by herself at one of the lunch tables. He solved the problems by waiting and not getting to excited.
4.) The reason there was excitement in the courtyard was because there was a passing convey of Eurasian POW’s.
5.) The first time Julia and Winston meet outside of work Julia had a gift for him. The gift was a piece of chocolate the she received from the black market.
6.) The second place they planned to meet was in a poor spot of town in a market area.
7.) Talking by installments is when Julia and Winston meet by a business. The reason they do this is because it is loud and thy can talk without the Big Brother hearing.
8.) Julia viewed her life as fun. She didn’t want to break the big laws but would break the small ones if it came to it.
9.) Winston started out not breaking any of the laws besides writing his ides down in a diary. But since he met Julia he has started to become dangerous and breaking laws.
10.) The brotherhood is the group that Goldstein formed that is trying to take down the party.
11.) Julia didn’t want to destroy the party but to live life as fun and crazy as possible. All she wanted to do was break the laws of the party and have a good time.
12.) He first spoke to O’Brian was in the same hall the Julia fell in and handed him the note.
13.) The dream reminded the time Winston stole food for his sister. It also reminded him of the last time he saw his mother and sister.
14.) Winston tells O’Brian that he believes that O’Brian is part of the brotherhood. He also tells him that he and Julia are breaking the law.
15.) Being a member of the brotherhood could be very dangerous. It could cause to have to do horrible things to you or you friends at anytime.
16.) Hate week was crazy because the party went to war with the wrong country. The ministry of truth had to change every thing that indicated that they were at war with Eurasia, because they were at war with East Asia.
17.) The book was wrote by Goldstein and told of the lies that the party had made.
18.) Totalitarianism is one of the worst and cruelest government types ever. Some of the most famous are Adolf Hitler and his Nazi’s regime, and Joseph Stalin and his Soviet Union.
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime will be remembered forever and what they did to the Jews of the middle eastern part of the world. The way Hitler treated the Jews can be compared to the party in the nook nineteen-eighty four in many different ways. Hitler killed millions of Jewish people without people even knowing. Much like what the party did to people in the story. People would just disappear without anyone even knowing. Another way that Hitler and his regime can be compared to the party is the way they rationed the food. Both Hitler and the party ration the food very hard almost until starvation. Propaganda was used by both the parties a lot. The party used propaganda to influence patriotism and try to support the war. Hitler tried to get people to join the war, the party didn’t want regular people joining the war this is one of the differences between the two.
I hope that totalitarianism will never be used again. To know that you have no control over anything you do even if it comes down to what you think. People have been tortured and killed just because they said something against the party. This is why a totalitarianism government is a horrible thing.
Alex Lanning - 5th period.
1] Propaganda is a way of delivering a message to persuade and convince people to join a certain cause. It purposely spreads information and rumors and is controlled by an organization, government, or movement. Propaganda is usually thought of in the situations of war and politics and has been around for a very long time. When used, it is provided in a public place or something people always see, such as posters, television, newspapers and more.
Even though the uses of propaganda have been used for a very long time and can be found today, they were enhanced during Holocaust and the World Wars. One poster from 1933, made a month after Hitler obtained power, demands “Let Hitler Work!” This particular piece of propaganda was telling people to leave Hitler alone, stop trying to fight him and deny his power, and just let him do what he wants. By persuading people to give in to Hitler, which is what that one sentence did, propaganda was making people’s decisions for them.
In the novel 1984, propaganda plays one of the largest roles. Orwell described the opening setting to have posters everywhere screaming “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!” and others that say, “War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.” The poster about Big Brother indicated that no matter what you did, Big Brother would know about it and you would face consequences. The slogans basically meant that you have to give rights to get rights. Also in the novel, the telescreen showed propaganda and convinced people to have much hatred for the enemy. The Big Brother government definitely used propaganda to rule the people, almost like mind-control.
2] The dark-haired girl’s message to Winston was, “I love you.”
3] Winston wanted to get the girl alone so he could talk to her. He had to be patient though because problems kept occurring. Finally at lunch one day, he sat at the same table as her. While they ate, they held a conversation but looked down the entire time to not make it noticeable.
4] In Victory Square, a great commotion was brought by a caravan of Eurasia prisoners.
5] Julia’s first gift to Winston was bought from the Black Market.
6] Winston and Julia planned to meet at an old church in the country.
7] Talking by Installments was an act used by Julia and Winston. They would carry on a conversation, then stop it completely when a person walked by. As soon as it was safe for them to speak again, the conversation would pick up where it left off.
8] Julia found life to be quite simple and stress-free. She acted as if she agreed with the party, and was part of it. But internally, she held much hate for the party and broke any rule that slowed her path.
9] Winston underwent immense change from the beginning of the novel to after he met Julia. The biggest difference was his hate for the party. In the beginning, Winston felt horrible about writing in his diary, and was very self-conscious about it. Also, he let the party hold him back from things he wanted to do, such as sleeping with a woman. After meeting Julia though, he felt no regret for his actions. Not only did he sleep with her, but also Winston broke any other rules he wanted. He became much happier and carefree like Julia.
10] The Brotherhood was a group of people who were fighting against the party. Their ruler was Goldstein, and they were willing to do anything to destroy Big Brother.
11] Julia only cared about the parts of the party that effected her. She was not willing understand why they made such rules, she only wanted to break them.
12] On the way back to his office, Winston first spoke with O’Brian. It was in front of the telescreen and close to where Julia gave Winston her love note.
13] Winston’s dreams may be interpreted as foreshadowing. They brought back memories of how he stole food from his sister, and the rest of his family. His mother suspected something bad to happen, and Winston eventually lost both of them. The manner of which Winston breaks rules now may also end in a loss.
14] Winston believes O’Brian is part of the brotherhood and he confesses his and Julia’s acts of mischief. He hopes to be included in the Brotherhood.
15] Being a member of the Brotherhood was fulltime job and was very dangerous. One must have to be willing to kill themselves when asked. To completely change your identity, and to perform horrid tasks.
16] Hate week at the Ministry of Truth was frazzled because they went to war with not Eurasia but East Asia, which was the wrong country. The Ministry then had to completely erase all documents that identified hate against Eurasia and rewrite them to say the enemy has always been East Asia.
17] The Book, written by Goldstein, told of the faults of the party, its lies, and the real history of Oceana and its enemies.
18] Totalitarianism occurs when a dictator or organization has complete rule over its people and can destroy their identity, privacy and every aspect that pertains to a person. There is usually a certain idea that is enforced and propaganda is often used. George Orwells’ novel, 1984, is great example of totalitarian dictatorship. In relation to the acts of Big Brother, Benito Mussolini performed tasks that were just as degrading.
Mussolini took control in the 20th century and organized the Fascist Party. He was known to “buy” support by promising his workers certain shifts and profits. Mussolini created the Acerbo Law that altered the outcome of election results. If one party received atleast 25% of the votes in an election, they would get 66% of the seats in parliament. Eventually, when it was time for parliament to vote on the Acerbo law, most of the politicians agreed to it, contrary to the fact it would end their careers if they were not fascist.
The politicians voted this way because of the fascist thugs. If the thugs caught someone speaking against the Fascist Party, they would instantly be killed.
Mussolini’s dictatorship was very similar to that in the novel 1984. In one sense, the ideas were the same. There was one party that everyone feared, but looked up to at the same time. If you did not follow that party, you were killed. Also, the Fascist Party had complete control over the elections just like Big Brother had complete control over the past, present and future. Mussolini and his people put aside the votes that were against him, which made fascists the majority of parliament. Another similarity between the two dictating parties is their use of propaganda. Mussolini and Big Brother each forced their ideas on the people that they ruled by posters and slogans.
Even though Mussolini was liked by some, his ideas of obtaining all power and having complete control were very wrong and greedy. Millions of people have been murdered due to the totalitarianism dictatorship of Hitler, Mussolini and others. The act of taking rights away from citizens, destroying their families, privacy, and lives is horrible. In hopes of equality, dictatorship should be banished.
Sara Elisabeth Hardin
3rd Period Honors English II
Book #2 Questions
1. Propaganda is used all the time, everywhere in the world, as a way to show ones opinion or view on a certain issue. Some can also manipulate others to have the same viewpoint as what the propaganda message is saying. Propaganda is used by posters/flyers, and also by just putting your idea and thoughts on a certain issue out there. Propaganda is always being done for issues such as war, presidency, abortion, taxes, and many others.
The main use of propaganda is during times of war. There are many posters out there that are propaganda and are made to manipulate either ones viewpoint, or to persuade men to enlist for war. Everyone has a different viewpoint when it comes to talking about the government and the war. These propaganda posters express the different ideas and thoughts on this particular issue. Specific propaganda posters such as Uncle Sams's "I Want You Poster", and many others are to persuade men in the United States to enlist into the war.
In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, propaganda is used in several ways to convince the citizens of Oceania and plays a big role. There are posters hung up everywhere that have a big picture of "Big Brother". In bold letters it states "Obey", or "Big Brother is watching". These posters are hung in order to remind the citizens of what they should do. Just like any other propaganda poster in reality, these posters in the novel express a viewpoint from the government in which manipulates the people to obey and to always watch out. In Ocenaia, there are telescreens and cameras everywhere, to ensure that the posters meaning is persued, that they are always being watched no matter where they go. These posters and manipulating propaganda techniques that are used in the novel, forces the citizens to obey and to share the same veiwpoints as the government, and "Big Brother."
2. The dark-haired girl's message to Winston said, "I Love You."
3. Winston tried every way he could to get the dark-haired girl alone during lunch. People would always be sitting with her or around her at the canteen, and this became a problem for Winston, because he wanted her alone. Finally, Winston managed sitting with her after having to trip someone to stop them from getting to her before him. They didnt even look at each other the whole time, nor did they have a noticable conversation.
4. There was a parade of Eurasia Prisoners passing by, and it caused commotion in Victory Square. Most of the people had never seen the prisoners, so therefore, people were outside yelling and booing them as they went through town.
5. Julia got Winston a peice of real chocolate from the Black Market as a first gift.
6. The second meeting was planned to be at this old ruined church, that was located in the country.
7. "Talking by installments" was where Julia and Winston would have to stop their conversation quickly, and pick it back up again where they left off.
8.Julia believed that you should do whatever you could just to survive in life. She did, on the outside, obey the Party. On the inside, thought, she did whatever she could to go against the Party.
9. In the beginning of the novel, Winston commits the crime of simply writing in the diary. At that time he is almost scared of what will happen. As the book goes on, you get a sort of different veiw of Winston. Now, Winston commits several crimes with Julia, and they are not considered small to the Party. Winston seems to be expressing his true feelings toward the Party, and to be living his life more freely than before.
10. The Brotherhood is a group of people who hate the Party and who are out to destroy it. The leader of this group is Goldstein. Anyone in the brotherhood would do whatever it takes just to destroy Big Brother and the Party.
11. Julia didn't neccasarily go totally against the Party, but she loved breaking the rules. She went against what ever rules affected her but she didnt care about the rules that didnt affect her.
12. Winston spoke to O'Brien right in front of the telescreen. It was almost exactly in the same spot as where he had recieved the note from Julia.
13.Winston had a dream in which brought up a memory of his mother and his sister. He remembered how selfish and mean he was, particularly when he stole the chocolate from his sister. He also realized that his mother was always so nice and caring to him, even if he acted terribly to her. He knew then that his mother always put him first no matter what, and he acted like he never cared.
14.Winston admitted to O'Brien that he was a criminal when it came to the Party. He confessed that he hated the party, that him and Julia had commited thought crime, and that they had commited adultery.
15. If you were a member of the brotherhood you were required to be willing to do anything to corrupt and destroy the Party. You had to leave you loved ones and live in darkness. If you got caught, then you were left with no help. Anything you were asked to do, you had to do it.
16. The thing that caused the big flurry of activity at the Ministry of Truth during hate week, was that they had to change who they were at war with in every single past document. They had to change everything from Eurasia to East Asia.
17."The Book" was made by Goldstein and it is a sort of manual that explained all the slogans and lies of the Party. It explained the reasons for war, and members were required to read it.
18. A totalitarianism regime is where the government rules and has control over all activities within the country. People living under a totalitarian regime generally also support it, thanks to propaganda missions which are designed to promote a positive view of the government. Citizens are also usually afraid to criticize the government, so they may be outspoken supporters to avoid closer scrutiny.
The concept of the totalitarian regime in political theory arose in the 20th century, and although there are a few examples of such governments which predate the 20th century, some of the most distinctive examples, such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, date to the 1900s. Communist governments such as those of China and North Korea are also sometimes accused of being totalitarian.
Just like in the novel, "1984", China is ruled by totalitarianism. The novel uses "Big Brother" as the Party leader, but in China it is Mao. All social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual activities were in some way controlled by Mao. Mao set many rules by which the people were to live by making China at the time, a totalitarianism state.Many Chinese by no means accepted rule from the Mao and many illegal secret societies were formed to try and weaken the government. This was also shown in the novel by the "brotherhood". This group called the brotherhood, was formed to try and weaken the government and go against the Party.
A major conflict between these societies and the government was the "Taiping" rebellion led by Hung Hsiu-Ch’uan. Tens of millions of peasants joined the Taiping armies. They took over most of Southern China and the capital, Nan king (now Nanjing). They would have defeated the government, but the west intervened and supplied the Government forces with arms and soldiers. They did not want China to become strong. The forces beat the Taiping very quickly in one of the largest mass slaughters in History. The Chinese had become convinced that the West was now invincible.
The novel, "1984" is similar to these other governments like China, in many ways. The government tried to control every single thing that the people did in their lives. Some people were convinced that the government was right and some people tried to rebel. As you see, the societies that tried to rebel, or tried "Taiping" were defeated, and most were killed.
1)Propaganda is a term used to describe an action that is supposed to change the thoughts and opinions of people, by presenting certain facts to the public. Propaganda is used in the novel many times. It surrounds Oceania on posters advertising the slogans of Big Brother and of the Party. The way propaganda is used in the novel 1984, is to make the people of Oceania that they don't really have freedom, or rights. The party slogans cleary state: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength. If you think about it, the Party is telling them, that we will kill to have peace for our Party, you are free under the ruling of the Party, and what you don't know about the party, is only good for you. Propaganda allows the Party to control what its' people think and say for the good of themselves. Considering anything other than what the Party thinks is illegal, or against the rules, there are no other propaganda posters set up in Oceania, which doesn't give the people much to choose from. Thus it is all they know, and all they agree with. Propaganda is used by the party to spread word of their slogans. The party slogans become part of the people of Oceania.
2)The Dark Haired Girl's message to Winston was written on a piece of paper. Her message to him was "I love you"
3) There were many problems that kept Winston from talking to the Dark Haired Girl. Some days people were too close to her, and in order for him to arrange a meeting he couldn't have them around. He patiently waited for a day that there were empty seats around her, and sat down. They scheduled a meeting, but made sure not to make eye contact.
4) The commotion in Victory Square was brought about when a truck of Eastasian prisoners passed. Party members and many other people stopped their daily events to scream at and torment the passing enemy.
5) Julia bought Winston a real piece of chocolate, which she purchased on the Black Market.
6) Their second meeting was planned to be in an old ruined church.
7) "Talking by Installments" is a term that is used when describing Winston and Julia's way of communication. When they were together and discussing things, sometimes they would have to stop talking because of the entrance of someone else. They would then pick up on the dropped conversation when they met the next time.
8) Julia had a simple view on life, but was a complex person. In order to live her life freely she would pretend to be for Big Brother and what it stood for, but on the inside she didn't like their rules, and at times would break them.
9) At first Winston seems like he wants to go against the party, but he only does so by rejecting them in a diary. Now he is breaking major rules, and going against the party in a more outspoken manner. It seems as if his meeting Julia, and their going against the party together, have made him enjoy his life a little more.
10) The Brotherhood is an organization, that goes against the party in any way possible. They go against party rules, to bring down Big Brother and all that it stands for.
11) Julia was a more "live in the moment" sort of person, where as Winston cared about the present, past, and future. This is a factor that differed in their beliefs about the party, and its' wrong doing. Julia only cared about breaking the rules when it came to them affecting her life in the now, and getting in her way, where as Winston cared about how the party was changing their lives, feeding them flase information, and leading them to believe they were living real lives.
12) Winston has his first conversation with O'Brien in the sam hallway where Julias gave him the message.
13) Winston's dreams brought back memories of how horrible he was when he was a child. He recalls taking chocolate, the only thing they ahd to eat, away from his baby sister, so he himself could eat it. He remembers treating his mother like he didn't love her at all, even though she would have done anything to see that he got everything he desired.
14) Winston told O'Brien that he hated the party, and that he broke rules to purposely go against them. He also admitted to having affairs with Julia.
15) If you were willing to be a member of the Brotherhood, you had to also be willing to sacrifice your life, the lives of others, your identity, and the ones you love.
16) During hate week, Oceania went to war with Eastasia. Because they were previously at war with Eurasia, The Ministry of Truth, had to go back and change all previous records that stated whom they were at war with.
17) "The Book" is a document, written by Goldstein, that all Brotherhood members must read. It introduces them to what the Party really has going on, and the wrong doings of their policies.
18) A totalitarian regime is a form of ruling that allows the ruler or leader to control all aspects of public and private behaviors. The policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party were like the policies that the Party of Oceania had. Both parties tried to form their people into the "perfect" supporters. In other words, if you did not believe in what they had to say, you were going to die. In the book 1984, you were "vaporized", or basically canceled out of existence, if you went against their so called "rules". The German party also killed of million of people simply because they were different than themselves. Each party tried to make their states follow the rules that they enforced, and in order to see that they were followed, Big Brother placed a "telescreen" on every corner and in every living space. The German party had their own version of keeping lives under watch by putting everyone who was an "alien", according to Hitler, in a "camp", where most of them were later killed. Both the Party in 1984, and the Totalitarian regime, that Hitler followed, had the same ideas of keeping people "in line". If you were thought of as a suspect, or weren't thought of as equal, or thought of as a threat to either Party, you were killed. Each of the two Party's rules aren't for the bettering of the people, but they are meant to keep secrets hidden well, and to lie about everything in order to sure safety of the party. When taking jews to "work camps" they would take them into gas chambers, stating that they were only going to be showered down. Each party promoted the lying and killing of anyone that stood in their way. Each party took public and private rights away from their citizens.
1. Propaganda has been used for many years, especial in times of
War. Propaganda is used to persuade one into thinking a certain way, to join a cause, or simply what the world may come to. Propaganda is expressed on poster and fliers, or by words that are spoken, which is used today.
The use of propaganda is more popular in time of war. During World War 1 and World War 2, they used propaganda to persuade people into joining to army. For example the poster with Uncle Sam’s slogan “I Want You.” The poster was used emphasize men to enlist so they can protect their country. Propaganda is used a lot in times of war or major conflicts. Each side is using propaganda to persuade you into thinking their way.
Today we see propaganda as well, but not only in times of war. We see propaganda to express cause, such as breast cancer, beliefs, political views, to protect the earth and so on. Today’s propaganda is not only expressed on posters; we see it on billboards, television, and media coverage and even on clothes.
In 1984, you see propaganda several times. It plays a huge roll in the novel. The posters in the novel express the Party’s views, their used to manipulate the people of Oceania to thinking their way. In 1984, there are posters all of Oceania of Big Brother and his slogan, “Big Brother Is Watching”. The slogan reminds people every minute that they are being watch, and they are not able to do anything about it. Two minute of hate is also a form of propaganda. Its shows people the Party’s side of war, and the bad things war criminals have done. It forces them to be patriotic in a way.
Propaganda will always be used in life, but they ways of expressing will constantly change.
2. The dark-haired girl handed Winston a note while he helped her up. The message was, “I love you.”
3. Winston tried for several days to talk to the girl alone. In the canteen, where they ate, he tried to sit with her but every time somebody would call his name or somebody will sit with her before he got a chance. Finally he got her alone, and they were able to arrange their meeting, without looking at each other and talking very quietly
4. The commotion in Victory Square was a caravan of prisoners being brought through town. The people were excited to see this so they surrounded the road and began shouting.
5. Julia gave him a piece of real chocolate that she got from the black market.
6. Their second meeting was planned at the belfry at the ruined church. It was located in the deserted part of the country, when an atomic bomb hit 30 years earlier.
7. Talking in installments was Julia and Winston’s way of communicating between their meetings, and also so they could plan their next meeting place. They did this when passing in the street or walking beside one another.
8. Julia believed that life was just surviving as long as you can. All she wanted to do was have fun. She was the perfect party member on the outside, but really she did everything she could to disobey the Party.
9. The changes in Winston’s life are not severe. In the beginning of the novel he broke the law by writing in his diary. Now he found Julia and they break as many rules possible, especial by sleeping together.
10.The Brotherhood is the people that are against the Party. They work together secretly to bring the Party down. They do everything they can to bring them down.
11. Julia didn’t understand the party and she didn’t want to. All she wanted to do was break the rules because she didn’t like them. Winston understand how much their rules affect him.
12. Winston first talked to O’Brian in the same hallway at the ministry where he received the note from Julia.
13. Winston’s dream brings up one of the last memories he has of his mom and little sisters. He saw that no matter what, his mom loved him and gave her life for him. In this dream his mom gave him everything he wanted even if hurt her or his little sister.
14. Winston told him that he hated the Party and would do anything to bring them told. He admitted that he and Julia were adulterers and guilty of thoughtcrime.
15. When you’re a member of the Brotherhood, you had to be willing to do absolutely anything. You had to be willing to kill, commit suicide, black mail, change your appearance, or die to be free. You were cut from the ones you loved.
16. During hate week the changed who they were at war with. They had to change every document from Eurasia to Eastasia.
17.“The Book” is the manual of principle that all Brotherhood members must read. The book explains everything about the party and its motives.
18. Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all societal resources are monopolized by the state in an effect to penetrate and control all aspects of public and private life, though the state’s use of propaganda, terror, and technology. George Orwell’s novel 1984 is a great example of totalitarian dictatorship. Another example of one totalitarian regime would be that of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s. Hitler mass murdered millions of Jews. The people that worked under Hitler never knew they were going to be killed later. They knew the Jews were being taken to Concentration camps but never knew that every single Jew there was being killed. In 1984, people of Oceania disappeared or vanished when they were caught committing a thoughtcrime. Big Brother would erase their records, to make it seem like they never existed. In 1984, Big Brother ruled the totalitarian regime known in the book as Ingsoc. Big Brother and the Party controlled all. They controlled what they did, what they said, the resources, and even what they thought. They’re whole entire like was control by the Party. This is similar to Hitler’s rule. Hitler controlled the people, and tortured the ones he hated. In this case, especial the Jewish people. He controlled everything Big Brother did in 1984. Although they are similar in how they controlled people. Hitler only controlled a certain group, the Jews, Big Brother and the Party controlled everybody. The Party wanted to gain power and all Hitler wanted to do was kill. Another difference you see, is that Big Brother and the Party changed history to follow the beliefs and what was happening at the time. Hitler never did this, they did not have the resources they needed to do this. In 1984, the past didn’t really matter. Both totalitarian regimes destroy people. If not physically but mentally. Though they had difference both Hitler and the Party did things to get power and to control all.
1.)Propaganda is a type of style to persuade someone or a group of people to believe in a certain way to look at a point or to scare people into a certain way, it is mainly about government or the war and it has been use for many years and is still a way of advertising an idea but, the years that it was strongly regarded was the World War 1 and World War 2 era most ways they used propaganda around that time was posters they tried to get the American people to buy war bonds or to support the war in anyway possible and on the other hand Hitler used propaganda to gain power from the people and to brainwash the people to hate the Jews in Europe. Its very easy to use propaganda you can put in on a poster, flyer, tv, billboard, and internet.
Propaganda plays a very important role in the book called 1984 the poster says “big brother is watching you” it’s a simple message but it is a very strong message. It reminds the townspeople that they have no freedom because big brother will always be watching them no matter where they are at and that along with the telescreen made there life horrible . On another poster is says “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” that means the people should give up some of there freedoms to be safe and the less you know is the better. That is how the party used propaganda in there power against the people of Oceania
2.)The message just said “I love you” on a piece of paper
3.)He solved his problem one day at lunch when he saw her alone and tripped a dude going to the same table as her.
4.)The commotion was from the prisoners from Eurasia going by
5.)The gift that she brought Winston was a chocolate bar that she bought from the black market
6.)Winston and Julia had the 2nd meeting at the old ruined church
7.)talking by installment was when they meet but when they was in danger of being over heard they would even it and pick up another time right where they left off previously
8.)Julia viewed life to have as much fun as possible and she thought if any rules were in her way from keeping her from having a good time she had to break them.
9.)The changes that taken place in Winston is he has a reason not to give up because of Julia and in the first part of the book he didn’t like the party but was scared to stand up but now he hates them with everything in him
10.)The brotherhood is created by Goldstein and it’s a breakout group against the party
11.)She really didn’t understand what the party was for but she just loved doing the opposite that the party told her to do
12.)They was in front of the screen almost in the spot that he got his 1st note from Julie
13.)His dream brought him back to the time when he stole some food from his sister and he also took candy from her
14.)He told O’Brian that he had affairs with Julia he also told O’Brian that he hated the party and he broke the rules because he did not like the party
15.)Being a member was very hard because if you was caught you were not aloud to rat on other members, you had to change your identity and if you was caught the party would kill you
16.)The flurry was they went to war with the wrong country the records was about Eurasin but they went to war with eastasia and the party made the ministry of truth change the records
17.)It’s a book that Goldstein wrote and all the brotherhood members must read, it was about what the party and what they was doing wrong
18.)Government control of all activities within a country, openly political or otherwise, as in fascist or communist dictatorships what that is saying is one person or a certain group of people had complete control of the government and how they think it should be ran is how it when. A good example of this alike the party of 1894 is Adolf Hitler during his powerful run in the government. He like the big brother party ran dictatorship the people in Europe like Oceania had no voice and when they did they would be killed.
The way the people were treated in the novel 1984 was not as bad as the Jewish people during Hitler’s dictatorship but they where always told what to do and was always watched either in concentration camps or watched like they was in the book by a telescreen another way they both controlled was they bother had people walk in the streets to patrol.
Like the book 1894 they had classified groups from rich, middle class, and poor but when the Jews was in the camps they had them classified if they was a girl they would be in the killed group, is they was old they would be used as much as possible then sent off to be killed, but if they was young and strong they had to stay and work without the right conditions.
Like Hitler the big brother party would go to war with any country to gain control. Hitler wanted to control the whole world so he brainwashed the people of Europe to help him do so. Like the book the party wanted complete control they go as far as changing the records to make it seem like what they always did was the right thing.
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Propaganda is the attempt at influencing the opinions of others and also to change the behaviors of people around you. Propaganda is to try and stretch ones imagination and mold it until they can understand what you’re trying to get a crossed. It can be associated with passion because you need passion to persuade somebody. It can be a range of ideas from rumors, movement, nation and institution.
During history it has been used during political campaigns. The Germans use it when they found out that it could play an important role in life and a political campaign. They can persuade people to vote for their candidate by using propaganda posters.
Propaganda has played an important role in the novel. It has been used when they have the posters of big brother hanging everywhere in Oceania. There trying to get a crossed that he is the superior to everyone else that they shouldn’t defy Big Brother or you’ll get vaporized for your actions and erased from history like you never even existed. The posters can help people and or intimidate people because it makes it seem like Big Brother is watching you, everywhere you go, what you do.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The dark-haired girls message to Winston was I love you. She had wrote it on a piece of paper and slipped it into his hand while he was helping her up.
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
Winston decided to meet the dark-haired girl in the canteen before she was surrounded by other girls.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The commotion in Victory Square was caused by a passing of Eurasia prisoners,
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Julia got her first get for Winston from the black market. She got him a piece of chocolate.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
The second meeting they planned out was at an old church in the country.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
“Talking by installments” was there way of communicating with each other. It’s basically picking up where they departed.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia’s view on life was surviving as long as you can and having a good time by breaking the party’s laws.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Winston’s changes in his life are, that he’s breaking as many rules as he can when he meets Julia. Winston at first just broke the rule’s by writing in a diary but after meeting her, he wants to bring the party down.
10. What is the brotherhood?
The brotherhood is people against the party. They don’t know how many numbers are in the party or can recognize them by site. They might have to commit suicide, deceive children or even get a different face if need be.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia didn’t care about the party or their rules but she understood it. She likes to break the rules, she could care less about them.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Winston first spoke with O’Brien where him and Julia first spoke to each other and also where Julia slipped the note into Winston’s hand.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
Winston’s memories brought up the fact that he didn’t kill his mother, even though he thought he had done so, he didn’t.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Winston’s admissions he made to O’Brien were that he hated the party and him and Julia were thought criminals and against the party.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
The difficulties of being a member of the brotherhood was that they might have to kill someone, betray their country, lose of identity and suicide.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
The party changes who there at war with. They were at war with Eurasia but now it is Eastasia
17. What is "the book"?
“the book” is a book that explains the nature of the brotherhood and the society they live in. the book also tells what there fighting for and their strategy.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
A totalitarian regime is a form of government, people are controlled by this government. They tell you what to do and how to do it, just like the people living in Oceania, the party tells you what to do and what not to do or you’ll get vaporized. Hitler’s regime was very similar to that of Oceania’s. Hitler tried to control everything and everyone. He didn’t care about people getting hurt as long as he can control them and everything around them and he would be more than willing to kill you if they defied him.
Even though Oceania’s party and Hitler’s regime are similar they are also very different. Oceania’s party wanted to control everybody, their emotions, thoughts and even their words. The party wants to gain power. Hitler however just wanted to destroy the Jews, he didn’t want to control them he wanted to get rid of them. He too also wanted power over people.
Book 2 Questions
Amanda Harris
11/20/08
Parsons 3rd period
1) What is propaganda? Propaganda is the information, rumors, or ideas that are being spread to harm or help a person, nation, place, or group. Posters can spread propaganda; they can be spread by newspaper, or they can even be spread with the help of the human mouth. Whenever you gossip about something or someone you are spreading propaganda. This is not always a bad thing, as the definition stated propaganda can also help groups, nations, and people. Propaganda is used very often in the novel “1984” which was written by George Orwell. Although, I would not say that the use of propaganda helped many people. I believe that the only person that was affected in a good way by the propaganda being spread throughout Oceania was Big Brother. And of coarse they were the ones who enforced it, and they are the ones who are creating the information given. They have placed posters on every wall of every building stating that ‘Big Brother is watching.’ They have created the pictures on the posters to seem like everywhere you go the eyes follow. That is a good way to make people think that Big Brother really is watching all of the time through those eyes on the posters, it makes the towns people nervous, and it makes them watch very carefully about what they do. That in turn helps the government known as Big Brother because that lessens the conflicts that they have to deal with, at least until someone messes up. Then, you get vaporized. Propaganda is also on the telescreens that the townspeople of Oceania have in their houses. The things that the government shows about the wars and Goldstein are the type of propaganda that is bad and harmful. Sure, it is not harmful to them, but it is harmful to Goldstein. This kind of propaganda makes the townspeople despise Goldstein, and makes them his enemy. And that is what big brother is looking for, that is what they want.
2) The dark haired girl in the story gave Winston a note that said. “I love you.”
3) They made very many attempts to meet with each other. Once when they met while they were eating Winston tried to go over and sit with her, but people would call his name or beat him to her table. When they did get to talk, they did not look at each other or draw attention. Everyone’s attention was focused on the prisoners that were being brought in.
4) The thing that was causing all of the commotion in town was the parade of prisoners that were being brought into town. The town’s people all gathered around so they could watch and yell at the new coming people.
5) Julia received her first gift for Winston from the black market. It was a piece of chocolate.
6) The second time that they met and actually got to spend time together was when they met at the belfry at the ruined church. That was were a bomb hit about 30 years before.
7) Taking installments was Winston and Julia was of communicating before there meetings. That was also where they planned there next meetings, like when and where.
8) Julia’s look on life was that you had to have as much fun as possible. And that was what she planned to do, was have fun. People saw her on the outside and she deceived them all, making them think that she was the perfect party member. When really she lived to disobey them.
9) Winston is a follower. I think, at first he was thinking about breaking the rules and did so by buying the diary. But, now since he met that woman all he does is break the rules.
10) The brotherhood is like an anti-party club. They cannot stand Big Brother and they will do anything to bring them down.
11) Winston knew how the party’s rules affected him. But, Julia didn’t. And she didn’t want to. She had no intention of learning or understanding the party, she only wanted to disobey them and breaks rules in spite of them.
12) Winston’s first verbal encounter with O’Brien was when they were in the same hallway at he ministry where they worked. That was also the day that Winston received his letter from Julia.
13) In his dream Winston brought up memories of his mother and his sister. He then realized that no matter what his mother was going to give him everything, even if it meant her own life.
14) O’Brien quickly became Winston’s priest in the matter of confessing his sins to him. He told him that Julia and he were adulterers meaning that they were sleeping with one another. And that they had committed thought crime more than once. And that he hated Big Brother.
15) While you were a part of Big Brother you had to be willing to sacrifice anything. Even if that included your life, or someone you loved lives. You were their slaves and you had to be willing to do all of those things or be ready to die.
16) They had to changed everything, including who they were at war with. And every document that they possessed had to be changed.
17) The book is like the bible for Big Brother. In it it explains the motives for what they do and how they do it. I guess you could actually call it a diary as well. But, every party member was made to read it.
18) Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all societal resources are monopolized by the state in an effect to penetrate and control all aspects of public and private life, though the state’s use of propaganda, terror, and technology. And “1984” a novel written by George Orwell shows Totalitarianism dictatorship extremely well. Whenever you made a mistake or committed a crime in Oceania you were vaporized. No questions about it, the Big Brother did not want to take any chances. If that happened to a person there would be no record of their existence, because it would be wiped clean. The government rules all. They rule what you say, what you think, what you do, even what you eat. You are there puppets and they are your masters. That is how it goes.
1. Propaganda is “information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.” Throughout history, propaganda has been used to influence ways of life, convince, or promote ideas. It can take forms of posters, fliers, billboards, newspapers, magazines, commercials, or radio broadcasts. During World War II, posters were used to show a twisted side of the war. It may be used to scare citizens, as depicted in posters from the World War II demonizing the enemy, Adolf Hitler. Or it may be used in motivating, as in “Uncle Sam wants you for the U.S. Army!” used to recruit American citizens to fight in the war. Even today, propaganda is used, such as in the 2008 presidential election with Obama’s “Change we can believe in,” or McCain’s “Country first.”
Propaganda is used to motivate, scare, convince, influence, or manipulate people. In 1984, the citizens of Oceania were scared and manipulated into following Big Brother through propaganda processes. The posters, which read, “Big Brother is watching you,” “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength,” are constant reminders that they are to obey, and that Big Brother controls everything and is an omnipresent power. Propaganda in the novel is a means of transporting the ideas and philosophy that Big Brother holds to the people.
Propaganda will continue to be used, as it is an excellent source of expressing ideas and convincing citizens. Although forms, audiences, and messages will change, the general principles will remain, and people will constantly have decisions and thoughts influenced by propaganda.
2. While passing Winston, the dark haired girl trips. When Winston helps her up, she presses a slip of paper into his hand. Later, he carefully opens the paper. The message says, “I Love You.” Winston is shocked and flattered, and secretly plans getting in touch with her.
3. After several days, Winston finally comes to a situation where he can confront the dark haired girl. One day, he takes care to arrive early at the canteen. A small “beetle-like man” heads for her table, leaving the only available spot an empty table across the room. Winston trips him, and seats himself at the dark-haired girl’s table. They murmur a meeting time in Victory Square, and then immediately return to silence.
4. In Victory Square, a caravan of Eurasian prisoners passes. Winston describes, “The trucks were still filing past, the people still insatiably gaping. At the start there had been a few boos and hissed, but it came only from the Party members, and had soon stopped. The prevailing emotion was simply curiosity. Foreigners, whether from Eurasia or from Eastasia, were a kind of strange animal,” (page 102). The citizens of Oceania were both fascinated by the foreigners, prisoner or not, and the commotion was on behalf of their hate for the enemy.
5. At their first meeting in the meadow, Julia brought along a piece of chocolate. “Even before he had taken it he knew by the smell that it was very unusual chocolate. It was dark and shiny, and it was wrapped in silver paper. Chocolate normally was dull brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire,” (page 107). The chocolate that Julia had given him was from the black market.
6. Since hideouts could not be used more than a few times, Julia came up with another hiding place. The next meeting was to take place in “the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier,” (page 113).
7. Talking by installments is something Winston and Julia had become accustomed to. When walking, they might have to stop their conversation abruptly, because of a Party member, a telescreen, or anything else that could put them in danger. They would then return to the discussion, exactly where they had left off, even so much as in the middle of a sentence.
8. On the surface Julia was the perfect Party member: an active member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, a handpicked employee of the Pornosec subsection of the Ministry of Truth, and for all things Big Brother. However, beginning when she was sixteen, she had committed numerous love affairs. She was against organized Party revolt, but did in her own way. She believed in staying alive as long as possible, and in the meanwhile breaking all the rules that she could.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Throughout the novel, Winston has evolved into an enemy of the Party. Instead of his original acceptance to the Party, he is now adamantly against it. He has committed several acts of Thoughtcrime, by writing in his journal, buying antiques, having secret rendezvous with Julia, and renting the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop. He is now a member of the brotherhood as well.
10. The brotherhood is thought to be a secret, underground group of those against Big Brother. It is headed by Emmanuel Goldstein. The exact number of brotherhood members is hard to determine, as it is quite mysterious: “You will never learn much more about the brotherhood than it exists and that you belong to it,” (page 152). The duties of these members is unknown, but as O’Brien tells them, they must be prepared to do absolutely anything, including murder innocent people, purposely spread disease, sabotage, cheat, steal, forge, and even give their own lives.
11. Julia believed that what was in the past was in the past, and did not understand why Winston was so worried about the government changing histories. She was not concerned with how or why the Party ran the way it did. She was more concerned in defying the Party her way, and breaking rules whenever she felt it necessary.
12. Winston first spoke with O’Brien in the hallway, at almost the same point the meeting with Julia had occurred. He compliments Winston’s use of Newspeak in his writing and offers him the new edition dictionary. He gives him his address, and tells him to come pick it up sometime. All the while, the two men have been in front of a telescreen, something Winston interprets as no fear from O’Brien, and further reinforces his theory that O’Brien is a conspirator against the Party.
13. Winston dreamed that his entire life stretched out before him, and took place inside the tiny glass paperweight he bought from Mr. Charrington’s shop. In this dream, a woman made a gesture of shielding her child under her arm. The dream brought back memories of Winston’s childhood. He tells Julia that up until that moment he believed he had murdered his mother. As a teenage boy, he was always hungry and like many other households, there was never enough to eat. He was greedy and selfish, always expecting and sometimes even stealing portions from his mother and sister, and acting erratically when he did not get the food he had demanded. One particular incident occurred when a chocolate ration was issued. There was one tiny morsel of chocolate, and of course Winston wanted the entire portion. His mother tried to divide it so that Winston received three-quarters and his sickly sister received a quarter. Instead, he snatched the poor girl’s precious section of chocolate, and ran away. When he returned to the house hours later, his mother and sister were gone, presumably to forced-labor camps, never to be seen again.
14. Winston admitted the following to O’Brien, “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready,” (page 150).
15. Being a member of the brotherhood took a great deal of secrecy. Members also had to be willing to do anything at any time, including, committing suicide, changing your own identity, committing murder, committing murder of thousands of innocent people, acts of sabotage, betraying the country to foreign enemies, cheating, forgery, blackmailing, drug dealing, encouraging prostitution, and purposely spreading viral diseases. Brotherhood members were to do anything, no matter how extreme, in order to weaken or destroy the party. They may not always know the reasoning, or who is behind the acts, but they will follow if that is what it takes.
16. During hate week, Oceania had waged a war with Eastasia rather than Eurasia. The Ministry of Truth had to change all past records to correct things. All history that said Oceania had ever been at war with Eastasia rather than Eurasia had to be destroyed and changed to back up the Party and their claims that Oceania and Eastasia had always been at war.
17. The book is a manual that all new brotherhood members must read. In it, the lies of the Party are exposed, and it attempts to tell the true history of Oceania. It is very hard to produce, as they are destroyed almost as soon as they are made. Winston receives his book in a secret exchange in which a brotherhood member tells him he dropped his briefcase and hands him a new one, with the book inside.
18. Totalitarianism is a form of government in which the state controls nearly every aspect of public and private life. In the novel 1984, Big Brother controlled the economy, occupations, healthcare, exercise, what kind of food was served, food rations, housing, clothing, what was read, listened to, and watched. In this type of government, individuals have their basic freedoms and rights stripped away.
Another example of this totalitarianism regime would be Nazi Germany under the control of Adolf Hitler. Under his rule, the Jewish people were to be eliminated. They were sent to concentration camp, brutally murdered, tortured, and inflicted various other forms of punishment, simply because Hitler felt the people of the Jewish religion were weak, and could not contribute to his perfect race he had in mind. In the novel, people can simply disappear, or be vaporized for even the slightest thought against Big Brother (which further goes back to the point that the government controls every aspect of life in which a person cannot even have a private thought to themselves). For various acts of Thoughtcrime, or criminal acts, people can be tortured, starved, hung, drowned, or other horrendous acts of violence, which are seen as acceptable by the government.
Control of those beneath them was a common factor of both Big Brother and Adolf Hitler. Mind control tactics, propaganda, threats, and force were used to enlist the citizens to their cause. In 1984, the Inner and Outer Party worked directly for Big Brother, changing histories, producing identical items to be distributed to all Oceania, and torturing victims. In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler had the citizens beneath him either acting as Nazis and soldiers, producing supplies for the war, or just accepting and embracing Nazism and the war that resulted from it.
Totalitarianism is an ineffective means of running a country, as well as an unfair, unjust way to treat the citizens. Within totalitarianism government, liberties, rights, and freedoms are stripped away, and with that a sense of individuality is taken with that. Although the government may be promising a safer country and whatnot, in all actuality, all that is produced is an unfair and unproductive society headed by a pompous head figure and followed by their many naïve, brainwashed citizens.
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Book II answers
1. Propaganda is the circulation of information used to influence the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. Propaganda uses moving or incriminating words, pictures and slogans to changes people's perspectives on subjects or influence them to make a certain imposed action. Propaganda sometimes, only presents selective facts and exaggerated claims in order to best present their message, idea, or desired resulting action. In the Russian revolution, the cold war, the Iraq war, and in every event since people's interest in information began propaganda has been in play. Propaganda was used even ancient times to assist in many ruler's rise to power. Propaganda is found everywhere in the book 1984. It shown obviously the party's slogans and the poster of big brother, but there are many others as well. The 'Victory' products for example, the "victory" implies pleasure and winning when everything the party allows to the outer party and proles is quite the opposite. Not only that but there are: the coins, the stamps, the telescreen messages, the names of ministries, and of course Winston's job. Winston's job is all about propaganda, his main function is to erase all information that although is true, may diminish the party's all-powerful and all-knowing appearance. Propaganda seems to be an ever-present part of our lives, whether we want it to be or not. It will always be there and always in great use.
2. The dark-haired girl’s message to Winston said, “I love you.”
3. To speak to the girl Winston knew he would have to catch the girl at a nearly empty table in the canteen, but after a few days of fruitless effort he ends up tripping a rather peculiar man so that he could get a seat next to her. Having accomplished his initial goal they set up another secret meeting discreetly so that neither the other people nor the telescreens would see anything suspicious.
4. The disruption in victory square formed when a mob of people excitedly rushed over to see a passing convoy of Eurasian prisoners.
5. Julia’s first present for Winston was a piece of real chocolate bought off the black market. This was significant because the only chocolate the party rationed was repulsive and fake.
6. Julia and Winston’s second meet was planned to take place in the belfry of a ruined church.
7. “Talking by installments” was the way Winston referred to how he and Julia communicated. Without the common freedom of being able to sit down with one another and hold a conversation and even lacking the ability to come to a proper ending at most time on the streets and in the canteen, they had to pick back up on their previous conversation the next time they had the chance.
8. Julia’s outtake on life was that of one who really just cares about herself. She puts on a mask on the outside to protect herself from the party then turns around and does what she really wants to when no one is looking. She has no interest in defying and degrading the party more then only what applies to her, and just wants to stay alive and live the life she want to along as she can.
9. Winston’s life has taken an almost 180 degree turn, starting with his obsession with rouge anti-party ways to his new found appreciation for life in general. His physical health is gaining and he no longer relies on alcohol. Winston’s life seems to be becoming one that is near perfect in the world of Oceania, or at least up until the moment that Mr. Charrington reveals himself for what he truly is.
10. The Brotherhood is a sort of rebel alliance that is headed by Goldstein. It is heavily disputed in the novel weather or not the brotherhood even actually exists. The brother goal and focus is to slowly but surely take down and eventually destroy the party altogether.
11. Julia seemed to be only interested in what touched her life. She didn’t care how the party affected other people and even more the future. She didn’t seem to mind either that the part was feeding her lies and she believed them.
12. Winston first spoke with O’Brien in the hallway. He was purposely standing directly in front a telescreen.
13. Winston’s Dream brought up a memory from the time when he was still a child. He remembers longing for food and demanding more from his mother. He evens tells of a time he stole chocolate from the hands of his baby sister. He ran off after it possible to escape the chaos he had stirred up only to return to an empty house, with his mother and sister nowhere to be found.
14. Winston tells O’Brien that both he and Julia hated the party and have broken many laws. He also states that both of them are completely willing to do anything for the Brotherhood in honor of bringing down The Party.
15. Being a member of the party meant that you would have to be willing to do anything for the brotherhood, including murder, suicide, changing your appearance, and risking your life at all times all without ever knowing more than just a few faces and names of people who are allegedly part of the brotherhood. You will never know more than a few people therefore you can never be sure what your being told is true or even if Goldstein or any other party members are ordering this or are even alive. Also, if you are caught there is no chance of anyone from the brotherhood trying to help you.
16. The great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week was caused when the Party suddenly changed who they are at war with. With all posters, books, newspapers, magazines, articles, and movies for the entire past including the war with Eurasia, everything had to be changed to cover up the fact that the party had been wrong and conflicting to the way they are now.
17. The book is a manual of sorts for the brotherhood written by Goldstein. It has been read by every member of the brotherhood and has been nearly memorized so that even if every copy is destroyed by the party it can still be rewritten easily.
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5.) Julia gave Winston many ‘gifts’ if you know what I mean. The most amazing and unusual gift Julia gave to Winston was the piece of real chocolate, which could be found know where but the black market. Winston received this gift in the hiding place or the top unknown about room in Mr. Charrington’s shop.
6.) Winston and Julia met several times. The place they met and planned to meet again at was what I viewed as somewhat of a park where nobody would ever think to look for them. There was no telescreens. They planned to meet in the poor spot of town next to the marketing areas.
7.) Talking installments can mean a few things. In this novel Winston and Julia meant that they would have to start conversations in one hiding place on one day and then pick up where they left off in a completely different place and time. They had to do this so the Party and others would not grow suspicious of too much interaction between the two. When one person walked by with a suspicious look they knew they must depart from each other.
8.) Julia felt that life was like ‘acunamatada’ of the Lion King. She had no worries besides for her and Winston to depart and never see each other again. She viewed life as they were already dead. She just wanted to have fun. All Julia wanted to do in life was survive for as long as possible and take down the party while disobeying their every command.
9.) Many changes have occurred in Winston’s life since he was first viewed in the novel, although they were not major ones. In the beginning he tried never to break the rules. He tried to always do the right thing especially in front of the telescreens. Winston was always afraid of being taken out of existence. When he met Julia, I mean really met her; he became more carefree. He always wanted to break the rules of the Party. He fell in love with her and that was the only thing that truly changed him besides discovering the Brotherhood was real and joining it.
10.) The Brotherhood was first an organization that to Winston ceased to exist. The Brotherhood he soon found out was a real organization with the leader being Mr. Goldstein, the man on the two minutes of hate broadcasts. In the Brotherhood if you were a member in trouble no one would come to your rescue. All members are willing to do anything to stop the government whether it be throwing sulfuric acid into a child’s face, to changing your total physical appearance, all the way to suicide.
11.) Julia brought Winston to the realization of several things. The most important was making him realize that understanding the party was key. From there they had the same understanding on everything until it came to Winston’s meeting with O’Brien. When they were joining the Brotherhood and agreeing to everything they must to gain membership Julia said that her and Winston could never leave each other never to meet again. I feel that Winston would do anything including that to take down the party. That was their misunderstanding.
12.) Winston technically spoke to O’Brien first inside his dreams. In real life Winston spoke to him almost exactly where he received the ‘I Love You’ not from Julia. Then they arranged for him to go to his apartment and supposedly pick up a next year’s version of newspeak, when they really spoke of the Brotherhood.
13.) Winston dream brought up memories of his mother. These were memories when he believed that he had killed his mother by being a totally intolerant child. He remembered how his mother was being especially nice to his sister and he knew something was wrong. Winston regretted eating ten times more than all of his family members ate combined. Then there was the chocolate incident. This was where his mother had a chocolate bar and split it between his sister and him and he stole his sisters and ran out the door. His last memory was when he returned his mother and sister were both gone. Nothing was out of place except for his family. He later realized they had been taken to labor camps.
14.) Winston made his admissions to O’Brien when they were meeting is his apartment, while the telescreens was off and Julia and the Asian servant were present. He told O’Brien that he believed the Brotherhood existed and that O’Brien was part of it. Winston also confesses his and Julia’s act against the party and hopes that he may become part of the great Brotherhood.
15.) There were many difficulties in becoming a member of the Brotherhood. You had to be willing to do anything to stop the government. Whatever you were told to do you must. For examples: Committing suicide, changing physical appearances, homicides, and hurting or killing innocent bystanders that may go blabbing. The worst one for Winston, well mostly for Julia, was splitting up and never seeing each other again.
16.) Hate week in the Ministry of Truth was greatly messed with because they all had to get to work and redo many things, mostly writings that had been written of lies. It became know that all this time they were in war with Eastasia as before and not the foretold Eurasia. The Ministry of Truth had to delete all documents ever speaking of war with Eurasia so that none could ever be found. Many signs supposedly posted by the Brotherhood of propaganda had to be torn down in Victory Square also saying of a war with Eurasia.
17.) The book was the book given to Winston by O’Brien. It was the book that all members of the Brotherhood were given and had fourteen days to read. After reading this and memorizing it they were official members of the Brotherhood. This book was given to Winston in Victory Square during a fracas inside a suitcase. Winston was told to leave his suitcase at home. He was given a duplicate by an unknown man, whom he didn’t look at but whom told him “I believe you have dropped your suitcase sir.”
18.) The totalitarian regime I chose was shown threw Adulf Hitler. Totalitarian is basically an opinion that is strongly believed in and that is forced onto others for them to believe the same. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany whose ultimate goal was to take over the world. He wanted everything his way and what he said happened automatically. The regime I chose was when he tried to have all of the dark-haired and dark-eyed people who were mainly Jews all murdered. He wanted bascially one race and he believed that blonde people with blue eyes were the only perfect people. Adolf Hitler used concept to convince people through a political system that his ideas were the correct ones. Through these convincing thoughts and ideas he maintained political power of Germany and moved onward into other countries with his beliefs. He also maintained himself in political power by means of ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state controlled mass media, the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, and there was widespread use of terror tactics. These terro tactics were you did something wrong you are killed, also if you were a Jew you were killed if deemed unhealthy; unless you were found essential in working and making useful things for the army and war efforts. If a Jew was deemed healthy they were sent to labor camps where they were treated more horribly than we could ever imagine. This relates to the novel 1984 because Adolf Hitler is like the Party and the government. They are both completely controlling and if you do not have it their way you become terminated and unexistent. They both also believed that their way was the only right way through anything and if you were a person who messed with that or tryed to change other peoples' views you were murdered. There were many other totalitarian regimes I could have chosen, but this one was the most interesting to me and the one that I found related mostly to the novel.
1) Propaganda is a way to manipulate people into believing, or following, what a specific person or leader wants them too. With things such as posters and banners, ideas can be conveyed and understood by the people reading them. Propaganda posters or banners usually include a picture and/or a small caption, which is easily understood by the viewer.
Propaganda is more commonly used during times of war or struggle in a country to get people motivated into helping out to the cause. It may be used to get people inspired to help out with the war, to attend a certain event, or to raise money for a certain cause. Propaganda may also be used in a negative way. Wrong and misleading ideas may also be conveyed through propaganda. Leaders such as Hitler and Stalin used propaganda techniques to gain followers and supporters by scaring them into agreeing with their cruel and brutal ideas.
Propaganda has been used in American history and those ideas are very common to us. The most famous American propaganda poster is a picture of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer and a caption reading, “I Want You.” This poster was trying to recruit people to our U.S. army. Today, these techniques are not as common as before. Nowadays we use devices in speech and the media to influence people to believe certain ideas.
In the novel ‘1984,’ we see propaganda controlling Winston Smith’s life. With pictures of Big Brother and the caption, “Big Brother is Watching You,” Winston cannot live a life of his own. With these posters everywhere, the idea of even thinking against the government becomes obsolete. The citizens of Oceania are scared into obeying the government because the posters make them believe that the government can be watching at any given point in time.
Propaganda techniques have been used for centuries. They motivate people or trick them into believing what others want them to. As propaganda ideas become fewer in today’s society, different techniques will be approached.
2) The dark-haired girl falls while Winston is in front of her. She asks for help up, and then slips a note into Winston’s hand. Winston finally opens the note and it simply says, “I love you.”
3) Winston tried repeatedly to meet with the dark-haired girl to talk about the note. He tries to set with her at lunch in the canteen but fails to do so repeatedly because she is never alone. Finally Winston sees her alone and sets down beside her. They make their plan to meet without looking at each other to make it less obvious.
4) In Victory Square, a caravan of Eastasian prisoners was brought through. This was a rare site to the citizens of Oceania. They expressed their hate to the prisoners, like done during the Two Minutes Hate.
5) Julia’s first gift to Winston is just a small slab of chocolate. Winston describes the chocolate he is used to getting as ‘dull-brown crumby stuff.’ Julia obtains this genuine chocolate on the black market.
6) The second meeting was to have taken place at a ruined church. This church was located in an almost deserted stretch of country because an atomic bomb had fallen here.
7) “Talking by installments” was Winston and Julia’s way of communicating. Sometimes while they were talking, their conversation would be stopped abruptly due to a passing party member. They would have to continue their conversation, where they left off, minuets later or even days later. This is what Julia means by “Talking by installments.”
8) Once Julia and Winston got together as thought criminals, they lived life to the fullest. On the outside, Julia portrayed to be loyal and a dedicated Party member. On the inside, she was against the party. She loved things that the party resented such as sex,
9) In the beginning of the novel, Winston Smith was a character that seemed to be loyal to the Party on the outside, but against them on the inside. As the novel unfolds, we see him acting out against the party. Due to his growing hatred for Big Brother, he has done acts such as sex with Julia, meeting her and discussing the government, renting the room from Mr.Charrington, and, most of all, getting Goldstein’s book about the brotherhood.
10) The brotherhood is a group of citizens in Oceania that hate Big Brother lead by Emmanuel Goldstein. In the novel, Goldstein may or may not exist. He is shown in the Two Minutes Hate but is never shown in real life; he may only be a piece of propaganda. It is also unknown how many people are in the brotherhood. As O’Brien explains, one member only knows about three or four people who are associated. A member must also read the book written by Goldstein, as Winston does. The members of the brotherhood despise the party and realize that if there may be hope, it lies in the proles. They hope that in generations ahead, they will have generated enough power to possible overthrow.
11) Winston understood how the Party affected him. Julia, however, did not. She did not want to know why and how the Party operated the way they did. She only tried to defy the Party by breaking their rules.
12) O’Brien and Winston first talked at about the same spot where Julia fell and gave Winston the note. To Winston’s surprise, they were right in front of a telescreen.
13) In Winston’s dream, he dreamt about him as a boy. He remembered a time when his family got their ration of chocolate. When his mother gave him and his sister two separate pieces of chocolate, he snatched hers and eats it. He realizes what a selfish child he was and how his mother put ‘the boy’ above her and Winston’s sister.
14) Winston admits that he believes that there is a conspiracy against Big Brother and that O’Brien is a part of it. He says that they want to join it since they are enemies of the Party. They also disagree with the principles of INGSOC and that they are thought-criminals. Winston admits a few other things such as that he and Julia are adulterers.
15) O’Brien says: you have to be prepared to give your lives, you have to be prepared to commit murder, you have to be prepared to commit acts of sabotage witch may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people, and you have to be prepared to betray your country to foreign powers. O’Brien says you have to be prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, and to disseminate venereal diseases.
16) During the middle of Hate Week, Oceania went to war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia. The Mistry of Truth scrambled to rewrite the records so that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
17) ‘The Book” is a book written by the leader of the brotherhood, Emmanuel Goldstein. It contains an explanation of the Party’s slogans and their reasons for them. All of the brotherhood must read this book because it criticizes the Party’s beliefs and motives.
18) A totalitarian government means that the government controls all aspects of life. An individual is subordinate to the state and where cultural and individual expressions are suppressed. Totalitarian regimes also practice the idea of communism, which means the government owns and controls the common good. In other words, the government gains control of the basic good and redistributes them equally among the people.
A very similar regime often thought to be the foundation of the idea of Big Brother and the Party, was Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from around the 1920’s to the 1950’s. He ruled with terror and complete control.
The first most striking similarity between the two governments is that each rewrote the past. As we see in Oceania, Winston’s job is to rewrite the past to agree with the present but most of all, to glorify the Party. Soon after Stalin gained control over the Soviet Union, he had Soviet histories rewritten to make his role in the past more superior to what it really was. For example, V.I. Lenin led a revolution in 1917 to bring communism to Russia. This was the world’s first communist government. When Stalin came into rule, he rewrote the books to say that he was Lenin’s chief assistant.
Another similarity between the two governments is that anyone who opposed the government was to be rid of. During 1936-1938, anyone who opposed Stalin, or was “loyal to the capitalist world” was either discarded of, or sent to work-labor camps. But before they were sent to labor camps, they were interrogated, and then tortured to the point of confession. In Oceania, we see this as a main part of the novel for people guilty of thought crime or opposing the Party.
A story similar to that of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford in Oceania, occurred also during the rule of Stalin. There were men who were accused of sabotaging the Soviet Union and working with the enemy. They were held with public trials and punishment. This brutal action by Stalin made more and more people too afraid to speak out against the government in fear of this punishment. We see in Oceania that everyone is afraid to speak out against the Party due to the punishment.
The image of Big Brother closely resembles the figure of Stalin. Big Brother is described as a man with a heavy mustache and dark hair. Portraits like this were posted throughout the Soviet Union during Stalin’s rule.
Very few regimes in the history of the world are comparable to Big Brother. The ones who are are the regimes that we are glad we did not live in. As we read about governments like Stalin and Big Brother, we learn to appreciate the country we live in a little more.
1. Propaganda is a very crucial element to the story. Propaganda is also very important to real life. Propaganda is the spreading of ideas and thoughts. It can be expressed through words, signs, music, television, radio, and much more. Some propaganda is good, but much is bad.
There are many examples of propaganda in 1984. One example is the signs all over the place that say “big brother is watching you.” This helps spread the idea that the government sees all that you do. This also embeds fear into the citizens. Another example of propaganda is the telescreens. They spread news about the war and the enemy. These helped to influence the people into thinking what the government wants them too. It makes the people hate big brother’s enemy. An example of what the propaganda covers in the book is the war. It tells the people false information to make them agree with the government. There is also much information spread about the enemy, Goldstein. This makes the people hate the enemy more and be more loyal to their leader.
Propaganda may play a bigger role in modern day life than in the book. News is constantly being spread through television, radio, and other communication. It alters peoples’ minds. There is much true information as well as false information. Some things are good news and other is bad news. An example of what is covered by the news now is politics. New information is constantly unveiled about political leaders and campaigns. Another thing that is covered is war. There are a lot of bad things shown about the war. There aren’t many good things spread about the war.
Propaganda is used in both the book and modern day life. It will always be spread. The information will always vary from good and bad and from true to made up.
2. The note that the dark haired girl gave Winston said “I love you.” She slipped the message to him in a little slip of paper when he helped her up after she fell. This confused Winston and he debated whether it was true or it was a trap and she was a member of the thought police.
3. Winston tried to meet her in the canteen, away from the telescreens. This took a few days, simply because one of them usually had somebody with them. After a while, they got to be alone at a table. They arranged to meet in a safe place where they could be alone. Neither of them looked up while they had this very secretive conversation.
4. A caravan of prisoners caused the commotion in victory square. All of the people were shouting at the prisoners. This is much like when they shout during the two minutes of hate, showing their hatred for the enemies.
5. Julia got her first gift for Winston on the black market. The gift was a piece of chocolate.
6. The second meeting was planned to be at a ruined church. The place was out in the country, and fairly private. An atomic bomb had hit here many years ago.
7. “Talking by installments” is most of the communication between Winston and Julia. This occurs between their meetings, in situations where they have to be discrete. “Talking by installments” means talking in segments, because their conversations are often cut off short. They then pick up their conversation from where they left off.
8. Julia viewed life, almost, as a chore. She did not find any pleasure, accept when defying the party. She stood by her own beliefs, many that conflict with the party. She is simply a rebel, pretending to be loyal.
9. Winston becomes much more outgoing throughout the story. He also grows more hatred for the party. In the beginning of the book he commits less serious crimes such as purchasing a diary. Later in the story he commits more serious crimes such as sexual affairs. His hatred for big brother is always growing. He is also able to do more and becomes less afraid of punishment.
10. The brotherhood is a group of people working against Big Brother. The people do all that they can to bring down the government. Goldstein leads the party. Winston wants to be in the party, like O’brien.
11. Julia didn’t have the hatred for the party that Winston did. Julia just wanted to break the rules and the things that affected her. Winston, however just wanted to defy big brother in any way he could, because he truly hated it. This is why Winston scolded Julia and called her
12. Winston first spoke with O’Brien in the hallway near where Julia had handed him the note. They were right in front of a telescreen the entire time they talked. They conversed about newspeak and a dictionary.
13. Winston has memories of his mother and sister. He recalls himself as being a terrible child. He remembers his mother would do anything for him and gave her life for him.
14. Winston told O’Brien that he hated big brother and the party. He admitted to thought crime and adultery. He also told him that he would do whatever he could to bring the party down.
15. The brotherhood expects its members to take whatever means necessary to bring down Big Brother. The members may have to lie, steal, or kill if the brotherhood wants them to. They were also separated from their loved ones. If they were caught there was no help, and they could reveal nothing, even if they are tortured.
16. The ministry of truth was chaotic during hate week. The reason for this was that Oceania went to war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia. The records and documentation had to be altered so that it seemed like it had always been this way.
17. “The book” is written by Goldstein. It is used by all of the brotherhood. It explains in detail the plans of the party, and helps them to bring down big brother.
18. The totalitarian regime of Adolf Hitler is much like that of the book 1984, only much more harsh. There are many similarities in these governments as well as a few differences. Both of these reigns obtained power, but were still unsuccessful.
A big similarity between the two regimes is that they were ruled in the state of mind that power and loyalty should be obtained at all costs. In 1984, big brother makes the citizens loyal, even at the costs of altering the past so that nothing is true. Also, big brother obtains loyalty by embedding fear on its citizens. They kill people for the slightest crimes, such as thinking inappropriately. Hitler also obtained power and loyalty at all costs. This happened at a much more serious degree. Hitler killed thousands in war to obtain more land, which meant more power. He too, would kill anyone who even began to defy him.
Another similarity between the two is they dramatically alter their citizens’ lives. Big brother makes it so the people can have no enjoyment in their lives. It punishes people that disobey so harshly that it makes it so they are always afraid. Hitler also changed the peoples’ lives. He killed many people and made live so miserable with the war that it was hard to live.
Hitler’s regime was much more serious than 1984’s. Hitler killed thousands and ruined lives. Big brother made peoples lives unhappy, but did not kill as many.
Both of these governments did obtain power and loyalty, by forcing on people. They were unsuccessful because this is the main area they focused on, and not other issues like economy. This is also a likeness between the two; they were not very successful. The both ended up being powerful, but power is not all that is important.
1.Propaganda has influenced many things throughout time. Propaganda is designed to persuade people into thinking a certain way, joining a cause, or to remind them of what is going on in the world. Propaganda presents only the facts that would influence the viewer into believing the same as the designer of the propaganda. Propaganda only makes what they want the people to hear. Propaganda is also type of advertising.
Propaganda was used in 1984 but it was a bit different from those used in WWI. They were all about making someone feel watched or convincing people to hate the enemy. It was all about control of the people, from the music on the telescreens to again the posters, all the propaganda was nothing more than "mined control" then just advertising ideas.
Propaganda has been used many times in the past and will definitely have a place in the future. For those who bother to look, it might change their lives, however those who ignore; may find themselves in the ministry of love.
In George Orwells 1984 propaganda plays a big role. Giant posters of Big Brother are everywhere, with words that say “Big Brother is watching”. This instills a constant sense of being watched.; By reminding the citizens of Oceania that someone is always watching and by literally having eyes everywhere you look. The Party uses propaganda posters to remind the people who they are at war with and to show them that the Party has made life better even though it had really made life miserable.
2. The dark haired girls’ message to Winston was “I love you”.
3. Winston faced many problems when he was trying to talk to the dark haired girl. He had to wait for her to be by herself at a table in the canteen. But this challenged him because people kept sitting to close to her or they wouldn’t have lunch at the same time. He solved these problems by being patient and by tripping the beetle like man because he thought he would take a seat next to her.
4. The commotion in victory square was caused by a passing convoy of Eurasia prisoners.
5. Julia’s first gift for Winston was a piece of chocolate. She got it on the black market.
6. Their second meeting was planned to be on a street in the poor quarters after they got off of work. There was a market that they could use as an alibi.
7. Talking by installments is when Julia and Winston start a conversation and when someone came close they stop talking completely. When it’s safe to talk again the pick up the conversation where they left off at.
8. Julia viewed life as being simple. All she wanted to do was have a good time and
broke any of the party’s rules that got in her way.
9. The changes in Winston are not subtle changes. In the beginning his breaking the rules meant writing a diary, and he didn’t seem to have a will to live. When he meets Julia they break as many rules as they possible can, and has a new found energy and seems to almost love life.
10. The brotherhood is Goldstein’s organization it’s the alliance of people against the party.
11. Julia made Winston realize that understanding what the party was doing was important. Julia didn’t like the rules set down by the party but didn’t care about how they were falsifying every part of their lives. Winston understands how much the party’s wrong doing affects him and how they control the past and not just the present.
12. Winston first talked to O’Brian in the same hallway at the ministry where he got the help from Julia.
13. Winston’s dream brought up memories of the last time he saw his mom and sister. It reminded him of a time when he stole his dying baby sisters piece of chocolate.
14. Winston admits to O’Brian that he hates the party and believes that O’Brian is part of the secret organization whose mission is to destroy the party. He also admits that he and Julia are thought of as criminals and adulators.
15. Being a member of the brotherhood meant that you had to be ready and willing to kill, commit suicide, black mail, have your appearance surgically altered and be willing to die for the cause of freedom.
16. During hate week the party changed who they were at war with. The ministry had to change every document from Eurasia to East Asia .
17. “The Book” was written by Goldstein. It was his interpretation of the parties slogan. In it, the book denounces the party’s lies
18. A totalitarian regime is a form of government where everything and everyone are controlled by the government. It controls peoples private and public lives. In the book the Party controls the people of Oceania lives. They tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. An example of an totalitarian regime would be Adolf Hitler’s regime in the nineteen hundreds. He started with the Nazis to control the Jews, well to abolish or get rid of the Jews. He would control how the acted. Hitler would kill people if the were a Jew, much like the party killed people for thoughtcrime. Hitler wanted to get rid of all the Jews, the Party wanted to get rid of independence .Hitler and the Party wanted people to be like their image of how the world should be. The regime’s want power, that’s all the want pretty much. Power, control, and world where everyone is alike is what both regimes wanted. Even though both regimes are alike in many ways they are also different. The Party wanted everyone to be the same and act the same. When Hitler on the other hand just wanted to destroy the Jews, one group of people. All a totalitarian regime pretty much is, is a person, or government that wants all the power and to control everything everyone does. The Party changed history to control what the people thought, Hitler and the Nazis could not.
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Many people can spot propaganda yet some never fully understand why it is used and how to use it. Along with many other techniques propaganda is used to persuade and share ideas and beliefs. Not only does propaganda express an idea or belief to you, it helps you to look at it from all directions. Leaving room to question how you feel about the idea or belief that is being expressed, whether in be negative or positive. Propaganda is used to express beliefs and ideas about many things but not limited to gay marriage, politics, religion, war and abortion. Propaganda is such a popular form of a way to inform people on your ideas and beliefs in those subjects because so many people have ideas that differ from one another. Expressing it this way makes people look at it in another light, and might encourage change. In the Novel 1984 George Orwell has incorporated many things to help build an image. One of the many things he incorporated was propaganda. In the novel propaganda helped the party make people fear them. Propaganda was used in the novel almost everywhere, trying to persuade and inform the population in the small ran down Oceania. As one of the propaganda posters in Oceania stated “Big Brother is watching”. Those 5 words on a simple poster meant so much more then the simple consonants and vowels combined together to make words. It was used to build the desire to question how you felt about this “Big Brother” who always seemed to be with you. After observing this propaganda poster people realize that with big brother always watching privacy was no more. Thus leaving no room to question or doubt the party, because big brother was always watching he would know, and then you would be prosecuted.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The dark haired girl’s message said “I love you.”
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
To solve the problems that Winston had in getting in touch with the dark haired girl, he took many steps. Winston picked a day that he knew that the dark haired would be alone, so that he approaching her would not be noticeable to others. To get her alone he had to trip someone walking to her table. Once at the table the sat together and arranged a meeting without conversing at all.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The commotion was caused by the prisoners passing in the trucks. The people mostly consisting of party members greeted them with boos and yelling.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Julia got Winston real chocolate for his first gift on Black Market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
There second meeting was planned to take place in the middle of street after they got off work. If questioned they would be able to use the black market as an alibi.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
Talking by installments was the term used to refer when Winston and Julia would talk then there conversations could end quickly and be brought back up.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia viewed life like most care free teens do, simply to take life by the horns and enjoy it. Unlike the way that the party thought Julia was she was wild and corrupted. She loved the excitement and thrill that came along with bad things.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Winston is becoming more and more comfortable with breaking the rules, thus becoming sneakier. At first Winston broke the party’s rules by writing in the diary, but now he breaks several each time he is with Julia.
10. What is the brotherhood?
Brotherhood is basically a sorority that tries to bring the party down. It is a union that formed against the party and all of their beliefs.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia could care less about how the party was run and how it worked. The only thing that mattered to her was that they set rules and boundaries and she wanted to break them.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Winston first met O’Brien in the hallway when he had an encounter with Julia.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
Winston’s dream brought up memories of him stealing food and chocolate from his sister. It also reminded him of the last time he saw his mother and sister.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Winston told O’Brien that he hated the party and would do anything to bring them down. He also admitted that he and Julia were adulterers and both guilty of thought crime.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
The brotherhood meant that you had to be ready to commit suicide, homicide, and change yourself whenever the brotherhood ordered.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
The party changed who they had been at war with. Instead of them saying they had been in war with Eurasia they had to change everything and say Eastasia.
17. What is "the book"?
The book was wrote by Goldstein and basically elaborated on the lies of the party.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
Totalitarianism is a type of government that runs on pure submission of its people. The people are not viewed as a vital part of the party. One of the most popular totalitarian regimes of all time is Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler felt no mercy to anyone, just like they party. To put it in simpler terms what they say goes.
Just as Hitler tortured innocent Jews when they did not abide with him. The party vaporized anyone the questioned or thought something about the party in a negative manner.
Book II Questions - Tyler Hurst - Period #2
1. Propaganda has many definitions, many of them being quite contradictory. However, there are some general similarities in all forms and types of propaganda. All types try to influence public opinion and behavior through the use of selective information. Most propaganda is used to create an emotional response, rather than a rational response. It is the ultimate weapon of persuasion and can be presented through many mediums, such as posters, television ads, biased media, radio ads, etc… These are some of the techniques used in propaganda:
• Appeal to Fear
• Appeal to Authority
• Bandwagon
• Demonizing the Enemy
• Disinformation
• Flag Waving
• Oversimplification
• Quotes out of Context
• Name Calling
• Labeling
• Slogans
• Stereotyping
In the course of World History, propaganda has been used more in the 19th and 20th centuries than in any other time periods. There are very few sources of Ancient propaganda. One example is the Behistun Inscription, which detailed the rise of Darius I of Persia.
More familiar examples of propaganda can be found in both the First and Second World Wars. Because of these wars occurred more recently, there are many more records of techniques used by nations. In these times, propaganda was used to gain favor for one side and to absolutely despise the other side. Nazi Germany used propaganda posters to paint the Jews as a subhuman race and the Americans as savage foreign invaders. On the other hand, American posters stressed the importance of participation in the war effort on all levels and foreboded on the fact that the War in Europe could easily become the War in America.
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the one party government uses propaganda to stress the importance of absolute loyalty to the party and absolute hatred towards any enemy of the party. The party uses the face of Big Brother to give the nonliving establishment of government a face that people can connect to. Big Brother is used to create an image of the Party that people can relate to. The government also uses the Two Minutes Hate to motivate its citizens to express their hate towards the enemies of Oceania.
2. The dark-haired girl, Julia, sent a message expressing her love to Winston. Winston discovers the content of the note in the following lines: “He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I love you.” (Page 108)
3. He made attempts to meet her in the canteen, a crowded place where he could disguise his conversation with Julia. He also murmured words to her and they spoke softly as to avoid detection. Winston describes the canteen meeting in the following lines: “There was perhaps a minute in which to act… In a low murmur Winston began speaking. Neither of them looked up; steadily they spooned the watery stuff into their mouths, and in between spoonfuls exchanged the few necessary words in low expressionless voices.” (Page 113). By using low voices and not making eye contact, Winston and Julia were able to exchange the few words necessary to initiate a private meeting.
4. The commotion in Victory Square is caused by a convoy of Eurasian prisoners passing through the square. “A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with submachine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street. In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together. Their sad Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks…” (Page 115)
5. The first “gift” Winston receives from Julia is a piece of chocolate. Winston compares the chocolate he receives from Julia to the chocolate that the government usually provides in the following lines: “It was dark and shiny, and was wrapped in silver paper. Chocolate normally was dull-brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire.” (Page 121). Surprised by the quality, Winston inquires into where Julia got the chocolate, to which she replies “Black market”.
6. The next meeting between Winston and Julia was to take place in a ruined church. Julia is very worried about being discovered, although she sees it as inevitable. The meeting place is described in the following lines: “… the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. It was a good hiding place…” (Page 128).
7. Winston and Julia’s opportunities to speak are limited since they avoid conversation whenever the possibility that someone is observing them exists. This brings about starting and interrupting a conversation at broken intervals, which Julia calls "talking in installments." (Page 128).
8. Julia viewed life much like many of us do today: living a life with the purpose of satisfying yourself. She did not rebel against the party rules because she wanted to bring about some sort of revolution, but instead she broke the rules as a means of satisfying herself. Julia wanted to live as long a life as possible under the conditions of the party. I feel that she also did some things merely for the sake of breaking the rules.
9. Winston is now in open rebellion against the party. He has joined the Brotherhood and is disgusted by the Party. He has also found someone who he can confide in, which helps him to release and share his thoughts about the Party. He has matured into a knowledgeable character that is committed to fighting the Party, not merely committing acts of insignificant Thoughtcrime.
10. The Brotherhood is an underground group, much like that of many rebellion groups during the Nazi occupation of Europe in the late 30s and early 40s. The group is believed to be headed by the ultimate enemy of the Party, Emmanuel Goldstein. The group is used as a sort of scapegoat for the Party to blame its problems on. Winston later joins the group and swears allegiance to the Brotherhood.
11. Julia didn’t understand the importance of the past like Winston did. She didn’t understand the power the party held in controlling the past. Julia was only concerned about the present and how she was going to avoid getting caught by the party. Winston, on the other hand, was on a quest of truth, in which he tries to find out about the pre-Ingsoc World.
12. They speak for the first time in the same long corridor in the Ministry where Julia had slipped him the note. “He was walking down the long corridor at the Ministry, and he was almost at the spot where Julia had slipped the note in his hand when he became aware that… It was O’Brien.” (Page 157)
13. Winston remembers his childhood spent with his mother and his little sister. He recalls all the sacrifices his mother had made for him and his own selfishness. Winston, when he was young, was always hungry and he would exhaust all measures to get more food. He even recalls a time when his mom divided up a piece of rationed chocolate and gave him more than his sister and mother combined. His final memory is that he came back home one day, only to discover that his mom and sister were gone.
14. Winston makes a long and hard confession to O’Brien when he goes to meet him at his house with Julia. Winston puts all his faith in O’Brien by admitting the following: “We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers.” (Page 170). Winston believes that O’Brien is his only hope, but doesn’t know that this confession will bring about the end of the Winston seen in the earlier parts of the novel.
15. Being a member of the Brotherhood, was in many ways, very similar to being that of a modern-day terrorist. One was expected to carry out acts that could kill thousands of innocent people for the cause. One was also expected to keep tings secret and to sacrifice everything in the name of a cause. Being a member of the Brotherhood was essentially like being a robot: carrying out orders without regard for anything and anyone else.
16. The government had to destroy all records of war with Eurasia because the country was now at war with Eastasia. The Party uses the Ministry to change all the records so people can carry out one of the many principles of Ingsoc: doublethink. The news and records were only used to reinforce the process of doublethink in all citizens.
17. The book is a negative “biography” of Oceania and its ideology. The book explains in detail the slogan of the Party: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance through Strength.”. The book is the “manual” of the Brotherhood and is believed to have been written by Emmanuel Goldstein.
18. North Korean Regime
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the author paints a “gloom and doom” image of a one-party government that rules through force. The government has absolute control over all aspects of the country: economy, media, transportation, and even (to an extent) the language of the people. All readers are shocked by the vivid details Orwell provides in the novel, and find it hard to imagine that such a party or regime actually exists in the 21st century. Even though 1984 is merely fiction, there is one regime that is very similar to, if not a mirror image of, the ruling party in the book. The regime is that of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK - North Korea) headed by Kim Jong-Il.
In contrast to its name, the DPRK has very little to do with democracy and the ideals of the republic. The people of North Korea have no personal life, as they are all “slaves” to their government. The government institutes a curfew and monitors all of its citizens, as in the novel.
The DPRK is a one-party state that teaches absolute loyalty to the leaders and the rules of the party. The government has complete control over the media and the economy, allowing its people no opportunity to receive outside information or to own businesses/invest. As in the novel, the government distributes what little resources are available, and also uses the media as a weapon of propaganda.
Another troubling similarity between the “Big Brother State” and the DPRK is the use of forced labor on those who break the laws set forth by the party. In North Korea 0.85% of the population are in forced labor camps serving out sentences without a fair trial and chance of release. In these camps, there is also use of torture as a means to withdraw confessions. The camps also institute capital punishment. The conditions in these camps are considered to be subhuman.
As Americans, it is nearly impossible for us to imagine a country in which one party has absolute control and subjects its people to near slavery. We can only envision such a state with the aid of literature, such as the novel 1984, and the few documentaries presented in the media. In this day and age it is a shame that a government, such as the one presented in 1984, exists. Orwell’s frightening image is much more than just fiction to the people of North Korea, as they are subjected to real-life horrors from a classic work of fiction.
1. Propaganda is the distribution of information that is designed to influence people and their opinions. Propaganda is intended to shape perception, and to manipulate people’s behaviors, so that the end result furthers the intent of what is trying to be conceived by the propagandist. Propaganda is most commonly used by the government to persuade the individuals of that country, the government’s beliefs. Propaganda has been used constantly throughout the history of the world, mostly during wars that are taking place. One example of when propaganda was used when Germany was controlled by Hitler. The Nazis believed that propaganda was a vital tool in achieving their goals. They produced posters as well as films and books to make their beliefs widespread. Another example of when propaganda was used was during the Cold War. The United Stated and the Soviet Union used propaganda extensively, through film, radio programming, and television to influence their own citizens, each other, and third world countries. Propaganda is used is in the novel “1984,” by George Orwell. It is introduced at the very beginning when Winston walks into Victory Mansions. He describes a large poster at the end of the hallway with the picture of Big Brother on it, and at the bottom, it saying, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. This propaganda plays a big role in the novel of “1984.” The propaganda is intimidating, and it shows just how much the Party controls the people that live in Oceania. The propaganda is a constant reminder to the people of Oceania that the Party is always watching, and that they are never alone. The propaganda helps to control the people. The propaganda previously described is just a few examples of the wide variety and the huge collection of propaganda that exists. Propaganda has almost always existed, and will continue to exist as long we live.
2. What was the dark-haired girl’s message?
When Julia fell, and Winston helped her up, she slipped something in his hand. The scrap of paper was small and flat and folded into a square. On the paper, the dark-haired girl had written, “I love you.”
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
Winston had a problem after Julia handed him the note which contained, “I love you.” The problem was that there wasn’t many ways that they could be alone so that they could talk to each other. He figured that he could meet in the canteen around the middle of the room, not to near the telescreens, with a buzz of conversation around the room, so that they could arrange a time to be with each other. A week after that though, it was impossible, and then one day Wilsher invited him to sit at his table. The next day she had sat by herself again, the man in front of him fell with a crash, and Winston was able to sit and exchange a few words with her.
4. What caused the commotion is Victory Square?
While Julia and Winston were meeting in Victory Square, there was a commotion, which helped, because it dimmed their voices when they talked to each other. The commotion was though, that there was a long line of trucks passing slowly down the street, with Eurasian prisoners inhabiting them. They were yellow men with greenish uniforms, and though at first there was boos and hisses from the Party members, most comrades were just gaping curiously.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
The first gift that Julia got for Winston was the chocolate that she had in her pocket. She offered him a piece, and he immediately knew that it was unusual chocolate. When he asked her about it, she replied that she got it on the Black Market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned?
The second place that Winston and Julia met, not counting when they passed on the streets, was a hiding place that Julia knew. It was at the belfry of a ruined church, in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb at fallen thirty years prior. Though it was a good hiding place once you got there, it was very dangerous to get to.
7. What is “talking by installments”?
“Talking by installments,” is how Julia and Winston talked to each other when they were going down the street. While walking, they never looked at each other, but they carried on a conversation. When a Party member would come close, or they would come close to a telescreen, they would just stop talking, even if it was in the middle of a sentence. They would then proceed when it was safer, but then abruptly cut off what they were saying, because they had to separate at the agreed spot.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia viewed life very simply. People wanted to have a good time, the Party wanted to stop you from having it, and then you broke the rules as best you could without getting caught. She hated the Party, and thought that it was natural that the Party should want to rob you of your pleasures. She believed that any kind of organization against the Party was stupid, and that the clever thing to do was just to break the rules and stay alive.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston’s life as compared to our first view of him?
Winston’s life is a lot different from when we first met him at the beginning of the book. At the beginning he was just realizing that he wanted to take Big Brother down, and now that we are further in the book, Winston is acting on these emotions, doing more thought-crime. He now has Julia and the apartment above Mr. Charrington’s shop, and he is trying to find a way so that he can take part in the Brotherhood. He constantly breaks the laws of the Party and doesn’t feel bad about them, as when he did in the diary.
10. What is the Brotherhood?
The Brotherhood is an underground organization that is against the Party and its beliefs. It is run by Emmanuel Goldstein, and nobody really knows the amount of people, or who the people are that are in the Brotherhood. We do know that O’Brien, Winston, Julia, and Martin are members though.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered the understanding what the Party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia didn’t have the faintest interest about what the Party and Big Brother was doing. She didn’t really care or want to talk about Newspeak, or the principles of Ingsoc. She found things like that or things of importance boring. She just knew when to cheer and when to boo, and how to go along with the crowd.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O’Brien?
Winston first spoke with O’Brien when he came behind him in a long corridor in the Ministry of Truth. O’Brien began walking with him, talking to him about the Tenth Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. He told Winston that he had a copy and that he should stop by and pick it up. O’Brien then continued to write his address on a slip of paper while they stood in front of the telescreen, and handed it to Winston.
13. What memories did Winston’s dream bring up?
The memory that Winston’s dream brought up was about his family, and the last time that he saw them. He told Julia of how he thought he had deserved the food more than his sister and his mother. When a chocolate ration was issued, he had demanded for the whole piece of chocolate, though his mother gave one-fourth to his sister. He then proceeded to steal her ration, and run away. When he came back, his sister and mother had disappeared, and he never knew what happened to them.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O’Brien?
Winston told O’Brien that he and Julia are enemies of the Party. Winston also confessed that they are adulterers, thought-criminals, and don’t believe in the principles or Ingsoc. He then said that if there really is an organization that wants to take down the Party, he and Julia want to join.
15. What difficulties were contained in being a member of the Brotherhood?
There were many difficulties if you chose you become a member of the Brotherhood. You had to be willing to give your life, commit murder, or do anything else that could cause demoralization and weaken the power of the Party. You will always be fighting in the dark, without knowing why you are doing what you are doing. Also, even if you survive, you could be given a new identity, so that you are a completely different person.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the Ministry of Truth during Hate Week?
On the sixth day of Hate Week, during a speech which an orator of the Party was giving, it was announced that Oceania was not at war with Eurasia, but Eastasia, and Eurasia was an ally. This meant that the last five tears were obsolete. After this had happened, the Records Department needed for there not be any reference to the war with Eurasia or the alliance with Eastasia, so they worked nonstop for six days, eighteen out of the twenty-four hours a day.
17. What is “the book”?
The book is a heavy black volume, with no name or title on the cover. The pages are worn, as if has been through many hands. The title is “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” by Emmanuel Goldstein. The book is the book for the Brotherhood, and it explains how they plan to take down the Party.
18. Totalitarianism happens when the state monopolizes every aspect of a person’s public and private life. They control every aspect by using propaganda, having mass surveillance, controlling the economy, as well as many other things. Many states have been counted as a totalitarian regime throughout the years, for example, the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany. Also in the novel, “1984,” by George Orwell, the government of Oceania was a totalitarian regime. During the years of 1933 to 1945, Germany was under a totalitarian dictatorship, by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a great orator and propagandist, which helped him to take control of Germany at that time. Because of the Great Depression, Hitler promised change for Germany. During this time though, there were large scale crimes against humanity such as the persecution and mass-murder of millions of Jews, minorities, and dissidents, which came to be known as the Holocaust. Many Germans did not care because Hitler could provide jobs for the unemployed, but some just didn’t speak up because they were scared that they would be next to die. In the novel “1984,” the Party is a totalitarian regime that controls every aspect of the lives of the people in Oceania, much like Nazi Germany. The leader of the Party, Big Brother, is someone who reminds you much of Adolf Hitler when described. In “1984,” much like the Jews, there is a group of people commonly known as the proles. Though they weren’t mass murdered, they also aren’t thought of as real humans, just people who can help Oceania populate. Also, if you were to think or do something against the Party, you were you were captured by the thought police and tortured until you loved Big Brother. During Nazi Germany, instead of trying to make the people love Hitler, they killed them instead; glad to be rid of them. This is how the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany and the totalitarian regime in the novel of “1984,” are alike in many ways.
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
A) Propaganda is material that is used in the media to warp or sway the opinions of a group or groups of people. It is used greatly in the world toady and can come in many forms and for many reasons. Propaganda is a common element in a time of terror or chaos in a country. Basically any time that the views of the citizens of an area are vital is a place where propaganda is usually found. It has been used to both bring people together as well as push people apart. The government is usually the culprit behind much of the propaganda in the media today, using it to shape the opinions and in some way, control the thoughts of the people. It plays a great role in the novel as well. Even the slogans of the Party are propaganda. The “Two Minutes Hate” as well as the many posters of propaganda in the book are more examples of propaganda.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
A) The Dark Haired Girl’s message to Winston was “I Love You”. It was written on a small piece of paper and slipped to Winston when he helped her to her feet.
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
A) Winston ran into many problems when it came to conversing with the Dark Haired Girl. He had to carefully schedule a time when she was alone to talk to her, and there were not many opportunities. When they did meet however, they made sure they didn’t make it noticeable by looking at one another and talking aloud.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
A) The commotion in Victory Square was caused by a caravan of Eurasian prisoners being brought into town. Due to the fact that Eurasian prisoners were so rarely seen in Oceania, the people saw this as a great opportunity to join in the yelling and verbal abusing of the prisoners.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
A) Julia got her first gift for Winston, a piece of chocolate, from the Black Market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
A) The second meeting was planned to occur in an old run-down church.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
A) “Talking by Installments” is the process of communication used by Julia and Winston. It is the process of holding a conversation by conversing in small sections while alone, and stopping when someone else entered their meeting area.
8. How did Julia view life?
A) Julia lived her public life by following Big Brother as well as the Party’s rules. However secretly, she disagreed with Big Brother’s rule and occasionally broke the laws of The Party.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
A) In the beginning of the novel, it is known that Winston rejecets the rules of Big Brother, yet he doesn’t quite know how to go about it. After meeting Julia and discovering her lifestyle, he seems to be empowered to break away from the tyranny of the Party.
10. What is the brotherhood?
A) The brotherhood is an organization of people, lead by the infamous Goldstein, who despise the rule of the Party. The entire organization revolves around bringing down Big Brother.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing
was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
A) Julia felt that what had happened had happened and there was no use in trying to change it. She didn’t worry about how the Party ran Oceania, she just lived her life by her rule, not the Party’s.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
A) They first speak in the hallway, the conversation purposely located by O’Brien in front of a telescreen. During the conversation, O’Brien compliments Winston, as well as offers him a dictionary, giving him his address to retrieve it. This small altercation only leads Winston to believe more strongly that he is on the same side as himself.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
A) Winston’s dream brought up a memory from his childhood. It made him recall the warm love of his mother, and how she gave him whatever he wanted, even at the expense of herself as well as his baby sister.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
A) He admits to all of his, as well as Julia’s crimes against the Party. He tells them they are ready and willing to do whatever they have to do to assist the party in bringing down Big Brother.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
A) The difficulty of being a member of the brotherhood was that you were always at the group’s mercy. No matter what they asked you to do, and no matter where or when you were asked to do it, you were expected to do it with no questions asked. You also had to be willing to commit acts of violence and hate if it was necessary. You also had no chance of being rescued by the brotherhood if you were discovered.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
A) Great flurry within the ministry of truth was caused when suddenly, Oceania engaged in war with Eastasia rather than its previous enemy, Eurasia. The flurry was the frantic work to locate, rewrite and destroy all contradictory works of literature.
17. What is "the book"?
The book is a type of manual that was written by Goldstein exposing the Party for what it really was. It is required that all brotherhood members read and become very familiar with it in case it is demolished by the Party and needs to be rewritten.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
1.) Propaganda is the spreading of ideas, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. Propaganda can be used in commercials, posters, or fliers to convey ideas to a said audience. Throughout the years the way people use propaganda has changed. This is because in the past fliers and posters were the objects of choice, while today television and radio is often used as a sort of spoken propaganda because it attracts more people. Even today we are subject to propaganda. From the shows we watch daily to what we listen to on the radio, while on our way to work, school, or another place of choice. Today, however, you see a decrease of propaganda on posters and fliers.
Propaganda plays a large role in the novel 1984. The Party uses propaganda to manipulate the people of Oceania into following the rules and doing what The Party thinks is best for everyone. The propaganda slogan “Big Brother is Watching You” is a perfect example of this, because it makes the citizens of Oceania believe that no matter where they are or what they are doing, The Party knows, and if they go against the rules or try an act of rebellion then they will have to suffer the consequences. The Party also uses propaganda to make the people believe that they have made Oceania a much better place. This is because they show how they are at war, and that the government has it all under control, making everyone think that they are safe where they are and The Party has actually done them a wonderful service, instead of truly taking away their freedoms.
Propaganda is something that will more than likely always be around. This is because there will always be people who disagree on things, and propaganda is a good way to give your viewpoints on the matters at hand.
2.) The dark-haired girl gave Winston a folded piece of paper. It said “I love you”, and that was it.
3.) At first he couldn’t think of a way to talk to her. Then he decided upon trying to get her alone at a table in The Canteen. However, because people kept setting with her, this took about a week to accomplish. During the time they were sitting together they conveyed their messages without looking at each other and without appearing to be speaking to each other , too. They decided to meet again and then left without even saying a goodbye.
4.) The commotion was cause by prisoners passing thru the square. They were Eastasion prisoners, which many people had never seen before, so to them this was some sort of treat. So they decided to yell at them since they were considered the enemy.
5.) She got Winston’s present from the Black Market. The present was a piece of real chocolate.
6.) The second meeting was planned to be at a ruined belfry of an old church. It was located in the country where a bomb had dropped years before.
7.) Talking by installments was their way of talking (Julia and Winston). When they were together they would talk, but sometimes their conversations would have to quickly end. So when they would see each other again they would simply pick up where they had left off.
8.) She thought that life was just staying alive for as long as you could. Also, she thought you should do everything in your power to go against the party. For she acted exactly how she should on the outside, however, on the inside she was doing defying the Party.
9.) There are a few changes that have taken place in Winston. The most obvious change, though, is that he is now aware that he is completely set against The Party. He is also both sleeping with Julia and looking for the Brotherhood, which is entirely illegal. If this were to be found out then he would more than likely be vaporized.
10.) The Brotherhood is the group of people who are against The Party. They are set in trying to find away to bring down Big Brother. They’re willing to do anything to defy and destroy The Party even if it means death.
11.) Julia wasn’t interested in the destruction of The Party. She thought that just breaking their rules would be sufficient. However, Winston knew that that alone would not be enough.
12.) Winston first spoke to O’Brien in front of the telescreen in the same hallway where Julia gave him the note that said “I Love You”.
13.) Winston’s dream brought up the memories of his mom and his sister. In these memories his mom had always put him first, even though he seemed to be a horrible child. These memories also showed that his mother had always loved him, even at his worse.
14.) The admissions that Winston made to O’Brien were that he thought O’Brien was part of the Brotherhood. Also that Julia and he were now thought to be criminals.
15.) Being in the Brotherhood meant several things. Like you had to be ready to kill, alter your physical appearance, commit suicide, blackmail, and basically just be willing to die for the cause which you were fighting for.
16.) That which caused the flurry of activity in the ministry of truth is that Oceania went to war with another enemy. So they had to change the documents to say that they were at war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia.
17.) “The Book” is basically the rulebook and guidelines for the Brotherhood. It was written by Goldstein and tells all about the Party and their lies.
1.What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel?
Propaganda has come in my forms over many year, and over many things, it is a way for people to share there viewpoints and to persuade other people in believeing there viewpoints as well. In many such cases over the years events such as vietnam and WWI and WWII people were persuaded by propaganda. Posters and flies and also people themeselves would speak to the masses and try to convince the people to see there viewpoints. Classics such as uncle sam and posters by steel savage were advertising there views saying that people need to enlist in order to keep the country safe.
Propaganda today is used in many forms such as commercials and billboards trying to get kids to fight in iraq. In many cases people use past events to back up there ideas. Such as 9/11 people would use that image to inspire many new recruits to fight in the war in iraq.
In the book 1984 propaganda is used everywhere, such as in the posters in the town that say " Big brother is watching" and many more in order to tell the people that they should support oceania instead of fight them. They want also use the posters to keep the people from thinking about rebelling. They use fear in order to keep the people from committing any type of crime that could hurt the party such as making rebellious party or attacks on the party memebers. They tell the people that if they do not cooperate with them than they shall be vaporized and people will know nothing of them ever exsisting.
Propaganda will always be in our lives as long as there conflict between people. There will always be conflict because of people there differnet views. No matter how many forms that propaganda will take there messages will always be clear and they will always be manipulating people into supporting them in anyway possible.
2.) What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The dark haired ladys message to winston was simply " I Love You"
3.) How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
After many weeks of seeing her at the canteen he is finally able to sit with her alone, they both very briefly arrange a meeting and then they sit quietly eating there lunch say good bye and leave
4.) What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The commotion in victory square was caused by people seeing prisoners being brought through town. It was very rare and people would boo at them as they passed by.
5.) Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Julia got here first gift for winston at the black market it was a piece of real chocolate
6.) Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
The secound meeting was planned at an old church in the country side where a atomic bomb had once fell and it was a place where they could be alone togther without being watched
7.) What is "talking by installments"?
Talking by installments is they way that winston and julia would talk to each other. In case there conversation was interupted they would be able to pick up where they left off.
8.) How did Julia view life?
Julia believed that you should doing everything to live as long as you could and also as much as you could to corrupt the party.
9.) What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Winston in the beginning is conservative man try to make sure that he followed all of the partys orders and that he should'nt go against them. But now he is seeking out any way that he can to take down the party, trying his hardest to become a memember of the brotherhood
10.) What is the brotherhood?
The brotherhood is an organization ran by goldstein and its a secret organiztion made to take down the party in any way possible
11.) Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Julia thought that taking down the Party was not even important, only breaking there rules where they touched her life. She did'nt want to know any thing about the Party. Julia just liked breaking the rules.
12.) Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Winston first spoke to O'Brien in the same place as Julia in front of the telescreen.
13.) What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
Winstons dreams bring up the last memories that he had with his mother and his younger sister and that but his mother still loved him, she gave her life to protect Winston and though he still dosent know how.Winston’s mother always put him first and tried to spoil him, no matter what the consequence were for her or Winston’s sister.
14.) What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
That he and Julia both hated the party, they both had committed thought crime, and they both were willing to anything for the brotherhood
15.) What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
You are willing to do anything the brotherhood asks and that is very dargerous to you and your family, and any thing they say goes, kill someone or protest or even suicide
16.) What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
That they went to war with the wrong country and the people did not know this, they were attacking the wrong people. They were fighting Eurasin instead of there enemy eastasia and they didn’t know because the party changed there records.
17.) What is “ The Book”
It’s a book that the members of the brother hood must read, its writen by there leader Goldstein and it is telling everyone what the party is doing wrong and what the brother hood should do to stop them.
18.) Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
A totalitarian regime where a ruling party controls its citizens in every way possible there public and there private lives. The control what people eat, where they sleep, what they wear and they control what they can do. The best example of this is Hitler and the nazi’s but the regimes of our time have join forces to make bigger regimes. Baath is a twin-regime of terrorism who is combined forces of iran and south africa, Baath slowly took over life as is was in Iraq. This is also shown in 1984 with big brother starting out very small and building there way up until they finally took over the country.
In Syria any opposing figures to the Baath regime were persecuted, arrested and even assassinated abroad. The dictator of Syria also would hold fake elections where he would win 99.99% of the votes and would do this consectivly until he died in 2000 and his son took over and he continued the tradition of the 99% votes. This is similar to that of 1984 where all opposing figures of the party where eleminated and forgotten about because of the ministry of truth. The party also controls all parts of the government so they don’t even have to hold elections.
The dictator of Syria was very similar to the party in 1984 by controling what the people could do or say he could do anything and get away with it. Thousands of Syrians where captured and killed in prisons in the town and this also happened in a town called Hama where in most cases the prisoners where beaten to death in the jail cells. In 1984 if your did anything that would be consider against the party you would disappear for good. Just like these regimes in Syria and Iraq they both share the same fate for there people if they choose to disobey them and that is death. They both brainwash there people to believe what they want to believe and also they control the media so to outside places everything seems fine while everything isn’t.
Nathan Hernandez
November 30, 2008
1) Propaganda is a term used to describe an action that is supposed to change the thoughts and opinions of people, by presenting certain facts to the public. It presents selected facts so technically it is lying. Propaganda is used in the novel many times. It surrounds Oceania on posters advertising the slogans of Big Brother and of the Party; “Freedom Is Slavery, War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength.” Also giant posters of Big Brother are everywhere, with words that say “Big Brother is watching”. This instills a constant sense of being watched. By reminding the citizens of Oceania that someone is always watching and by literally having eyes everywhere you look. The Party uses propaganda posters to remind the people who they are at war with and to show them that the Party has made life better. I also believe that the two minutes of hate is a form of propaganda. It shows the Party’s side of the war, shows the bad things that war criminals have done, and forces them to be patriotic. Propaganda in the novel is a means of transporting the ideas and philosophy that Big Brother holds to the people. Propaganda will continue to be used, as it is an excellent source of expressing ideas and convincing citizens. Although forms, audiences, and messages will change, the general principles will remain, and people will constantly have decisions and thoughts influenced by propaganda.
All propaganda is biased. That is how the media and government tries to influence people. Propaganda techniques have been used for centuries. They motivate people or trick them into believing what others want them to. As propaganda ideas become fewer in today’s society, different techniques will be approached.
2.) The dark-haired girl fell in front of Winston. When Winston helped her up she slipped him a note. The note said “I love you.” There was nothing more than that leaving Winston puzzled.
3.) They made multiple attempts to meet with each other. Finally they met while they were eating Winston tried to go over and sit with her, but people would call his name or beat him to her table. When they did get to talk, they did not look at each other or draw attention. Everyone’s attention was focused on the prisoners that were being brought in.
4.) The disruption in Victory Square was formed when a mob of people excitedly rushed over to see a passing convoy of Eurasian prisoners where they expressed their hatred toward them.
5.) Julia’s first gift to Winston is chocolate. Winston describes the chocolate that he is used to getting as dull-brown and crumbly. Julia finds this genuine chocolate on the black market and gives it to him.
6.) Julia and Winston met several times. The place they met and planned to meet frequently was a park where nobody would ever think to look for them. There were no telescreens. They planned to meet in a poor spot of town adjacent to the marketing areas.
7.) “Talking by installments” is where Julia and Winston had to finish their conversation where they left off before. They would just pick right back up on the topic when they began talking again in a safe place.
8.) Julia viewed life as being simple. You survive and entertain yourself. All she wanted to do was have a good time and break any of the party’s rules that kept her from enjoying herself.
9.) The main change in Winston compared to the beginning of the novel, is that he is now completely against the Party. Winston is seeking out the Brotherhood, and is committing a major crime by having intercourse with Julia. Winston has become an enemy of the Party.
10.) The Brotherhood is an underground group. The group is believed to be headed by the ultimate enemy of the Party, Emmanuel Goldstein. It is used so the Party can blame its problems on the group. Winston later become a part of the group and swears allegiance to the Brotherhood.
11.) Winston understood how the Party affected him. Julia did not. She did not want to know why and how the Party operated the way they did. She only tried to defy the Party by breaking their rules and enjoying herself as much as possible.
12.) On the way back to his office, Winston spoke with O’Brien for the first time. It was in front of the telescreen and close to where Julia gave Winston her love note.
13.) Winston’s dream brought up memories of when he was a little kid, starving for food. He stole food from his own home and took more than his share from his sister. He stole chocolate out of the palm of her hand. There was also a memory of his mother and how she was expecting something bad to happen, in the end she and his sister had disappeared.
14.) Winston told O’Brien about him hating the party, being a criminal of thought crime. He also tells him about his relationship with Julia. He admits to wanting to take the Party down.
15.) Being a member of the brotherhood meant that you had to be ready and willing to kill, commit suicide, blackmail, have your appearance surgically altered and be willing to die for the cause of freedom.
16.) During hate week the Party changed who they were at war enemy. The ministry had to change every document from Eurasia to East Asia.
17.) The book defines every detail about the Brotherhood and is believed to have been written by Emmanuel Goldstein.
18.) A totalitarian regime is a form of ruling that allows the commander or leader to control every single thing of public and private behaviors. The policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party were like the policies that the Party of Oceania had. Both of the parties attempted to form their people into full fledged supporters of their party and would stop at nothing to get them to become one. If you did not believe in what they had to say or what they believed in then you were going to be executed. In the novel 1984, you were "vaporized". Vaporization means you get canceled out of existence, if you went against their rules and limitations. The German party also killed millions of people simply because they were different. Each party tried to make their states follow the rules that they enforced, and in order to see that they were followed, Big Brother placed a "telescreen" on every corner and in every living space. The German party had their own version of keeping lives under watch by putting everyone who was an "alien", according to Hitler, in a "camp", where most of them were later killed. Both the Party in 1984, and the Totalitarian regime, that Hitler followed, had the same ideas of keeping people "in line". If you were thought of as a suspect, or weren't thought of as equal, or thought of as a threat to either Party, you were killed. Each of the two Party's rules aren't for the bettering of the people, but they are meant to keep secrets hidden, and to lie about everything in order to ensure safety of the party. When taking Jews to work camps they would take them into gas chambers, stating that they were only going to be showered down. Each party promoted the lying and killing of anyone that stood in their way. Each party took civil rights away from their citizens.
BOOK II QUESTIONS
1) Propaganda is “official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political effect.” Propaganda is used all over the world to persuade people to believe the same way others do. It can persuade them to take action, to support something, or even to change their minds about whether something is right or wrong. Propaganda is especially popular during wars. During World War II, poster about supporting the war efforts or joining the military could be seen everywhere. These posters encouraged people to be more patriotic and help their country in times of need.
In 1984, propaganda is a key factor. It gives the government power, and helps them to sustain that power. Posters of Big Brother on every street remind people that the government is everywhere and there is no stopping them. They control everything and they make sure that everyone knows it. Their messages consist of how great the Party is and that people should help out in any way they can. There are even posters of their enemies, Goldstein and Eurasia, that try to raise everyone’s rage and hate against them. The Party also uses their slogans as propaganda. Their contradictory mottos brainwash the people. They get the people thinking that they make sense in some intellectual way and that the government is always right. With the help of telescreens in every Party member’s home, they are able to communicate their evil little messages constantly. The people can’t escape the Party’s propaganda. To the people, everything they say makes sense because it is all that they know. The government is even trying to eliminate their language to narrow their thinking even more. With propaganda surrounding the people of Oceania, the only thing they can think about is how great the Party is and what they can do to help.
2) While walking down the hallway, the dark-haired girl fell on her injured arm. When Winston grabbed her hand to help her up, she slipped a piece of paper into his hand. Later, Winston was alone enough to read the note that said, “I love you.” Winston was shocked and didn’t know if this was a trap or if it was a trap or if it was true.
3) After many attempts at getting the dark-haired girl alone at lunch, Winston finally succeeded. She told him to meet him to meet him the next day in Victory Square. They were interrupted and she gave him directions to a new meeting place.
4) Winston went to Victory Square to meet with the dark-haired girl. As soon as he saw her, a parade of vehicles came through carrying Eurasian prisoners. Winston pushed his way through the buzzing crowd. He finally got to the dark-haired girl and they were able to quickly arrange another secret meeting place.
5) Julia got Winston’s first gift on the Black Market. It was a piece of chocolate wrapped in silver paper. It wasn’t what Winston was used t because it was “dark and shiny” instead of “dull-brown crumbly stuff.”
6) Julia and Winston planned to meet for the second time at an old church out in the country. Since they couldn’t use there other meeting spot again because they could be followed, Julia knew the church would be safe. It had been bombed years ago, so it was the perfect place for their next meeting.
7) “Talking by installments” is how Julia and Winston communicated in public. They carried on a conversation somewhere crowded and away from the telescreens. They wouldn’t dare ever look at each other. When they had to part, they stopped, sometimes mid-sentence, and picked up the next day where they left off.
8) Julia had a pretty positive look on life. “Life as she saw it was quite simple.” She believed that you should break as many big rules as you can while obeying all the small rules to get away with it. She thought that you should always have a good time, even if the Party didn’t want you to.
9) Our first view of Winston was that he was a lonely man who did not fit in. While everyone else worshipped the government like a God, he sat as home wishing things were different and pretending to be like everyone else. Ever since Winston bought the diary, he has become more against Big Brother than before. And with Julia in his life, they continue to beak rules together.
10) Initially, Winston believed that the Brotherhood was an organization with secret meetings and code words. Julia even suggested that the government had simply made it up. But Winston found out when he and Julia met with O’Brien that the Brotherhood was actually a secret group of people who rebel against the government under certain orders. They know that they will be caught eventually and they are willing to die to possibly make the future a better place to live.
11) Winston discovered that Julia was a person that didn’t understand what the party was doing. She knew it was all lies, but she accepted them and didn’t care why or what the truth really was. Winston said that people like her “simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind.”
12) The first time that Winston talked to O’Brien was at the Ministry of Truth. O’Brien came up to him and mentioned an article Winston had recently altered. He also mentioned Syme, which was thought crime since he was vaporized. Winston took this as a secret message that had turned the two of them into accomplices. O’Brien offered him a dictionary and gave him his address, telling him he could come over and pick it up.
13) Winston’s dream brought up many memories from his childhood. He remembered when his father left and how they never had any food. He also remembered being selfish and stealing his dying sister’s food. He remembered running away, coming home to with his mother and sister gone.
14) Even though Winston had just met O’Brien, he trusted him completely. He admitted to him that he and Julia were enemies of the Party and they hated the government. He also told him that they were adulterers and thought criminals.
15) Being a member of the Brotherhood meant that you had to do anything. You had to be willing to become a different person with a new job and face. You had to be willing to kill innocent people and even commit suicide if necessary. Your life had to be completely dedicated to the brotherhood.
16) The great flurry of activity at the Ministry of Truth during hate week was caused by the announcement about the war. The roles of everyone had switched. Eastasia had become their new enemy, while Eurasia became their new ally. Everyone at the Ministry was freaking out because everything they had just made for hate week was wrong. And work became crazy because this big change meant history had to be changed.
17) The “book” is like the Bible of the brotherhood. It was written by Emanuel Goldstein and the members all read it. It reveals the lies of the government and tells the truth about the wars. It gives the members the truth about everything.
18) Totalitarianism is a “form of government where the ruler is an absolute dictator.” He or she has complete power and control over the citizens of his country. A lot of the ruler’s power is gained through propaganda and lies. The novel, 1984, by George Orwell, tells about a man named Winston Smith who lives in a totalitarian country. Everything from his job to his language is controlled by the government, who was symbolized by Big Brother. There are also many examples of totalitarianism governments throughout history, such as Cuba during the rule of Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin, and when Adolf Hitler dictated Germany. When Adolf Hitler dictated Germany, he had absolute control. He eliminated all political parties except his own, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or NSDAP. This party was often referred to as the Nazi party. If anyone opposed this party, they were killed. This is similar to what the government did in 1984. Their party was simply referred to as the Party. That was the only political party and if they found out that anyone opposed them, then they were arrested by the Thought Police. Big Brother and the Party receive a lot of power from lying to the people through propaganda. The people are always reminded through posters and news about how their life is great and before Big Brother ruled, their lives were horrible. They are told that they should be thankful because Big Brother loves them. This same thing happened in Germany. Hitler promised his people better lives. Through propaganda, he convinced the people that he would be a great and trustworthy ruler. These of course were lies and once Hitler had power, these promises were forgotten. He used his power to kill millions of Jewish people out of hate which he developed when he was younger.
1) Propaganda has been used since man could speak and put down thoughts on paper. It is used to make people feel or believe a certain thing. It is used to make people join a certain cause or think a certain way. Propaganda only conveys the thoughts and ideals of the person or group who made it. The creator of that certain piece of propaganda doesnt share all the facts about the situation or message its conveying it only conveys what they want you to believe. it is amost like telling a lie because they do not reveal all the facts.
Propaganda is largely used during wars or to represent very contraversial topics, such as abortion or immigration. In the past posters were the main type of propaganda. However propaganda can be used in speeches and the media not just poster representations. The Nazi’s were a group who used alot of propaganda to make people believe that whatthey were doing to the jews was okay. In world war one and two propaganda was used to cinvince people to enlist. They tried to make the war seem not as bad as it was because no war is good obviously. Some propaganda was used just to remind people who their "enemy" was. Just like in 1984 with the images of Goldstein and how everyone hated even the sight of him. Today propaganda is displayed in magazines, posters, billboards, speeches, T.V., and every possible form of media. In George Orwells novel 1984 propaganda is used pretty largely. There are huge posters everywhere with pictures of big brother that say "Big brother is watching you. This causes the people to always feel like theyare under constant surveillance so they will try to be perfect patriotic citizens. The two minutes hate is also a form of propaganda. It keeps the people hating the enemy who they have never seen it keeps them hating Goldstein who they're not even sure if he is still alive. In 1984 propaganda has a huge hold on everyone. The citizens of Oceania are quite literally brain washed.
2) I Love You
3)Winston knew it would be risky to meet the girl. So he knew the only chance he could talk to her at all would be if they were alone. So for about a week he tried to get her alone in the canteen. When he finally did they arranged a day to meet eachother without looking at eachother or even saying goodbye.
4) They were bringing in prisoners of war from Eurasia.
5)Julia gives Winston a peice of real chocolate. Julia got the chocolate from the black market.
6)There seconed meeting was in a stuffy belfrey in an abandoned church.
7) They couldn’t have complete conversations for fear of being caught. So wherever they left off in the conversation is where they picked up the next time they saw each other. Thus the meaning of the phrase talking in installments.
8)She did everything that o perfect party member would do. However, she only did this as a cover up. Julia hated the party and viewed life as something that should be lived for the enjoyment of it. And she would break any of the party rules to enjoy herself. However, unlike Winston she was not affected by th party's propaganda and she didn't care about the totaliterian style govt. She lived to do the things she wanted.
9)Winston is now completely against the party and no longer thinks he is crazy for such. He is also happy. He isnt dragging through life as much and he believes he has something to live for. Winston begins to see that somewhere near or far the future will be better. Winston since being with Julia realizes the party must be stopped and life is worth liveing. He is also willing to do anything the brotherhood needs him to do to destroy the party.
10) A group of people that are against big brother. It could be a handful or thousands there is no way of knowing how many people are involved.
11) She didn’t really care that the govt. was erasing history and changing it to what they wanted. She wasn’t really that concerned with how they were trying to control everyone or the many falsifications. She only cared about anything that interfered with her personal affairs.
12) At the ministry of truth in about the same place where Julia had fallen.
13)Winston recalls a time when the wasnt enough food for his mother, sister, and himself. He then remembers how bad a kid he was. He didnt want to share the food with his family he wanted it all for himself and didn'y care what happened to his family. But His mother loved him anyway and gave his life for him though he couldnt remember exactly how.
14)He yold him that him and Julia were lovers and guilty of thought crime. He also told him that they were completely against the party and the ideals of Ingsoc. He said that they were willing to do anything if it would help bring down the party.
15) You would never know who else was in the brotherhood. If you were captured you would receive little or no help. You had to do what you were told without knowing why. You had to be able to kill yourself whenever you were told. Also if the brotherhood thought it was necessary to change your face by surgeries you would have to do it without a question.
16) They changed whom they were fighting against. So they had to delete everything about the previous war from all media and forms of communication.
17) “The Book” is the a book written by Goldstein. It reveals the reasoning behind Big brothers govt. It also explains the slogans and is pretty much a low down on everything that Winston is going through. It helps Winston know he isnt crazy.
1.Propaganda has been around for centuries. It is a way in which people persuades other people to buy or do something. It is a way of convincing such as jumping of the bandwagon because everyone is doing it. Such as if there was a new product out and everyone has one it is a propaganda bandwagon for you would want to jump on the bandwagon, too, and buy it. Also people uses propaganda through posters and billboards, especially when they want to bring awareness to something, like Autism Awareness posters or amber alerts, so people can get the attention to others. Right now with Autism numbers soaring there are meaning ways through propaganda to send out awareness like through walks and groups. Propaganda can be used to make people do something like join a group. Years ago when there was a war happening in the world there would be posters up for people to join the military and sorts. There would be signs convincing them to join the marines or army to be a man and help their country. Propaganda is also used through magazines a lot. For example right now when you look through the magazines all the people you see, especially women, are all thin, so it makes other people want to be thin. This happens a lot to people who want to fit in or be like everyone else or can be self conscience about them. Nowadays though the big propaganda user is the television with all the commercials to buy something or to be like the people they see on television. It is a wide going spread. In 1984 there is a lot of propaganda through posters. The political views in the book are very much propaganda as so the posters saying “Big Brother is Watching You.” The political views work to help people join their side in their thoughts and opinions. In the posters of “Big Brother is Watching You,” makes people remember the thought police are out and they would get in trouble if they do anything against them and their laws. Propaganda is used throughout the world and is around you everyday. It is a persuader and convincer in everybody’s lives and the world works through it.
2.In the first chapter of the second book, the dark-haired girl fell. As Winston helped her up she slipped a piece of paper into his hand. When he opened it up it said “I Love You.”
3.He really wanted to meet the girl at the canteen. He had to wait because everyone kept sitting close and he wanted them to be by themselves. They eventually had a meeting together quietly and left without saying anything.
4.The commotion was through a caravan of passing prisoners through Victory Square. They went to see them and watch them pass by as they shouted at them.
5.Julia got her first gift for Winston on the black market. It was a real piece of chocolate.
6.It was planned for them at an old ruined church where an atomic bomb had fallen.
7.Talking by installments was a way they would talk. When they would start a conversation and would be abruptly end, so the next time they would talk they would start where they left off.
8.Julia was a woman who tried to be simple and just enjoy the time she had no matter if she was breaking the rules of the party.
9.Winston has changed in a way that in the beginning he was for the party and abided by the rules. Now he’s with Julia he is against the party and is committing a crime by sleeping with Julia.
10.The brotherhood is a group or organization that doesn’t like the party and are against it, so they try to bring the party down.
11.Julia didn’t care much for the party she just wanted to work on the parts of her life them the party touches. She just wanted to go against the rules for her happiness.
12.He spoke in the hallway with O’Brien close to the place where Julia slipped the note into his hand. They were right in front of the telescreen.
13.His dream brings up a memory he had of his mother and younger sister. That his mother cared for him and took up so much time to take care for him even though he was not the best of a child. That his mother loved him and protected him.
14.He told O’Brien of his hate for the party, of how he did not believe in the principles of Ingo. That Julia and him committed crimes of the thought police and they slept together.
15.When you were a member of the brotherhood you would be willing to do anything to bring the party down. Just like being a member of the freemasons.
16.The great flurry of activity in the Ministry of Truth was that Oceania went to war with East Asia instead of Eurasia. They had to change the records in accordance.
17.“The Book,” is something in the brotherhood that everyone must know of and read. It tells of all the general principles and everything of their union especially the motives.
18.A totalitarian regime is a government that runs every aspect of the people’s lives. A person living under it mostly supports it through extensive propaganda missions with a positive view of the government. Often people are afraid to criticize the government under such conditions. The concept of it in politics arose in the 20th century. Mostly known are Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Also sometimes communist countries like China and North Korea are referred as totalitarian government, too. The most widely known is Germany and the Nazi regime. In the 1940’s, right after the Great Depression, a man named Adolph Hitler was on the rise of total power due to he wanted to rule the world. He tried to rule every aspect of his country, even the way the people looked. He had this idea of a perfect race made of the idea of Plato’s story of Atlantis and the people. He wanted a race like the Atlantis’s people. To do that he killed people that didn’t fit the description or was a Jew or gypsy. Many died because of the cause. This is exactly like in 1984 because they have the Big Brother thought police always watching them. They had rules that the people had to abide by and was a crime to break them. He could even be put to death if they learned he was keeping a diary. There were signs everywhere reminding them Big Brother is Watching You. The exact type of rule of a totalitarian regime. That is due to the description and ways of the government for they practically run their lives for them and if they do anything against the thought police they’d get in a lot of trouble. The government of a totalitarian regime is not a good way of ruling and is the reason for the group “The Brotherhood” who in the group is against them.
Kaleb Kozee
2nd Period
1. Propoganda is a totalitarian government's primary tool of swaying their citizens ideals and brainwashing them into doing their bidding. Propoganda uses sharp imagery and powerful words to persuade or even scare people into beieving something. This is a shockingly effective technique.
Propoganda was most famously used in Nazi germany during WWII. Hitler's regime used war posters and banners with large words on them that inspired patriotism to their bastard country. This is very reminescient of 1984, because the book was heavily persuaded by 1984. Its important that a country uses this so that they dont have a mass of angry citizens and non-followers. It was also used in America at the same time. The famous "Uncle Sam" posters were just as equal of an example of propoganda as germany. It has all of the requirements of a piece of propoganda, the Striking image, the powerful and blunt sentence, and an attempt to strike patriotism into the viewer. This was greatly succesful.
Propoganda is the reason why the party has such power in 1984. 2 minutes hate is nothing but a sheer example of propoganda and how powerful it is. They show false images on the screen, and allow anger to flow through the minds of the viewer. The big brother posters are even more of an example of propoganda, the party puts a powerful image on a poster, and uses short blunt sentences to scare the people into succumbing to their will. They used it right, even though they may have abused it, and truly became a totalitarian government.
2. The girl gave wintson a note when he helped her up that said, i love you.
3. Winston wanted her alone, so he approached her in the canteen. She was popular among the the other men, and it took awhile for winston to get her alone. When he did this, it was just a quick exchange, and they left like nothing had ever happened.
4. The happening was a caravan of prisoners being transported through the square. The prisoners were all eastern asians, so the people thought of this as a rare sort of delight. So the people in victory square shouted and yelled at the prisoners.
5. It was a piece of chocolate in which she purchased on the black market.
6. It was planned in a ruin of a church, that had been devastated by an atomic bomb.
7. This was winston and julias way of communicating to eachother. They never really had time to sit down and talk to eachother for a good amount of time, so they used this to keep their conversations going between meetings.
8. Julia thought life was meant to be there to serve against the party. Julia used her image perfectly as a member of the party, but inside she was a devout rebel.
9. Winston is now definate in his views on the party, as where in the beginning he just thought he disliked the party. Winston is breaking the rules of the party majorly now that he is sleeping with julia.
10. The brotherhood is a party of people against the party. They are a secret society that works to destroy and bring down the party.
TO BE CONTINUED
1)Propaganda, it was the early media. It was used to
change peoples views, They were Posters with over
exaggerated pictures. They did not say much but their
little sayings were very influential.
propaganda played a major part in 1984. There
were posters posted everywhere saying "big brother is
watching." This book displays what propaganda can do to
influence peoples minds.
This form of media, was used long before people
really had anything like a television, radio, or
internet. They had this to communicate through and try
to change peoples views
2) The message read "I love you"
3)He had waited for a day she was alone at her table,
which was hard because people had been going and
sitting by her all the time. He one day went as far as
tripping someone, because he thought they were going to
go and sit next to her.
4) A passing convoy of Prisoners.
5)Some real chocolate that she had gotten at a black
market.
6)The second meeting was planed to be in an old
church,out in the country. The place was not in good
shape for it was where an atomic bomb had fallen years
before.
7)They were conversations, that had stopped
spontaneously, and were later picked up at a different
meeting spot. To make it more safe to communicate.
8)Julia viewed life to be simple, basically just live
as long as you can and have fun while your at it. She
was basically a free spirit.
9)Winston had changed a lot through out the book. He
had started as a normal man who followed all of the
rules, listened to whatever he had to. He had later
changed and became against the party. Committing major
crimes like sleeping with Julia and thought crimes.
10)The brotherhood is a band of people who are against
the party. They are an underground organization, who
work to bring down the party.
11)She had thought that it was only important to break
the rules that invaded her life.
12)He talked to him in a hallway right infront of a
telescreen.
13)His dream had brought memories from his childhood.
He had seen what a horrible kid he was and regrets it.
He had stolen his sisters chocolate, when that was all
they had to eat so she was left with nothing. He
believes that he was the cause of his mother's death.
14)Winston had admitted to O'Brien that he hated the
Party and that he was a criminal of thoughtcrime. He
had also told him about the things he has done with
Julia. He admits that he wants to take down the Party.
15)The difficulties of being part of the brotherhood
were major. It had meant that you were willing to be
cut off from any other person that you loved, willing
to die for what you believed. You had to be willing to
change your identity and if you were ever captured you
were to speak nothing of the brotherhood. Basically
willing to do anything to be secretive in order to
bring down the Party.
16)They had changed there enemy. Instead of being at
war with Eurasia they switched to being in war with
Eastasia.
17)The book contained the real history of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. It tells of things that were not
meant to know by all the people. The brotherhood read
this book. It was written by Goldstein. It told of what
the party does and what motivates the party to do what
it does.
18)Totalitarianism is a type of government that, rules the people. In 1984 The Party was that Totalitarianism.
The totalitarianism in 1984 can be related to Adolf Hitler in the Holocaust.
In 1984 Big brother and the party had controlled the people. The people were told what to believe and what to do, how to do it and when to do it. They could not make choices for themselves and if they thought about rebelling they were vaporized. They were in a dictatorship. They had no rights, they were given the very very basic needs to survive.
In world war II Adolf Hitler had started a holocaust. This was to the Jewish people. They did nothing wrong, Hitler just did not like them and decided to make them do whatever and he decided to kill them off. Hitler thought that the Jews had no purpose and should not be able to live or if they did, they should be controlled. The were also told what to do and how to do it and when to do it. Hitler was a Nazi and had soldiers under him doing anything and everything he had told them to do. If the jews were to live they were given barely anything to survive on. Since they were to live for a while they were made to work. They were put in striped prison like clothing and put into concentration camps where they were to work. They had to dig they're own graves and stand around them and get shot and fall in one by one. All because one man did not like the Jewish people.
The relations between 1984 and Hitler's holocaust are very similar. They both controlled absolutely. They killed because they did not want independent thought. They took away there identities. They meant nothing really and were made to work and made to believe what they were told to believe.
Hillary Johnson
3rd Period
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Propaganda is dissemination of information that is aimed to change the opinions of a large number of people. Propaganda often presents facts to encourage certain messages, even if it means that you have to lie to do it. Propaganda is the way to attempt the shape perceptions, manipulate thought, and direct behavior to achieve a thought that a propagandist wants you to believe. Most of the time, propaganda is used in advertising and public relations. This promotes a commercial product or shapes the perception of an organization, person or brand. Propaganda has also became more common in political contexts, in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments, political groups, but also often interests produced by politicians. Propaganda is produced in a variety of ways. It is provided in a public place, such as posters, television, newspapers and many more. This was used very much during World War ll. It was typically referred to political uses of these techniques, or to the promotion of a set of ideas, which the government could not accept. During WWll, the government created new agencies to make propaganda an acceptable way of interpreting information. In the novel 1984, propaganda was used widely through the whole novel. At the beginning there were posters hung everywhere that said, “Big Brother is watching You!” or posters saying the three slogans that would say, “Freedom is Slavery”, “War is Peace”, and “Ignorance is Strength.” The poster about Big Brother meant that if somebody broke the rules, then the Party would find out about it, and you would be punished. The slogans mean that if you want to get something, then you have to give a little. Each slogan kind of contradicts itself, because the conclusion is the complete opposite of the beginning of it. The telescreens that were all over Oceania showed propaganda tried to convince everyone to hate the enemy. Propaganda was used greatly throughout this novel.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
The dark haired girl’s, also known as Julia, message said, “I Love You”
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
Winston knew that he needed to see her in private to talk. He was confused on how he was going to approach her though, because he did not want to get caught. So one day at lunch, they just happened to sit at the same table, and they had a conversation. They had this conversation secretly though, not looking up or at each other, to not make anything obvious.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
Victory square was the place where Winston and Julia decided to meet so that they could talk and not make it look obvious. During this time, there was a big commotion caused by a caravan of Eurasia prisoners.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
The first gift from Julia to Winston was bought from the
Black Market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
Julia and Winston had to meet some place where nobody could see them, so Julia tells Winston to take a train to the countryside and meet her in an old church, somewhere in the woods.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
Talking by installments was something that was made up by Julia and Winston. It was their way of communicating. They could carry on a conversation and then stop their conversation when they thought that there was any chance of them getting caught. Then when it was clear, they would pick up their conversation where they left off.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia viewed life with just accepting what was going on, and to have as much fun as possible. She did not quite agree with the Party, but felt as if she could not change anything that went on, so why would she act miserable all the time. Though, any rule that she could break, she was for it, knowing that she will get caught one day.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Since Winston has met Julia, he has changed a great amount since the beginning of the story. At the beginning of the story, he felt bad for committing Thought Crime. Now, he does not feel bad for breaking the rules, because he realizes that somehow, he will get caught eventually, so why not have fun while doing it. Julia’s spirit has helped him come to this conclusion.
10. What is the brotherhood?
The brotherhood was a group that Winston wanted to become a part of. The leader of this group was Goldstein, who Winston looked up to. The brotherhood was a group who wanted to fight against the Party, and they would do anything to destroy big brother.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Winston cared about all of the party’s and every rule that they made for him to abide by. Julia’s free spirit, makes her only worry about the Party’s that effect her and their rules, just so that she could break them.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
Winston first spoke to O’Brien close to where Julia gave Winston his note. It was near a telescreen. O’Brien stopped Winston on his way back to his office.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
Winston’s dream brought up memories of him and his family when he was younger. These memories included the day that his dad left their family, and how that lived in poverty, until the day that he stole a candy bar, and then ran away from his family. Winston never saw his family again.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Winston tells O’Brien that he wants to be included into the Brotherhood. He expresses this by telling him how him and Julia had broken the rules and had a relationship. He hoped that this would convince O’Brien that he should be in the brotherhood, by looking like he breaks the rules all the time, and enjoys doing it.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
Being in the brotherhood was a very dangerous commitment. This job included committing pure hatred toward the Party and you would have to do anything to just get once inch closer in destroying it. One would have to take ones life, if it was necessary, to be closer to taking down Big Brother.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
During hate week, the Party realized that they had been in war with the wrong country. All along, they had been fighting Eurasia, when they really needed to be in war with East Asia. This means that the Ministry of Truth had to change all of the documents about the war from Eurasia, to East Asia.
17. What is "the book"?
“The Book” was a book that told all of the faults of the Party and Big Brother. This had been written by Goldstein, who was the leader of the Brotherhood. This book included the truth about everything, and not the lies that the Party had made up and forced everyone to believe. The book was a required reading of anyone who wanted to become a part of the brotherhood. Whenever Winston was meeting with O’Brien, O’Brien gave Winston this book to read.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
Totalitarian is a concept used to describe political systems where a state controls nearly every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarian regimes maintain themselves in political power by embracing propaganda to everyone in its party. Totalitarianism is one of the harshest types of government ever known to man, and one of the worst dictators of this type was Adolf Hitler and his Nazi’s regime. Adolf had harsh hatred toward all Jewish people and made most of them suffer. Hitler would kill the Jews for no reason, maybe just because they looked at him in a weird way. This all took place in the Middle Eastern part of the world. Hitler would starve people for days just for torture, and send the Jews to conservation camps where they would just work for days, until they would die. Hitler’s totalitarianism regime can be compared to the way that Big Brother treated the citizens in Oceania. Big Brother and his Party tried to control every thought and every move of their citizens. If the citizens would not cooperate then they would be punished. They would practically just disappear from Oceania and nobody would ever see them again, like Hitler did with the Jews. Hitler also shortened the food variety from the citizens, just like the Party did in the novel 1984. Both of the groups of totalitarianism also used propagandas in many ways to influence the support of their wars, or to say what was right from wrong in their eyes. During Hitler’s regime, there were posters stating to let Hitler be, and that what he was doing what right. This is like the posters in 1984 used for propaganda, that would influence the people to not do anything wrong because big brother was always watching them. These regimes were alike in many ways, because they both had states of totalitarianism.
11. Julia believed in thwarting the party's movements, whereas Winston wanted to completely destroy the party. Their views were similar, yet different.
12. It was in the hallway where he first met Julia, right in front of a telescreen.
13. His dream was reminescient of his mother and sister. He saw himself as a terrible son, yet his mother still loved and cared for him, and ultimately died for him. She always tried to give him her best no matter what the consequence.
14. Winston admitted to o'brien of his hate and determination against the party, and how he would do anything to bring them ultimately down. He also told him about his relationship with Julia and how they defy against ingsoc.
15. Being a member of the brotherhood meant always acting in the dark, and being very secretive. Determination and dedication was a requirement, and you had to risk death to be a true member of the brotherhood.
16. The flurry was inspired because of Oceania going to war with the wrong country, Eastasia, instead of Eurasia. So the ministry was strong at war with the records, changing them into war with eastasia insted of Eurasia.
17.The Book” is the manual of principles that all Brotherhood members must read. The book explains everything about the party and it’s motives, and was written by the leader of the Brotherhood, Goldstein.
1.Propaganda is aimed to influence the opinions of a large group of people. It is the deliberate spreading of information, rumors, or ideas in order to either help or harm a person, group, place, etc. Propaganda can be anything from a flyer or poster to a spoken opinion.
Propaganda has especially been used during times of war – often to persuade people to enroll. However, propaganda is used frequently today as well, although it may not be apparent. As we have learned in class, a famous artist named Shepard Fairey has influenced many with his propaganda. In fact, he created many of the Barack Obama posters that people see today, such as the posters that say “HOPE” and “PROGRESS” at the bottom of Obama's portrait.
Propaganda is often displayed in modern times during elections and other political matters. However, we don't see it as just posters and flyers – it is shown on television and even in newspaper articles. Propaganda has numerous different mediums. Others include: ad hominem, ad nauseam, appeal to authority, appeal to fear, appeal to prejudice, bandwagon, black and white fallacy, beautiful people, big lie, common man, demonizing the enemy, direct order, disinformation, euphoria, flag waving, glittering generalities, half truth, intentional vagueness, obtain disapproval, oversimplification, quote out of context, red herring, name calling, labeling, and slogans.
Propaganda is used in the novel “1984”. The propaganda shows how much Oceania is controlled by the party. It is apparent throughout the novel – starting from the very beginning of the novel at Victory Mansions with the picture of Big Brother with the statement below it: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Also, Two Minutes Hate is a motivation to the people to express their hate to the enemies – another example of propaganda. These examples of propaganda are a constant reminder to the people that they are controlled by their government.
Propaganda can be anything from a rumor to a poster. I think that as long as people have opinions -- which I feel is inevitable -- that propaganda will continue to exist.
2. She slipped Winston a note that said "I love you".
3. He made plans to meet her in the canteen and had to wait until she was alone. They spoke in low voices, so that no one would be suspicious of them. They agreed to meet somewhere that was private.
4. The disruption occurred after a group of Eurasian prisoners passed through in Victory Square. The people expressed their dislike for them.
5. Winston is not used to "real" chocolate, because he is used to getting "dull-brown crumby stuff", as he described it. Julia gave him genuine chocolate, bought off the black market.
6. They agree to meet at a ruined church.
7. "Talking in installments" was how Julia and Winston referred to their way of communication. They weren't always able to carry on a full conversation, and sometimes had to continue it minutes or even days later.
8. Julia didn't break the rules in order to revolt; she did things in order to satisfy herself. She wanted to live her life to the fullest, as people would say. She seemed to be an active member of the party, and someone who followed the rules, but she was actually the opposite.
9. In the beginning, readers could see that Winston was loyal to the party, even though he didn't really want to be. However, as the novel progresses, he begins to rebel against the party. His hatred for it becomes more apparent.
10. The brotherhood is a group that hates the party, led by Goldstein. Their main goal is to eventually bring down the party.
11. Winston had more understanding of how the party worked, while Julia did not. She didn't really have an interest in it, either. She was just interested in the present and on how she was going to avoid being caught.
12. They speak for the first time where he received the note from Julia.
13.Winston's dream reminds him of a memory from his childhood. He said that his mother used to make many sacrifices for him, even though he was always selfish. Then, one day he came home and both his sister and mother were gone.
14. He admits that he thinks O'Brien is party of the Brotherhood, and that he wants to join as well. He also admits that he and Julia have broken laws.
15. Being a part of the brotherhood pretty much means that you're putting yourself in jeopardy. You have to abide by any rules, and be fully committed. If you get caught, there is no chance of the brotherhood saving you, either.
16. Oceania decided to go to war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia. The Ministry of Truth was in a rush trying to "change" the past.
17. "The Book" was written by Goldstein, the leader of the brotherhood. Everyone in the brotherhood had to read it, because it criticized the party and their beliefs.
18.
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in the novel? Write a response of no less than 300 words that answer these questions.
Propaganda is a type of art media used to influence people. Throughout the years it has served many purposes as many people use it to get their message across on many different issues.
Propaganda can be used in many different ways, whether its posters, billboards, T.V. commercials, etc. it’s all aimed at the same goal: to target you and get you to believe a certain way. Many people may use a funny slogan to get your attention or create a commercial so ridiculous that you can’t get it out of your mind such as Geico: so easy a cave man could do it! These are tricks used in propaganda to make sure you don’t forget the message.
Propaganda can be used to instill not only positive thoughts, but negative ones as well. In the past and even now propaganda is being used a lot in the war and other political issues. In wars such as World War I and World War II propaganda was used to persuade people to enlist for the war. As gas prices soared propaganda was used to inspire people to speak out and do something about it. Even during times of election, propaganda is used to spread negative thoughts and pull your mind a certain way.
In the novel 1984, propaganda was used mainly to instill fear in the party members and make them believe a certain way about everything. What the party thinks is what you think and there’s nothing you can do about it because Big Brother’s watching. This was a slogan of the party and posters covered Oceania with a big guy with eyes following you, representing Big Brother. As the slogan says, somebody is always watching you and only your thoughts if even them are private. Because of this people acted the way that was right in the eyes of the party. The party used tactful thinking to try to drive certain thought s away from its people such as desires and thoughts against the party.
2. What was the dark-haired girl's message?
As Winston was walking down a back street, he met Julia as she had tripped and fallen. As he lifted her to her feet, he felt a note being slipped into his hand. The note read “ I Love You”.
3. How did Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
The dark-haired girl was very assertive and liked to take charge. Because of this Winston wasted his time stressing about contacting her because she contacted him and planned everything out.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
A convoy of Eurasion Prisoners was passing. Because of this the crowd swarmed and there was a huge commotion in Victory Square. Thankful for this event, Winston could safely meet with Julia without fear of suspicion.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
Julia’s first gift for Winston was chocolate unlike any kind he’s ever tasted. This chocolate was not dark, bitter and with the remnence of smoke from a rubbish fire. She bought it on the black market.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
The second time that Julia and Winston met was in the tower of an old church. The church had been bombed thirty years earlier. Even with the dusty and dirty conditions they still had an enjoyable time talking and getting to know each other.
7. What is "talking by installments"?
A process in which Julia and Winston would depart each other at mid sentence. The next time they met they would continue where they left off. This clever isea would come in handy if they were under suspicion.
8. How did Julia view life?
Julia had settled with the fact that they were all going to die eventually, but she decided to make her life worth it. On the inside she disagreed, but she did not commit foolish acts to send her to her grave. She thought that they couldn’t stop her from believing the way she wanted to, so because of that she rebelled inwardly about many policies.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
In the beginning Winston was lonely and did not know that much about the government he lived in, but to be honest he really didn’t care. He knew he didn’t like the way it was ran and he didn’t agree with the party, but he didn’t have the desire to rebel. Being miserable was just something he had gotten used to. Since this time, Winston became more educated about the government and the past, mainly through his curiosity and time spent near proles. He met Julia who instilled youth and gave him a reason to try to survive. He decided to join the brotherhood and secretly fight the party.
10. What is the brotherhood?
The brother hood was a top secret unity of people who wished to fight the party. Because there was no list containing all of its members, it could not be considered and organization. No one knew exactly everything, but they knew their secret missions to rebel and take the party down. It was led by Emmanuel Goldstein.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about the same thing?
Winston became curious of the government and wanted to know about the past and inner workings of the party. Julia on the other hand didn’t care, all she knew was that she wanted to rebel on the inside. The things that she didn’t feel affected her firsthand were of no importance.
12. Where did Winston first speak with O'Brien?
The first time Winston spoke with O’Brien in person was near the same spot he encountered Julia on the street. On a back road where he felt safe; although he soon discovered a telescreen. At this place O’Brien gave him his address in case he needed to “contact” him.
13. What memories did Winston's dream bring up?
In Winston’s dream he recalled memories of his childhood that had long been forgotten. He dreamt of his mother and younger sister. He recalled the last day they saw each other and his vile behavior. He awoke the long lost mystery of what had ever happened to them. He tried to tell of these memories and his regret to Julia, but all she could do was drift to sleep.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Winston confessed to his thought crime, adultery and hatred towards the party. He agreed to put his life on the line and to doing anything for the party, besides parting with Julia. He asked to be a member of the brotherhood, and fight the party by any means possible.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
Being a member of the Brotherhood involved a great deal of commitment for your cause. You had to sacrifice everything and put your life on the line when you’re told. At any second you could die or be vaporized seeing nothing accomplished in your lifetime. When you end up confessing you can only endanger a few people because that’s all you will ever know of being in the party.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
The government totally turned the tables on the people. After their long war with Eurasia, they suddenly discovered their faults and became at war with Eastasia. At this drastic news, the ministry of truth was overwhelmed with work altering the past and vanishing their faults. Any record left of the war had to be destroyed or altered.
17. What is "the book"?
The book was written by Goldstein. It explained everything about the government, the way it works and its power. Members of the Brotherhood read it for more knowledge of their motives and assurity of fighting the party.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
A totalitarian government is one is which the government acquires complete control of it’s citizens lives commonly through the use of a dictatorship. Whatever the government says goes and that is how you are expected to live, disregarding your own feelings on the matter. A famous example of a totalitarian regime was Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler. This can be compared to the form government in the novel 1984.
In the novel 1984 Big Brother, or in other words the party controls it’s people. It forces them to live in constant fear of their personal thoughts and being detected by the thought police. While on the other hand, Adolf Hitler ruled Germany under harsh decisions ordering the Nazis to kill or send to concentration camps all of the Jews. Big Brother can be compared to Adolf Hitler, in that they both have complete control and run the government by their own sole judgement.
The Nazi’s were the army of Hitlers. They carried out his plans and obeyed his orders at all cost. The thought police in 1984 was the organization that spyed on the citizens of Oceania vaporizing or sending people to forced labor camps who commited thought crime against Big Brother. The Nazi’s and the thought police can be compared in that they both support their leader and go to drastic measures to wipe people out.
Thought crime is the act of being against the party and suspicions of betrayal. In Germany Hitler punished citizens for being of Jewish religion. A thought crime can be compared to being Jewish because they both involve beliefs outside of what the party or dictator wished.
The citizens of Germany are much like the party members in Oceania. They both are forced against their will to act and believe a certain way and they are much like slaves with no voice in their own governments. As you can see the government of Oceania is much like the totalitarian regime of Adolf Hitler.
3rd Period
Book 2.
1.Propaganda is publication of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. It is commonly broadcasted through the media in posters,commericals,magazine ads or any other type of information source. The messages have been carefully designed to influence our opinions, emotions, attitudes and behavior. Propaganda has been used for many, many years.
Propaganda is used throughout George Orwell's novel, "1984". In the novel it is used to prove a point about their government type. For example, posters hung about the town stated "Big Brother is Watching". The message conveyed in this poster is that their party knows, as well as big brother exactly what you're doing at all times. This is a great example of spreading an idea throughout a large group of people. The party logo's are another great example of propaganda. These logos are “War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.” These logos are very well-known, and the people of Oceania know the meaning behind them.
Propaganda is still very commonly used in today's socitey. Although it originated many years ago, it's still a popular form of manipulation. It is still conveyed through the same types of media. The messages today may be for different reasons, but the overall point will always remain the same.
2.The Dark Haired Girl's message to Winston was, "i love you".
3.Winston was having trouble communicating with her, and he needed to get her alone to talk to her. Eventually one day at lunch, he managed to get everyone away and sat at the same table as her. They had a short conversation, but had no contact for the fear of someone noticing.
4. The commotion was evolved by a group of prisoners brought through the town. This seemed like a threat to the people, and lead to them shouting at the prisoners.
5. She gave him a piece of real chocolate.
6.The second meeting was planned to be in the country, at the old ruined church.
7.This was Julia and Winston's way of communinicating, while in the danger of being heard. They usually did this while passing quickly, and between meetings.
8. She tried to be optimistic in most situations, and have fun. She seemed like a perfect party member and someone who wouldn't betray Big Brother when in reality she was exactly opposite.
9. At a first look Winston committed a crime, and led us to believe it was a "once in a lifetime thing". Noe sfter he met Julia he tends the break alot of rules.
10. The Brotherhood is very against the party. They eventually think they party will go down, and they will do everything they can to make that happen.
11. Winston knew in reality what would happen after he committed so many crimes, Julia on the otherhand didn't.
12. At the Ministry, in the hallway.
13. His dream brought back memories from both is mother and younger sisters. It showed him in a clearer way that his mom had unconditional love for him, and will do anything for him.
14. Winston admitted to hating the party and said that he would do anything in his power to bring Big Brother down.
15. You had to take risks, and be willing you even give your life. You had to do exactly as the brotherhood did.
16.The ministry had to go through and diminish everything about Eurasia and change it to Eastasia.
17. "The Book" was created by Goldstein, the leader of the brotherhood. It stated the truth of big brother and the party.
18.
Totalitarianism is system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. In other words, the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. This is very similar to the rule of Oceania, in the novel "1984".
A great example of a totalitarian regime is Benito Mussolini. He was a fascist dictator of Italy. He centralized all power in himself as the leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany. He believed his power was the highest, and if anyone were to disobey him, they would be killed.
The rule of Mussolini and The Party are very similar. For example, if you we're to go against Mussolini you would be killed, as against Big Brother you would be killed, or even worse, vaporized. Although this power seems unruly and unfair, the citizens under both power high respect and cherish the leaders who are above them.
Totalitarianism is not a very reasonable type of government. In today's society I think this would be handled very differently.
Heres my one-through four to ad to my five through 18
1.) Propaganda is a way of promoting what you believe. The purpose for propaganda is to simply try to get people on your side for a cause. Propaganda is used to convince other people that your opinion is the right one and that they should think they same you do. Propaganda has been used throughout the history of the world and throughout the book. Propaganda is shown through usually posters or signs. These signs are usually really great pieces of art that stand out to grab people’s attention. Propaganda can also be expressed through the radio, television broadcasts, leaflets, hoardings, and many more. Propaganda has mostly been used during war times. It was used during the Holocaust and both world wars to change the minds of the people on who they thought had the right reasons for winning the war. Propaganda has also been used in China and other various countries to express their beliefs of religion and to try to convince their rulers that they should be able to have it. The Nazis were said to use propaganda extremely. The Nazis published books and films with nothing but propaganda and made as many people as they could open to these. In the novel ‘1984,’ by George Orwell, propaganda is used a number of times. The only people who seem to use, besides the ministries with the hatred gatherings, was the government. The posters placed everywhere saying that ‘Big Brother Is Watching You’ were the main propaganda source. These convinced people to always know that the government was there and if you did something you would get caught, otherwise it made people fear. The three slogans were also propaganda. Saying that ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength,’ were trying to put ideas in people’s heads that all of these were true and right. There are seven propaganda methods including, bandwagon, card stacking, glittering generalities, name-calling, plain folks, transfer, and testimonial. All of these have been used throughout history and many in the novel.]
2.) When the dark-haired girl slipped Winston the note he thought it was gong to be a summons or something else horrifically bad and he wished not to open it. Then he thought well what if it is good like what if the underground brotherhood does exist. When Winston opened the dark-haired girl’s message, there lay three words, ‘I love you.’
3.) To solve the problems with the dark-haired girl he tracked her down and knew where she would be. Everyday she sat at the same table at the Ministry of Truth when everyone has taken an eating break. He goes to her table sitting down, but not looking up at her at all and her, the same to him. They exchange the words that she needed to hear so that she would not change her mind about Winston. They agreed to meet somewhere without making it obvious so they meet at the monument with large crowds. Then they get to caught up in a commotion and agree to meet again Sunday. This is how Winston got into touch with the dark-haired girl.
4.) In Victory Square when the crowd goes a-wall and starts to scramble everywhere Winston and the dark-haired girl had know idea what was going on. They later came to find that the Eurasian Army had prisoners of war piled in trucks. The trucks were lined up with great length and wood-faced guards filled them. The guards had submachine guns in each corner and passed slowly down the street. Thus, being what caused the commotion.
1. Propaganda is a way to share ideas as well as influence the ideas and viewpoints of others. Propaganda can be done by hanging posters and distributing fliers, but by also the parroting of ideas. In older times, the posters and fliers were much more popular, but in modern times, spoken propaganda has become more popular. In past conflicts, propaganda has been used to mainly influence the ideas of the masses, and to recruit soldiers for war. During WW1 and WW2, propaganda was used with slogans like Uncle Sam’s “I Want You,” telling men to enlist for the protection of their country, and “It Can Happen Here,” trying to influence the people to keep the war going. In major conflicts, there is usually a lot of propaganda, simply because the ideas and views of the opposing sides are different, and each side is trying to influence as many people as possible to believe like they do. Propaganda is still used today, but not so much in posters as it is in speeches by leaders, newspaper articles, television, and media coverage. Today, we are continually manipulated by the ideas of others. In things such as presidential elections, and new laws in Congress, the masses are always being manipulated into thinking the same way as others. Though propaganda has changed it’s medium, it is still widely used today as a way to make an opinion known.Propaganda is a huge part of 1984. All the posters advertising the Party’s views, and the posters of Big Brother help to manipulate the people of Oceania into supporting the Party, and the posters also help to keep the people from rebelling. The famous slogan, “Big Brother is Watching” for example, makes the people feel as if they cannot fight back because they will be caught as soon as they even think about committing the crime. The Party is manipulating the people to believe that there is no hope for them at all.
2. The dark haired girl handed Winston a small folded piece of paper, while he helped her up from her fall. The message read; "I love you."
3. Winston wanted to meet the girl, so he tried to get her by herself, in the canteen, but this took about a week for him to do so. People kept sitting with her, or other people where distracting him, but finally he got her alone. They arranged their meeting quietly, without looking at each other. When the lunch was over, they left without any contact.
4. The commotion in Victory Square was caused by a caravan of prisoners being brought through town. Most of the people had never seen Eastasian prisoners, so they considered it a rare treat, and everyone went out to yell & scream out thoughts, and abuse the enemy.
5. Julia’s first gift to Winston was a piece of real chocolate, which she got on the black market.
6. The second meeting was planned at an old church. The church was located in the country, where an atomic bomb had fallen many years before. This way they knew they weren't being watched
7. Talking in installments was Julia and Winston’s way of communicating between meetings. When they would walk together in the street, or sit together in the canteen, they would talk, but sometimes the conversation would have to end quickly. Then when they meet again, they would have to begin where they left off.
8. Julia thought life was just living as long as you could live, and doing as much as you can to defy the Party. Julia was the perfect Party woman on the outside, but on the inside, she did everything she could to corrupt the Party.
9. The main change in Winston compared to the beginning of the novel, is that now he is against the Party. Winston is seeking out the Brotherhood, and is committing a major crime (like always) by sleeping with Julia. Winston has become an enemy of the Party.
10. The Brotherhood is the people who are against the Party. They worked secretly to tear down the party. They'll do anything they can to destroy the Party, even if it costs them their lives.
11. Julia didn’t think that taking down the Party was important, only breaking their rules where they touched her life. She didn’t understand or want to understand the Party. Julia just wanted to break the rules, she liked it.
12. Winston first spoke to O’Brian in the hallway, same place as Julia, right in front of the telescreen.
13. Winston’s dream brings up one of the last memories he has of his mother and little sister. He remembered his mother always loved him, and gave her life to protect him, though he still couldn’t remember how. Winston’s mother always put him first and tried to give him what he wanted, no mater the consequence for her or Winston’s little sister.
14. Winston told O’Brian about how he hated the Party and would do anything to bring them down. Winston admitted that he and Julia commited thoughtcrime, and they were willing to do anything for the brotherhood
15. When you were a member of the Brotherhood, you have to be willing to do anything, no matter how horrible , if it would help to bring down the Party. You had to be cut off from those you loved and it might even put them in danger, and if they asked you to do the weirdest things, you had to do it. If you got caught, well your pretty much dead.
16. The thing that caused the great flurry of activity in the Ministry of Truth during hate Week was that Oceania went to war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia, and they didn't know this because the party changed the records.
17. “The Book” is the manual of principles that all Brotherhood members must read. The book explains everything about the party and it’s motives, and how they should stop the party. It was written by the leader of the Brotherhood, Goldstein.
18. Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all resources, labor, and people are controlled by the government. A modern totalitarian government would be the Nazi regime from the early nineteen hundreds. Aldolf Hitler started the Nazi regime by discriminating and controlling everything. In a sense Hitler is like Big Brother in the book 1984, because- although Big Brother was not a real person, just a figurative idea- he ruled the totalitarian regime know in the book as Ingsoc. In 1984, Big brother and the Party control everything. They control the resources, the people, how the resources are used, and even how people think. Even people’s everyday lives were controlled.This is very similar to Hitler’s rule. Hitler controlled all the people, and pretty much killed those he didn’t like. Hitler controlled the resources, and how they were used. He even controlled the everyday lives of people, just like big brother and the Party in the book.Although the Nazis and the totalitarian regime in 1984 are very similar n some ways, they are also very different. Hitler, was only trying to destroy a certain group of people, which was the Jews. But the Party people wanted to be able to kill everyone, no matter what they were. The Party wanted to get rid of all independence in people, and all Hitler wanted to do was kill all the Jewish people.Another difference in the Party and the Nazis was that the party controlled history and was always changing it to fit what they were doing at the time. Hitler and his Nazis never did this. They did not have the resources or the means in which to do this. The past still existed under Hitler’s rule, though just like in 1984, the past doesn’t really matter. Both of these totalitarian regimes oppress and ultimately destroy the people they seek to control. Someone who wants power, whether it is one person or the collective minds of many people, rules both. Both Hitler and the party did the things they did to get power over others, and that is the most important similarity.
Kala Brown
11-20-08
Mr.Parsons
2nd Period
1) What is propaganda? Propaganda is the thoughts, images, and symbols that are able to persuade a group of people to think in certain way. The main reason for propaganda is for people to think of a message that is said unto them, very easily to understand. Once they read the message they comprehend what is trying to be brought out. They don't want everyone to question the message trying to make it a challenge. It has many ways to tell how it is used and the different types of it. As I researched I found that there is three different types of propaganda. Those three types are known as White, Black and Grey propaganda. White propaganda generally comes from an openly identified source. It has methods of persuasion, with things like public relations techniques and one-sided presentation of a diagreement. Black Propaganda is saying that it is from one source of information, when it is relly from another one. Then the last type is grey propaganda. This is something that has nothing to identify itself, or the person who wrote it. One of the biggest things is making the enemies believe falsehoods. It was used as a very good weapon in war long ago. It was used towards the enemy and also to create hatred against a special group. This was because it helped create a false image, and information in their minds. They would use special words, or say things that the enemy was responsible for things, when they never did. In the novel 1984 propaganda played a big role. In this time they were making everyone believe that they were being contolled, by what they done, said or even read. One of the sayings was "Who controls the present controlls the past." This meant that the goverenment, or Big brother was responsible for what was happening. In the book, Winston said, "To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone- to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone." It's kind of like saying that the government makes all the rules, can change them at anytime, and that everyone has to go by them for their own freedom.
2) The dark-haired girl’s message that she gave said “I Love You.” At first he thought that it was some kind of political meaning. She must have been part of the thought police just as he suspected before, and she was giving him the paper for the thoughtpolice. The letter might have been telling him an order to commit suicide, a trap of some description, a threat, or even a summons. When he read what he really said, he was stunned, and had to read it over to make sure that the words were really there.
3) He said that it was a physical problem that had to be solved: how to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting. He no longer considered the possibility that she might be laying a trap for him. He knew this because of her unmistakable agitation when she handed him the note. The thing that worried him the most was that if he didn't get in touch with her soon then she would quickly change her mind. But the physical difficulty of meeting was enormous.
4) Winston and the girl had made plans to meet at Victory Square, but where going to wait and talk to one another when people had gathered around. Winston had showed up five minutes after the hour and the girl had still not appeared. He started to get that feeling that she wasn’t coming she had back out. As he was walking towards the St. Martins Church, he noticed her standing at the base of the monument pretending to read a sign. He wouldn’t go near her until a few others gathered around, because there was telescreens everywhere. Suddenly everyone seemed to be running across the square, and was shouting remarks that a convoy of Eurasians prisoners was passing. A long line of trucks with wooden faced guards armed with submachine guns standing upright in each corner, were passing down the street.
5) Julia got her first gift for Winston at the Black Market. It was chocolate bar that was dark and skinny. It had an unusual smell; it was a different type of chocolate.
6) The second meeting place planned was the Belfry of a ruined church in an almost deserted stretch of country. Thirty years earlier this was where an atomic bomb had fallen. It was another hiding place that Julia had known of. It was a very dangerous place to be at, but was a good hiding place once found.
7) "Talking by installments" was a type of conversation that Julia normally used, and what she liked to call it. It was how they communicated to one another. Also was a way of talking to each other without having to move their lips.
8) Julia viewed life as if it quite simple. She liked breaking the rules, because if you wanted to have a good time then that was what you had to do. She liked to think that it was natural that they should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid of being caught.
9). What changes have taken place in Winston's life as compared to our first view of him?
Throughout the novel Winston changes himself as the more we read of him. In the beginning he was like a worrywart, always being scared that someone was watching his every move. Then when he met Julia his thought about things changed. He was willing to do whatever it took just so that he could be with Julia.
10) Brotherhood was a reality, there still remained the difficulty of finding ones way into it. He had told Julia of the strange intimacy that existed between him and O'Brien and the impulse he sometimes felt when he was in the presence of O'Brien.
11) He told her the story of what happened to his friends. People were always being killed of all the time. He tried to make her understand that killing wasn't an exceptional case. The things that had happened the day before had already been abolished, or had been done away with. Nothing exists except an endless present that in which the Party is always right. She said that she wasn't ready to take risks against things with the Party.
12) Winston first spoke with O'Brien was when he walking down the long corridor, almost where Julia had slipped the note to him. O'Brien had made a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking to him.
13) The memories that Winston's dream brought up was that he believed that he had murdered his mother. He remembered his childhood life after his father had left. Then it was just he, his mother and his baby sister. They had spent most of their time in underground shelters hiding from the air raids in Tube Stations.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O'Brien?
Some admissions that Winston made to O'Brien were that he hated the Party. He didn't like the way that they had done things. So him and Julia decided that they wanted to join brotherhood, so they drank the wine and was put into brotherhood.
15. There were many great difficulties that were contained in being a member of the brotherhood. To be in this meant that you was up and ready into doing whatever it took, or asked to do. Whether it meant being ready to commit suicide, or crime, or even changing your identity so that you wouldn't be found if something bad had happened. By willing to do this, meant that you were doing this for your own freedom.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the ministry of truth during hate week?
During the middle of Hate Week, Oceania had switched enemies and allies in the war that was going on at that time. At a rally, the speaker who was talking decided that Oceania was not at war with Eurasia, or had ever been to war with them. Then he later on said that Oceania had been at war with Eastasia all this time.
17. "The book", was written by Goldstein. Winston thought that this book must have been Goldstein's last message. The future belonged to the proles.
18) The word totalitarian in the dictionary means designating of, or characteristics of a government or a state in which one political group maintains complete control and illegalizes all others. Then regime means like a political or ruling system, which helps control things. For example a totalitarian government is out to control not just all the economic and political matters but also to control the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population, erasing the distinction between state and society. As part of the citizens duty and job to their country or state main concern of the community. Also the goal of the state to have the society that they have now be turned into a better, more perfect society. A totalitarian regime has many characteristics. Some of them are things like the existence of an ideology that talks about all aspects of life, it also outlines the final goal, and a single big sized party in which the people gather around with energy, and give support. A party like this is normally led or run by a dictator. A dictator is someone who is the ruler, and also has absolute power and authority over everything in their country. A really good example of a dictator is Adolf Hitler. Germany was ruled under his power from the year of 1933 until the year 1945. He was only one ruler out of Eighty-eight. In the novel 1984, totalitarian regime was also used. The ruler in this type of case was Big Brother or the government. They controlled everything that it's people done. They would watch them by using surveillance cameras, telescreens and thought police. In order for the people to do what they wanted to for privacy, they had to come up with their plan, to work around big brothers plans. For them to do what they want, they would have sneak around just to break a few rules. By having big brother control things, they have to come up with different schemes, to inform. They use techniques such as computerization of information, and they use billboards to get the word out. They do this so that they can make countries totalitarian societies. They both are compared to one another because they both a ran by someone who decides and makes all the rules for the liberty of their life’s, or freedom. But they have to be careful with what they do because they know that they are being watched.
1. What is propaganda? When has it been used, and how? What role does propaganda play in this novel?
Propaganda is the posters that try to inform, remind, or coax a person(s) into doing something. The posters are set to say a variety of things and in each of the posters. They try to send a message to anybody that reads them. During the time of World War II, the propaganda posters were used to help recruit people to join the army, help their country, and anything that had to do with the war. Many messages were sent to the citizens, and the posters had done it’s job. The posters were put with pictures that help give ideas to the people on how to help. Some of the posters had pictures of factories, and others with a hospital on it. All showed different ways to help. The propaganda in the novel ‘1984’ had a negative influence, and struck what fear it could among the people of Oceania. The posters were around every corner, on buildings, anywhere that the people of the city could see them. The posters always said something about Big Brother, and had the same meaning, fear your government, they are watching. The same message that did its job.
Propaganda has and still is used throughout the country even as it’s the 21st century. The military uses it to get people to join, sometimes it works, but they normally use TV ads.
2. What was the dark-haired girl’s message?
The note she wrote to Winston said what he wanted to hear, “I love you.”
3.How does Winston solve the problems confronting him in getting in touch with the dark-haired girl?
They decide to meet at Victoria Square, but only in a crowd of people, at nineteen hundred hours.
4. What caused the commotion in Victory Square?
The transportation of prisoners in greenish uniforms was squatting in the trucks; jammed close together.
5. Where did Julia get her first gift for Winston?
She got him some ‘Real Chocolate’ that she got from the black market. The normal chocolate that the outer party get is only a synthetic that has no real taste to it.
6. Where was the second meeting planned (time together-not passing in the street)?
It was the belfry of an old abandoned church, in an abandoned part of the city due to an atomic bomb being dropped there.
7. What is “talking by installments”?
Julia’s way of saying that she talks to somebody about something and then must stop because of somebody coming by that is a Party member, or they pass a telescreen.
8. How did Julia view life?
Somewhat positive, she only thought life was meant to survive as long as possible, and to defy the party and break the rules.
9. What changes have taken place in Winston’s life as compared to our first view of him?
The fact that he understands what the party is actually doing, and the fact he is against the party altogether. He had been against the party from the start of the novel, even if he had never admitted it to himself.
10. What is a brotherhood?
A brotherhood is an association or small society that helps other brotherhoods with in an area or city. In the novel, the brotherhood is the rebellion against the government.
11. Being with Julia, Winston discovered that understanding what the party was doing was so important. What understanding did Julia not have about have about the same thing?
That she was only breaking rules, and not actually taking down the government. She believes that she was taking it down in her own way.
12. Where did Winston first speak to O’Brien?
In the Ministry as Winston was trying to get a note from Julia when he noticed O’Brien was following him.
13. What memories did Winston’s dream bring up?
The dream brought the memory of when he thought he killed his mother and sister. It was when he was a “swine” according to Julia. Winston, as a child, had always complained about being hungry. Always tried to get more than he was given. Spoiled as spoiled can be. A chocolate ration had been issued and Winston’s mom had split an equal share of chocolate that they had between the three of them. Winston took his little sister’s chocolate and ran off with them both. Wondering the streets, and when he returned home, they were gone, he never saw them again.
14. What admissions did Winston make to O’Brien?
Winston went to O’Brien to join the brotherhood, and by doing so, confessed to him everything that he did that broke the law. There-by exposing what he did showed that he had been ready to do anything that was necessary that involved being against the party.
15. What great difficulties were contained in being a member of the brotherhood?
The things you were told to do, the different things that they did against the government that they hated.
16. What caused the great flurry of activity at the Ministry of Truth during hate week?
During the hate week, the Ministry had to change the records of being in war with Eurasia and instead being engaged in war with Eastasia.
17. What is “the book’?
The book is a manual or the code of conduct for the brotherhood. It was meant to be given to a member for two weeks for them to read, and then you were an official member.
18. Research a totalitarian regime of your choice and write a 300-word response comparing it to the regime that rules in 1984.
The totalitarian regime I chose is the Holocaust, when Adolf Hitler was the all-supreme ruler of all Germany. His rule sent many Jews into hiding, which rationed the food they had, they were under a sort of house arrest because if Nazi officers caught them, they were sent to concentration camps.
In the novel, anybody that is caught thinking or having anything that has to do with bringing down the government, they were vaporized. Which compared to Hitler’s reign, was like you were sent to a concentration camp.
1) Propaganda has been used since man could speak and put down thoughts on paper. It is used to make people feel or believe a certain thing. It is used to make people join a certain cause or think a certain way. Propaganda only conveys the thoughts and ideals of the person or group who made it. The creator of that certain piece of propaganda doesnt share all the facts about the situation or message its conveying it only conveys what they want you to believe. it is amost like telling a lie because they do not reveal all the facts.
Propaganda is largely used during wars or to represent very contraversial topics, such as abortion or immigration. In the past posters were the main type of propaganda. However propaganda can be used in speeches and the media not just poster representations. The Nazi’s were a group who used alot of propaganda to make people believe that whatthey were doing to the jews was okay. In world war one and two propaganda was used to cinvince people to enlist. They tried to make the war seem not as bad as it was because no war is good obviously. Some propaganda was used just to remind people who their "enemy" was. Just like in 1984 with the images of Goldstein and how everyone hated even the sight of him. Today propaganda is displayed in magazines, posters, billboards, speeches, T.V., and every possible form of media. In George Orwells novel 1984 propaganda is used pretty largely. There are huge posters everywhere with pictures of big brother that say "Big brother is watching you. This causes the people to always feel like theyare under constant surveillance so they will try to be perfect patriotic citizens. The two minutes hate is also a form of propaganda. It keeps the people hating the enemy who they have never seen it keeps them hating Goldstein who they're not even sure if he is still alive. In 1984 propaganda has a huge hold on everyone. The citizens of Oceania are quite literally brain washed.
2) I Love You
3)Winston knew it would be risky to meet the girl. So he knew the only chance he could talk to her at all would be if they were alone. So for about a week he tried to get her alone in the canteen. When he finally did they arranged a day to meet eachother without looking at eachother or even saying goodbye.
4) They were bringing in prisoners of war from Eurasia.
5)Julia gives Winston a peice of real chocolate. Julia got the chocolate from the black market.
6)There seconed meeting was in a stuffy belfrey in an abandoned church.
7) They couldn’t have complete conversations for fear of being caught. So wherever they left off in the conversation is where they picked up the next time they saw each other. Thus the meaning of the phrase talking in installments.
8)She did everything that o perfect party member would do. However, she only did this as a cover up. Julia hated the party and viewed life as something that should be lived for the enjoyment of it. And she would break any of the party rules to enjoy herself. However, unlike Winston she was not affected by th party's propaganda and she didn't care about the totaliterian style govt. She lived to do the things she wanted.
9)Winston is now completely against the party and no longer thinks he is crazy for such. He is also happy. He isnt dragging through life as much and he believes he has something to live for. Winston begins to see that somewhere near or far the future will be better. Winston since being with Julia realizes the party must be stopped and life is worth liveing. He is also willing to do anything the brotherhood needs him to do to destroy the party.
10) A group of people that are against big brother. It could be a handful or thousands there is no way of knowing how many people are involved.
11) She didn’t really care that the govt. was erasing history and changing it to what they wanted. She wasn’t really that concerned with how they were trying to control everyone or the many falsifications. She only cared about anything that interfered with her personal affairs.
12) At the ministry of truth in about the same place where Julia had fallen.
13)Winston recalls a time when the wasnt enough food for his mother, sister, and himself. He then remembers how bad a kid he was. He didnt want to share the food with his family he wanted it all for himself and didn'y care what happened to his family. But His mother loved him anyway and gave his life for him though he couldnt remember exactly how.
14)He yold him that him and Julia were lovers and guilty of thought crime. He also told him that they were completely against the party and the ideals of Ingsoc. He said that they were willing to do anything if it would help bring down the party.
15) You would never know who else was in the brotherhood. If you were captured you would receive little or no help. You had to do what you were told without knowing why. You had to be able to kill yourself whenever you were told. Also if the brotherhood thought it was necessary to change your face by surgeries you would have to do it without a question.
16) They changed whom they were fighting against. So they had to delete everything about the previous war from all media and forms of communication.
17) “The Book” is the a book written by Goldstein. It reveals the reasoning behind Big brothers govt. It also explains the slogans and is pretty much a low down on everything that Winston is going through. It helps Winston know he isnt crazy.
18)A totalitarian regime is a government that runs every aspect of the people’s lives. A person living under it mostly supports it through extensive propaganda missions with a positive view of the government. Often people are afraid to criticize the government under such conditions. The concept of it in politics arose in the 20th century. Mostly known are Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Also sometimes communist countries like China and North Korea are referred as totalitarian government, too. The most widely known is Germany and the Nazi regime. In the 1940’s, right after the Great Depression, a man named Adolph Hitler was on the rise of total power due to he wanted to rule the world. He tried to rule every aspect of his country, even the way the people looked. He had this idea of a perfect race made of the idea of Plato’s story of Atlantis and the people. He wanted a race like the Atlantis’s people. To do that he killed people that didn’t fit the description or was a Jew or gypsy. Many died because of the cause. This is exactly like in 1984 because they have the Big Brother thought police always watching them. They had rules that the people had to abide by and was a crime to break them. He could even be put to death if they learned he was keeping a diary. There were signs everywhere reminding them Big Brother is Watching You. The exact type of rule of a totalitarian regime. That is due to the description and ways of the government for they practically run their lives for them and if they do anything against the thought police they’d get in a lot of trouble. The government of a totalitarian regime is not a good way of ruling and is the reason for the group “The Brotherhood” who in the group is against them.
1. Propaganda was used to recruit soldiers for war and for mases. During world war I and world war II, slogans like the famous uncle sam's "I Want you" to keep the war going. There usally is alot of propaganda when it come to opposing views on a major toopics.
Propaganda is stillused today, but not mainly through posters. Propaganda is used in speaches and by leaders. It is used over the radio and on television. Propaganda has changed its medium but still has the same purpose. It is still trying to influence a persons view.
Propaganda is a major part of 1984 because it is used to show the party's views. It trys to manipulate the peoople into supporting the Pary. They are used to keep people from rebelling by usinig the slogan BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. HTe party used it to make it seem like they had no hope.
2. The dark haired girls' message was "I love you"
3. He was patient and waited for a day she was sitting by herself and tripped a beetle like man who he thought was going to sit next to her. Then they had a conversation that wasn't noticable.
4.The commotion in victory square was caused by a passing convoy of Eurasia prisoners.
5.Julia’s first gift for Winston was a piece of chocolate. She got it on the black market.
6.The second meeting was planned for a ruined belfry of an old church. The church was located in the country, where an atomic bomb had fallen many years before.
7.Talking by installments is when Julia and Winston start a conversation. When someone came close they stop talking completely. When it’s safe to talk again they would pick up the conversation where they left off at.
8.Julia viewed life as being simple.The only thig that Julia wanted was to have a good time and brake any of the party’s rules that got in her way.
9. When we first met him he was depressed and lonely and had no will to llive. Then he meet Julia and seemed happerier and his health improved and seemed to almost love life.
10.The Brotherhood is the people who are against the Party.They work secretly to bring down the Party. The Brotherhood does everything they can to destroy the Party
11.She didn't think bringing down the party was important. She didn't understand or want to under stand the party. She just wanted to break the rules where it kept her from having fun.
12. He first spoke to O’Brian in the hallway in front of the telescreen. This is close to where Winstone forst got his note from Julia.
13.Winston’s dream brought up memories of the last time he saw his mom and sister. It reminded him of a time when he stole his dying baby sisters piece of chocolate.
14.Winston tells O’Brian that he believes that O’Brian is part of the brotherhood. He also tells him that he and Julia are breaking the law.
15.Being a member of the brotherhood could be very dangerous. It could cause to have to do horrible things to you or you friends at anytime.
16. the thing that caused the great flurry of activity was that Ministry of Truth made a mistake about Oceania going to war with Eurasia. They had to correct everything and say they were going to war with Eastasia.
17. "the book" is a manual that contains principles that all the brotherhood members have to read. The leader of the brotherhood, Goldstein, wrote the book and explains it's motives and everthing else about the party.
18. Big Brother In 1984 controlled the citizens of Oceania. It forces them to live in constant fear of their personal thoughts and being detected by the thought police. While Adolf Hitler ruled Germany under harsh decisions ordering the Nazis to kill or send to concentration camps all of the Jews. They can be compared because they both ruled harshly and had complete controll.
The thought pollice was the ary for Big Brother in 1984. They did what it took to keep Big Brother in controll. They vaporized people and sent them to concentration camps under judment of Big Brother. They did these thing with the suspision of a thought crime. It can be compared to Hitler's army of Nazi's. They arrested people, killed people and sent people to concentration camps because they were jewish. They followed Hitler like the thought police followed Big Brother.
Both the citizens of Germany and Oceania are slaves to there country. Neither one of the countries have a voice in their governments.
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