1. 1984: Book 1
Chapters 2-7

3. P. 25—O’Brien and “The Place Where There Is No Darkness”
Dreams
P. 25—O’Brien and “The Place Where There Is No Darkness”
29—Mom, Sister, Dad
30—“Golden Country” and the dark-haired girl ending with “Shakespeare”

4. 28—"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

5. History and Manipulation
32—Real history mixes with made up
34—“Always at war with Eurasia”
34—“if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth”
34—“Who controls the past […] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
38—Winston’s job is to change documents for the Party

6. History and Manipulation: Continued
40--Palimpsest--“a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.”
43—Proles given the lowest intelligence entertainment: sports, crime stories, sex, and sentimental songs. What does this say about our current tastes? Your tastes?
46--“It was better to make it deal with something totally unconnected with its original subject.” How do you change the articles? Sleight of hand. Distraction toward something which hits buttons. “Traitors,” “Thought-criminals,” or heroes (who may not have ever existed).

7. Syme
48—“Friend.” “You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades.”
Works on the Newspeak dictionary
53—Winston thinks: “Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people.”

8. lANGUAGE
51--“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
Bad turns to “ungood,” and intensifiers are “plusgood” and “doubleplusgood.”
52—”the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”

9. 53—“Orthodoxy means not thinking— not needing to think.”

10. Chestnut Tree Café
55--Syme goes there often
Goldstein maybe is seen there from time to time
76—former Party members spotted by Winston: “corpses waiting to get sent back to the grave.”
77—Song lyrics “I sold you and you sold me”

11. 64--He is married to Katherine
Winston
64--Recalls a time with a Prole prostitute (the Party does not punish much because it keeps members from being together. It is “joyless.)
64--He is married to Katherine

12. 69--“If there is hope […] it lies in the proles.”
85% of the population
70--“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
71—“Primitive patriotism” keeps them in check

13. Middle class makes up 50% of the US population (ish).
THE USA
Middle class makes up 50% of the US population (ish).
At or below poverty line: 15-35% depending on definition

14. 81—“reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”
Truth
80-1—2+2 = 5?
81—“reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

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