1. 1984 Part I, Chapter 5

2. Journal 5  What do you look for in a friend? Would you be happy if you didn’t have any friends?

3. Part 1: Chapter 5  Winston has lunch in the canteen  Description leaves something to be desired…  Deafeningly noisy  Sour metallic smell  Fumes of gin  Greasy trays  Stew has appearance of vomit

4. Part 1: Chapter 5  Winston has lunch with his “friend” Syme  Syme points out that Winston didn’t go to the hanging  Syme is venomously orthodox  Syme enjoys the hanging: the feet kicking, the tongue sticking out

5. Part 1: Chapter 5  Winston directs the conversation to the latest Newspeak dictionary  Definitive edition  Purpose is to destroy words  Synonyms and Antonyms of good….  Good  Ungood (terrible)  Plusgood (excellent)  Doubleplusgood (outstanding)

6. Worksheet  Questions 2-4  Page B, WO 52, WN 51

7. Part 1: Chapter 5  Winston is only translating Newspeak from the Oldspeak  Syme says his articles in the Times are translations  Winston likes Oldspeak “with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning”  Newspeak’s aim is to narrow the range of thought  The revolution will be will be complete when the language is perfect

8. Part 1: Chapter 5  The Oxford English Dictionary  2014 additions: fact-checker, diasporic, skype  Languages continue to ADD  “Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year”

9. Part I: Chapter 5  Syme  Syme will be vaporized  Even though he is completely orthodox, he will be vaporized  Lacks discretion, aloofness, stupidity  Says things that shouldn’t be said  Goes to the Chestnut Tree Cafe  Syme despised Winston, disliked him, and would even denounce him to the thought police, even though they are “friends.”

10. Worksheet  Questions 5-8  Page WO 55, WN 55

11. Part I: Chapter 5  Parsons – Winston’s neighbor  Middle-sized man, fair hair, froglike face  35 years old, fat rolls, but with a boyish movements, appearance of an overgrown boy  Intense smell of sweat  Parsons is in charge of subscriptions (party supporter)  Parsons enters Winston’s contribution “in the neat handwriting of the illiterate”

12. Part I: Chapter 5  Parson’s kids  His little girl followed a stranger wearing different shoes  Turns him in as a foreign spy  Do different shoes automatically mean that he is a spy?

13. Part I: Chapter 5  Telescreen announcement  Standard of living has risen 20%  Spontaneous demonstrations of gratitude towards Big Brother  Yet there isn’t enough tobacco for a pipe  Raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams

14. Part I: Chapter 5  Parsons, Syme, everyone swallows the “INCREASE” in chocolate rations  Parsons can’t hold the numbers  Syme employs doublethink  Others are fanatical about the party

15. Worksheet  Questions 9-11  Page WO 59, WN 59

16. Part I: Chapter 5  Winston revolts against the idea that things are improving  Has food always tasted this bad?  Have buildings always been this shabby?

17. Part I: Chapter 5  “Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.”  No memory of better times  Never enough food, clothes  Furniture, rooms, trains, houses, food all a poor quality  Cold water, elevators/power out

18. Part 1: Chapter 5  Winston characterizes the people around him as ugly  Dumpy little men, stout, swift scuttling, fat inscrutable faces

19. Part I: Chapter 5  Party idea tall, muscular, young, blond, vital

20. Part I: Chapter 5  Winston predicts the future of his comrades  Mrs. Parsons will be denounced by her children and vaporized  Syme will be vaporized  O’Brien will be vaporized  Parsons will NEVER be vaporized  The girl from the fiction department will NEVER be vaporized  Agree? Disagree?

21. Worksheet  Question 12  Page WO 61, WN 61

22. Part I: Chapter 5  The girl with dark hair from the fiction department  Is she watching him?  Listening in on Winston at Two Minutes Hate and in the canteen to determine his orthodoxy  Amateur spy  Facecrime: wearing an improper expression on your face (looking incredulous with a victory announcement)

23. Part I: Chapter 5  Parsons tells about his kids setting fire to a prole woman’s skirt  Wrapping sausages in a poster of Big Brother  Parsons’ kids are given ear trumpets to better spy

24. Part I: Chapter 5  Humanity  “The proles are not human beings” (WN 52)  “from the stream of sound that poured out of [the man’s] mouth, it was almost impossible to distinguish a single world…. For the rest it was just a noise, a quack-quack-quacking.”  “Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.”  “the beetlelike men who scuttled so nimbly through the labyrinthine corridors of Ministries”

25. Worksheet  Vocabulary: Facecrime  Questions 13 and 10  Page WO 63, WN 63