February break notes

Michael Rossi
February 15, 2009
English 10 Honors/ Mr. George
Notes

· Winston believes that the proles could easily conquer the party however the lack the intellect to do so, this suggests that Winston believes he could lead the rebellion. (70)
· Party claimed that the proles were not subject to its laws and rules. “proles and animals are free” (71)
“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. (71)

· (74) party’s ideal of a people is for them to be identical working fighting, persecutiong etc.
· “(75) counterrevolutionaries survived to this day, three of them, Winston saw them in the café.
· “And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking other wise, but that they might be right” (80)
· “if there is hope it lies in the proles” (82)
· “It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity“(82)
· “The proles were nearly always right when they gave you a warning of this kind. They seemed to posses some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming” (84)
· (92) Winston wanted the old man to admit that his life was better before the party, however that was not the case.
· “And when memory failed and written records were falsified – when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.” (93)
· (97) Winston was stuck by pleasant surprise when he learned that the potential living space in the attic of the antique shopkeepers room had no telescreen.
· “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s!” (98)
· Winston believes the girl is following him because she was right behind him after he left the antique shop.
· Mr. Charrington is the antique shopkeeper.