Name: Class Date Due: 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter I: Sections I-II)

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1 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter I: Sections I-II) Define each one. For each word, place a (+) or (-) to show if this word has a positive or negative connotation in the novel. Vile Truncheon Venomous Dissemble Sanguine Nebulous Specious Inscrutable Sordid Defiler Compendium Vaporized Ramifications Despicable Inexorably Sanctioned Superfluous Amalgam Archaic Euphemism Ambiguities Inimical Euphony Panegyric Utopia Answer the following on a separate sheet. 1. Describe Victory Mansions. Why is the name ironic? 2. Describe Winston Smith? Height, built, attitude, etc. 3. What type of invasion privacy exist in Oceania? 4. What are the 3 slogans of the party? 5. List the 4 ministries and their purpose. 6. Why was it so terrible for Winston to write a diary? 7. What hope does Winston have about O Brien? 8. Who is Emmanuel Goldstein 9. What thoughtcrime did Winston commit? What happens to those arrested by the thought Police? 10. What amusements do the Parson children enjoy? 11. What had Winston dreamed 7 years ago? 12. In Oceania society, what is the only thing that can be counted as one s own? 13. Why does Winston consider himself a dead man? 14. What is the purpose of Newspeak? Into what 3 distinct classes are the vocabulary divided into? What happened to all the books written before 1960? 1

2 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter I: Sections III-V) Syme s job is to cut language done to the bone thus eliminating synonyms and antonyms. In Mathematics this was called the last common denominator. Choose 5 words you have defined from sections 1-5 and create a synonym chain for each word. Use a dictionary and thesaurus to assist you in your endeavor. EXAMPLE: vile: filthy> foul> rotten> wretched> bad Statuesque Purges Dace Labyrinthine Comrade Palimpsest Gesticulating Repositories Multifarious Intricate Pedantic Queue Protuberant Orthodoxy Heretics Reverie Answer the following on a separate sheet. 1. Describe Winston s dream about his mother? What do Winston s memories of his mother symbolize? 2. Why doesn t tragedy exist in Winston s world? How is tragedy important in our lives? Think of the Romantics and William Blake s views. 3. What happened to Winston s dream about Golden Country? 4. What is Winston s primary task at work? 5. According to the party, has Oceania always been at war with Eurasia? What about Winston s views? 6. How is reality control an example of doublethink? 7. Syme says, Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. Are there important concerns in our world to which people are unconscious or oblivious. 8. How does the proletariat literature differ from that produced for Party members? 9. Who is Comrade Ogilvy? What does he symbolize? 10. Why does Winston think Syme will be vaporized? 11. Do you think the girl with the dark hair is a member of the thought police? 2

3 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter I: Sections VI- VIII) 1) Define each one. 2) Make 2 well thought out sentences using at least 2 of the words below in each sentence. Debauchery Aquiline Flogged Benevolent Truism Anodyne Pugnaciously Proprietor Groveling Sinecure Answer the following on a separate sheet. 1. Who is Katherine? What is the purpose of sexual relations in the Party s estimation? 2. With whom does Winston believe hope for the future lies? 3. What small scrap of truth about the past had Winston once help in his hands? 4. What does Winston not understand about the Party s destruction of the past? 5. What did Winston mean by writing, Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows? 6. Who do you think dropped the rocket bomb? Does his reaction to the human hand on the pavement remain constant with his character? 7. How is the lottery in 1984 similar to lotteries today? 8. What item does Winston discover at the antique shop? 9. What is so appealing about the room above the shop? 10. Why is Winston fascinated with the proprietor s rhyme about church bells? Overview 1. What crimes has Winston committed in Chapter One? 2. List at least three methods used by the Party to control it s citizens. 3. List some activities in which you regularly engage in that would be considered ownlife. 4. What was the purpose of Chapter One? 3

4 Define the words below WORKSHEET (Chapter II: Sections I- III) Agitation Denounce Parenthetically Pretext Obeisance Infallible Extricate Corrupt Puritanism Etiolated Demeanor Prosaically Answer the following on a separate sheet. 1. Why was Winston s concern for Julia a curious emotion? 2. Do you think Winston s immediate trust of Julia is foolish? Is it justified? 3. Why is it so difficult for Winston to get in touch with Julia after he receives her note? Why can t he just go up and talk to her? 4. Where did Winston finally receive directions to a meeting place from Julia? 5. Why do you think Winston admits his age, his wife, his varicose veins, and his false teeth? 6. Why do you think Winston has little physical desire for Julia in the beginning? 7. How is Julia different from the orthodox Party member Winston had thought she was? 8. Winston stopped thinking and merely felt. How is this reaction out of character for him? 9. Why is their final embrace a political act? 10. How far does Julia s interest in the Party doctrine go? 11. How does Julia explain the Party s sexual Puritanism? Activity Use this diagram to list Julia s characteristics on the left and Winston s on the right. Use the middle circle to list characteristics shared by both. JULIA WINSTON BOTH 4

5 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter II: Sections IV- VII) Lunacy Inviolate Disarming Impregnable Spontaneously Palpable Superfluous Synthetic Abyss Simian Febrile Flagrant Remonstrance Answer the following on a separate sheet 1. Do you think Julia is good for Winston? How has she changed him? 2. What is the permanent place of these two lovers? 3. What surprises does Julia have for Winston in Part IV? 4. How do you think Julia got the inner Party foods? 5. How is the song, Only a Hopeless Fantasy; which the prole woman sings a form of foreshadowing? 6. What fear of Winston s is revealed on page 119? 7. What is the significance of the coral in the glass globe? 8. How sure is Winston that Mr. Charrington is on his side? Is he right to think so? 9. In part VI, what long awaited event occurs? 10. Why does Winston have the sensation of stepping into a grave? 11. From the dream in part VII, what do we learn about Winston s childhood esp. his mother? 12. To whom are the proles loyal? 13. What art does Winston believe the Party has not mastered? Individual Thought: Winston thinks, They could not alter your feelings; for that matter, you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. (page 138) In 1-2 paragraphs, discuss whether or not you, or someone else, can alter your feelings by force of will. 5

6 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter II: Sections VIII-X) Formidable Fecundity Imposture Mutability Impassively Hierarchal Irreconcilable Ossified Persiflage Empirical Avaricious Vilifies Gelatinous Indefatigability Inimical Livid Answer the following on a separate sheet 1. Describe the differences between Winston s home and O Brien s. 2. What is the purpose of O Brien s demands that Julia and Winston agree to do so many unconscionable things if they are asked? What won t they do? 3. Does it surprise you that Winston toasts the past? Why? 4. What events took place that resulted in Winston having to work 90 hours in 5 days. 5. What book does Winston have, who is the author and why does he have it? 6. What question still remains in Winston s mind after he closes the book? 7. What was behind the picture that was screwed to the wall? 8. To whom does the familiar voice belong to? Does this surprise you? 9. How is the smashing of the paper weight symbolic? 10. What is Winston s last image of Julia? T-Chart Draw a t chart and compare the members of the Outer Party and the Proles. Area of comparison can include: % of population, education, living conditions, work, how the Inner party controls them. Outer Party Proletariat Pyramid On this pyramid, divide it into 3 proportional sections. Labels include: Big Brother, Inner Party, Outer Party, proletariat. (Optional) SELF LEARNING: List all the main events of Chapter 2 6

7 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter III: Sections I-III) Define each one on a separate sheet. Additionally list the part of speech that is associated with the word. Racketeering Bade Writhed Overt Posterity Copiously Sanctimoniously Interrogation Exaltation Bludgeon Answer the following on a separate sheet Lethargy Timorously Prevaricate Wantonness Solipsism Desultorily Emaciation Metaphysician Martyrdoms 1. Describe Winston s cell. 2. Does Winston know how long he has been in the cell or what time of day it is? Why? 3. Would Winston commit suicide with the razor blades? Why? 4. Why is Ampleforth in jail? 5. Why is Parsons in jail? 6. What do YOU think happens in Room 101? 7. Did O Brien come to Winston s cell to save him? What do we no know about him? 8. What purpose did the group of Party intellectuals serve? 9. Who did Winston feel was directing his torture? 10. What torture method does O brien use to get Winston s mind to submit to him? 11. O Brien eventually gets Winston to believe that there are five fingers. What has O brien proven? 12. When would O Brien consider Winston cured? 13. O Brien tells Winston that Julia betrayed him, do you believe this? 14. According to O Brien, Reality is in the skull Nothing exist except through human consciousness. Do you agree? (Try this (if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, does it make a sound?) 15. Why does Winston consider himself to be morally superior? 16. After Winston saw himself in the mirror, how did he feel? 17. At the end of section III, O Brien is still not satisfied with Winston, why? 7

8 1984 WORKSHEET (Chapter III: Sections IV-VI) Torpid Carnivorous Capitulated Didactically Answer the following on a separate sheet Frivolity Baize 1. As Winston is allowed to heal, he escapes into what? What had he lost? 2. Based on his dreams what do you know is still left in Winston? 3. What did Winston wake up shouting? Why did this horrify him? 4. How had Winston retreated a step further? What had he realized about secrets? 5. What is Winston s new definition of freedom? 6. Do you think it was wise for Winston to admit that he hated Big Brother? Would he have been sent to Room 101 regardless? 7. What is in Room 101? 8. The climax of the story occurs in Section 5. What is it? 9. Were you surprised that Winston is let out of prison? 10. How has Winston s life changed? 11. What does Winston do with his memories? 12. In the brief encounter with Julia, how did she act? Remind you of anyone in his past? 8

9 1984 WORKSHEET (Supplemental) 1984 Language Look at the words below. In 1984 they have specific meanings, use your imagination and determine what these words would be in our everyday tongue. 1. Telescreen 2. Thought Police 3. Two Minutes Hate 4. Big Brother 5. The Brotherhood 6. Newspeak 7. Ingsoc 8. Inner Party 9. Outer Party 10. Proles 11. Doublethink 12. Vaporize 13. Airstrip One 9

10 1984 WORKSHEET (Supplemental) Doublespeak The military and various businesses use terms that can confuse the average citizen. Examine the military term and locate its meaning. 1. Front-leaning rest exercises 2. Preemtive counterattack 3. Air support 4. Servicing the target 5. Wood interdental stimulators 6. Collateral damage 7. tactical redeployment 8. Large potentially disruptive re-entry system Businesses & Industry 1. Career scanning professional 2. Social expression product 3. Non-performing assets 4. Management turnovers 5. Excessed 6. Controlled flight into terrain 7. Negative patient care outcome 8. Inhalation hazard 9. Resource development park 10. Adult correctional institution 11. Environmentally destabilized 12. Energetic disassembly 13. Guest relations facility Government 1. Sub standard housing 2. revenue enhancement 3. Poorly buffered precipitation 4. Period of accelerated negative growth a. Retreat b. Invasion c. Civilian casualties d. Push-ups e. Toothpick f. Bombing g. Nuclear bomb h. Killing the enemy i. Greeting cards j. Fired from job k. Plane crash l. Polluted m. Dump n. Cashier o. Bad loans p. Prison q. Death in a hospital r. Poisonous gases s. Job layoffs t. Toilet u. Nuclear power plant explosion v. Recession w. Ghetto x. Taxes y. Acid rain 10

11 The World of WORKSHEET (Supplemental) Directions: Information concerning the boundaries of the three superstates that comprise the world of 1984 can be found by reviewing sections 9-10 of Part II. Using the map, complete the following. Part A. 1. Draw a boundary line encircling the area that makes up Oceania. (use a blue pen) 2. Draw the boundary line the comprises Eurasia. (use a highlighter) 3. Draw the boundary line around the disputed territories (Use red) Part B. In which super state (or disputed territory) would the following places be located? a. USA b. Soviet Union c. South Africa d. North Korea e. Australia f. China g. Egypt h. India i. France j. Brazil Part C. 1. Which super state seems to be the largest in terms of land mass? 2. Which super state seems to have the smallest land area? 3. Which one has the most natural protection? 4. Why do you think Orwell did not make the disputed territory a fourth super state that was equal in power to the other three? 5. Does each super state seem equal in power according to their geographical territories? Why or why not? 11