1984 week 2

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1984 week 2

Up to and including 

book 1

chapter 7

Today

• Anticipation guide
• Quiz
• Discussion topics

Goal

• Expectations
• See how you're doing
• Talked about important topics in the book
• Practised English speaking skills

1. Who knocked on Winston's door?

1. Mrs Parson
2. O'Brien
3. Goldstein
4. Big Brother

2. What item did Winston NOT mention as having Big Brother‘s face on it?

1. Coins
2. Stamps
3. His gin bottle
4. Cigarette packets

3. Winston addressed his diary to whom?

1. The past
2. The future
3. O'Brien
4. Both the past and the future

4. Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is.....

5. According to Winston, what is the Party‘s real, undeclared purpose?

1. To prevent men and women from forming loyalties.
2. To remove all pleasure from the sexual act.
3. To eventually require complete celibacy for both sexes.
4. To abolish to school system.

6. What was the starling revelation Winston made when the women he met under the street lamp came into focus?

1. It was his wife, Katherine.
2. It was a trap.
3. She was old.
4. She had blue hair.

7. If there is hope, it must lie in the .......

8. What was so significant about the wad of document with the photograph of Rutherford, Jones, and Aaronson Winston received while working?

1. It was concrete evidence of an abolished past.
2. It proved that three prominent Party members were lying about their whereabouts.
3. It showed proof of the Brotherhood‘s existence.
4. They were Winston‘s long lost brothers.

9. By the end of Chapter 7, who is Winston writing his diary to now?

1. The past
2. The future.
3. O’Brien.
4. Big Brother.

Winston: "I understand HOW: I do not understand....

1. when
2. why
3. where
4. what

"Normal" Life

1984

Now..

In groups of 3/4: what do you know about the following topics?

First discuss with your groupmates, then per group add your knowledge to the mindmap

How does the party
control history? Why?

1. How does the Party control history? Why? 

In order to control the future, they must erase the past so the citizens won’t question or challenge what is done in the present

Emmanuel Goldstein

2. Emmanuel Goldstein 

Leader of the Brotherhood, an underground rebel organization. He wrote the book read by Winston. He is the object of the daily Two Minutes Hate exercise designed to direct citizen frustration away from the Party. 

Jewish name: Considering the fact that WWII with its horror of the holocaust had just ended, the use of Goldstein as a scapegoat parallels the Nazis’ attempt to blame their problems on the Jews.

What if you lived the life
Winston lived?

Next week

Read up to and including chapter 5 (book 2)