7. Part II chapter I, II

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals for today 

Consider paragraph responses 

Considering central topics in part 1 

Consider an extract from Part II

Add to the characterisation of Winston 

Orwell's intentions in Part II, chapter II 

Each group will be given a topic.

Develop Orwell's message on this topic in part 1 

Sex​

Love​

Politics​

Control​

Rebellion​

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Why is the girl from the Fiction Department not given a name?​

On the topic your group have been given, combine your reactions to how that theme is evidenced in Part I ​

​Represent your ideas as a mind map

You need to make notes on…​

Key quotations​

Key events​

Winston's reaction and opinions on this topic 

Writers Intentions​

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What points of similarity does it have with Part One Chapter One?​

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What differences does it have?​

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How realistic (within the world of 1984) do you find the events?

Consider part II chapter I and answer these questions in your exercise book

• Beginning of the end for Winston and Julia​
  
• A decisive moment in the narrative when events become the driving force rather than reflections​
  
• It does not begin with the diary – rather than reflection and remembrance, the novel now picks up pace and is about action​
  
• Part One is there to set the scene, Part Two is there to move the story on​.
  

What is the importance of part II chapter I:

Listen and read along to this extract from Part II chapter I 

Answer these questions in your exercise book or Teams notebook: 

1. What is the purpose of this extract?​
   
2. What techniques are used to convey the purpose(s)?
3. ​How does Winston react?​
   
4. ​What problems or concerns does this extract give the reader?​

Free indirect discourse

AWL

Winston - add information 

Inside: Winston’s physical characteristics and personality traits   

Outside: significant points relating to his physical surroundings or environment, as well as any relationships he has formed​

and his attitudes to significant aspects of his world​.

short quotes and page numbers 

What reactions do we have to Winston and Julia’s emerging relationship?​

What does Orwell want us to think or feel about this turn of events?​

Consider the distinctions between love and sex. Fill out a form like this in your exercise book.

Love is ...	Sex is ...
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Linguistic investigation. Looking closely at diction. 

Find in your text these linguistic techniques and examples which link to the following headings…​

• ​Sexual language​
  
• ​Emotional language​
  
• ​Natural language​
  
• ​Jarring or unexpected language​
  

Purpose Winston and Julia in Part II, chapter II

• Allowed to understand Winston’s feelings through free indirect discourse once more​.
  
• Natural imagery becomes a symbol for his own feelings and emotional state. 
  
• Normally description relies on simile but in the presence of Julia Winston’s feelings are intensified and Orwell employs metaphor with increasing regularity – ‘pools of gold’ and ‘misty with bluebells’​
  
• Significant contrast with the previous chapter and links to the ‘Golden Country’ of Winston’s dreams​
  
• Realism is injected with Winston’s temporary impotence. Could this  imply distrust in the relationship?​
  
• Julia is only able to explain her attraction as reading his face and knowing his rebellion. Is it as easy for the Thought Police too? Desire is unexplained, and her access to real chocolate begins to be questioned by the reader. Do we trust Julia? 
  

What are Orwell's intentions?

• Julia is more important to show us Winston’s development as a character than as a figure in her own right​. 
  
• Links to the proles, only seen through Winston’s eyes and not allowed to be a developed idea or a possible overthrow of the system. 
  
• Act of tearing off her sash reduces Julia to a symbolic figure, reflecting Winston’s view of life – his rebellion is not actually to do with love but with seeing sex as a political act and a means of undermining the party​
  
• Irony – by using sex as rebellion and not actually for love, Winston is in fact following party doctrine – Orwell questions nature and function of love​
  

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Concepts HL language and literature 

Concepts we generated: 

Control, Rebellion, love, politics, sex 

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