Book Two, Chapter 8—9
1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
Book Two, Chapter 9
1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984?
2. What three classes of people have always existed?
3. In What ways have these three classes changed?
4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984?
5. What are the two aims of the Party?
6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned?
7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners?
8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist?
9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace."
10. What are the aims of the three groups?
11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century?
12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century?
13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants?
14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power?
15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power?
16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world?
17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class?
18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?
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