1984: Book 2

It is the emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and it represents Julia's duality in character. She is both sexual, rebellious and cunning, as well as a devoted and zealous Party member

What does Julia's red sash symbolize?

To look at the tenth edition of the Newspeak dictionary.

What does O'Brien invite Winston to come to his house to do?

Winston believes the final message of Goldstein's book must be that the future belongs to the proles.

What does Winston believe must be the final message of Goldstein's book?

Thinks the paperweight represents the rented room and that the coral in the center represents his life with Julia.

What does Winston imagine the paperweight represents as he gazes at it?

Mr. Charrington is actually a member of the Thought Police.

What does Winston realize about Mr. Charrington?

That she is "only a rebel from the waist downwards."

What does Winston tell Julia that she thinks is "brilliantly witty"?

Winston thinks "how small it always was."

What does Winston think when he sees the fragment of coral from the broken paperweight?

"Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!" (Mr. Charrington)

What does the "quite different voice" that follows the iron voice say?

A rat

What frightens Winston in the room and reminds him of a recurring nightmare?

Winston has been working eighteen hours a day altering records to reflect that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

What has Winston been doing that has kept him from reading the book for six days?

Both Winston's mother and the Jewish woman on the news film were holding and protecting their children with their arms even though they were powerless to actually keep their children safe.

What is important to Winston about the arm gestures made by his mother in his dreams and by the Jewish woman on the news film?

Winston and Julia immediately trust each other, so this risky behavior was done carelessly. Unfortunately, the Thought Police knew about this rebellion, and were spying on them the entire time.

What is ironic about Winston's thoughts when Julia hand him the note?

Winston believes it means that he finally has proof the Brotherhood--a conspiratorial organization exists, and is against the Party.

What is the "one possible meaning" Winston believes the meeting with O'Brien could have?

The one thing the Party cannot do is alter an individual's private feelings; they cannot "get inside you."

What is the one thing Winston and Julia decide the Party cannot do?

To part and never see each other again.

What is the one thing Winston and Julia say they are not prepared to do on behalf of the Brotherhood?

Inner Party members can occasionally turn off their telescreens

What privilege does O'Brien say Inner Party members have that surprises Winston and Julia?

She became "completely spiritless," going about her work very slowly and apparently waiting for something to happen.

What sudden change came over Winston's mother after his father's disappearance?

The three groups are the Low, the Middle, and the High.

What three groups of people have existed throughout human history according to Goldstein's book?

A political act

What type of act does Winston feel sleeping with Julia was?

The room above Charrington's shop

Where do Winston and Julia begin spending their alone time together?

The iron voice comes from the telescreen hidden behind the picture of St. Clement's Dane.

Where does the "iron voice" that addresses Winston and Julia come from?

Tortured into confessions in the cellars of the Ministry of Love

Where is Winston certain he and Julia will end up before their executions?

That the two of them should think of themselves as already dead because they have defied the party, and happiness is impossible under the Party. The only possible victory against the Party lies far in the future.

At the end of chapter 3, what does Winston feel Julia is too young to understand?

A Eurasian soldier marching forward while pointing a submachine gun.

During Hate Week, what is depicted on the new posters that suddenly appear all over London?

It makes him love her even more

How does Winston react when he learns Julia has had many relationships with Party members?

O'Brien makes a reference to Syme, who has become an unperson and therefore should not be mentioned or even remembered.

Through what "small act of thoughtcrime" does O'Brien make Winston and himself accomplices?

Oceania is at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia.

What announcement is made during the Hate Week demonstration in the square?

"Conquering the entire surface of the earth and extinguishing once and for all the possibility of independent thought."

What are the two aims of the Party?

Praises his elegant use of Newspeak in his articles for the Times.

What compliment does O'Brien give Winston?

His name has disappeared from a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee on the notice board in the vestibule of the Records Department.

What detail is enough to tell Winston that Syme has "ceased to exist"—or rather, has "never existed"?

Her portion of chocolate

What did Winston take from his younger sister?

That they are deployed by the government of Oceania against its own citizens.

What does Julia believe about the rocket bombs that has never occurred to Winston before?

With "secret disobedience" or "isolated acts of violence."

What does Julia believe is the only way to rebel against the Party?

Because they still value individual relationships, private loyalties, and the kind of personal feelings that Winston is having to relearn how to feel.

Why does Winston believe the proles have "stayed human" while Party members like himself and Julia have not?

Winston thinks the future will be alien to him because it will be a world of sanity and equality.

Why does Winston think the future world created by the proles will be alien to him?

So the Party can channel that repressed energy into enthusiasm for their own ideology

Why does the Party want to repress people's sexual desires?