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Big Brother and the Authoritarian
Surveillance State: George Orwell’s 1984
Part 3
● What is it like to live in an authoritarian country that
constantly watches every citizen?
● How close is the U.S. to becoming an authoritarian
country?
Activity 30: Reading for
Understanding
Skim the list of questions below before you begin to read. As you read, make check marks in the margin, or write on sticky notes to
indicate places where you have found information relevant to the questions.
1984 by George Orwell (Full Audiobook)
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Chapter 1
Answer the following questions:
As Winston waits in the jail cell in the Ministry of Love, he meets the poet Ampleforth and his neighbor Parsons. What are they in for?
Parsons is in for thought crimes reported by his daughter.
What is Room 101?
the room where prisoners are sent to be confronted by their deepest fear.
O’Brien enters the cell with a guard. What does Winston say? How does O’Brien reply? What does this mean?
They got you too!” and O'Brien replies “They got me a long time ago.
Chapter 2
Answer the following questions:
Why does O’Brien say that the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford, which he just showed Winston, didn’t exist and that he doesn’t remember it?
For the Party, does the past have a real existence?
Why does O’Brien want Winston to say that there are five fingers when he is only holding up four? Why isn’t he satisfied when Winston finally says five? What lesson is O’Brien trying
to teach Winston?
Chapter 2, continued...
Answer the following questions:
Winston wonders why they are torturing him if they are just going to kill him anyway. What is O’Brien’s answer?
O’Brien says that the rule of the Party is forever. However, the appendix appears to be written in a future time when there is no Party. Is this a contradiction in the book? Explain.
What, according to O’Brien, is the purpose of the Party?
Why is O’Brien spending so much time on Winston?
Chapter 3
Answer the following questions:
Winston’s torutre and inte
ogation have several stages. What techniques are used in each stage?
According to O’Brien, who actually wrote The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism? What does this mean, if true?
Chapter 3, continued...
Answer the following questions:
O’Brien teaches that there is no world outside of the human mind so that the Party can control reality in the same way that he can make Winston see five fingers when there are only
four. This is “believing is seeing” rather than “seeing is believing,” as we would normally say. Is it possible to so thoroughly
ainwash someone that he or she will see things that are
not there? Explain.
O’Brien says that Winston should imagine a future in which a boot is stamping on a human face forever. Winston tries to argue that such a vision would fail. Who do you think is
ight? Explain.
Chapter 4
Answer the following questions:
WInston thinks he is making progress. He is learning to practice crimestop. What is he learning? What is he hoping for?
Winston has a setback. In a daydream, he cries out. What does he say? What happens to him?
Chapter 5
Answer the following questions:
What is waiting for Winston in Room 101? What does it make him do?
Chapter 6
Answer the following questions:
Winston meets Julia. What happens?
What finally causes Winston to think he loves Big Brother?
Activity 32- Refer to Part 3- Chapters 2 & 3
Issue O’Brien’s Position Winston’s Position
History and Past
Events
The past has no objective existence. Memories and written records refer to an actual past.
Perception
Purpose of Torture
Existence
Powe
The Laws of Physics
The Spirit of Humanity
Activity 32, continued
In a paragraph, summarize the debate between O’Brien and Winston that takes place in the torture sessions. What are the issues?
What are O’Brien’s arguments? What are Winston’s responses? In a second paragraph, respond to the debate. What would you do or
say in Winston’s situation? Does O’Brien really win the debate? If so, would he win without torture?
Activity 34
Some argue that 1984 was written to warn against the dangers of the Soviet Union, but because the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991,
this book is now i
elevant. Do you agree? Should high school students still read 1984?