1984 chap summaries and analysis

CHAP ONE

• winston-apartment, face big bro everywhere 
• immeditaley obvious london grim and totalitarian
• starts diary 
• begins to write stream of conscious about going to movies
• then recalls being repelled and attarcted to young women
• brief moment with obirn

ANALYSIS

• forboding tone wich prevails novel
• 'gritty dust' ;hallways smelling of boiled cabbage'
• other main characters intro by winston
• initally sees julia member of orthodox authority 'general clean mindedness'
• feels comradership with winston
• doubelthink-holding 2 opposing ideas
• victiry mansions=contradictory image to boiled cabbage 
• BIG BRO MIRROS STALIN

CHAP TWO

• winstons neighbour mrs parosn and his kids call him 'traitor'
• returns home to compelete diary thinks of obrien 'we shall meet again in place where no darkenss;

ANALYSIS

• dream meeting obrien no darkenss-reoccurs-meets him in prison 
• mutability of padt and existsnece through memory=prominent themes
• how can an idea survive if past not allowed to exist?
• HITLER AND STALIN DISTORTED PAST AND REQROTE HISTORY TO MAIATIAN ILLUSION SUPREME PIWER
• a fatalistic character 
• thoughtcrime IS death=goal to stay alive as long as possible

CHAP THREE

• dreams of mother and sister and belives he repsosible for their death
• dream chnages to golden country-with dark haird gilr 
• awaken with 'shaksepare on lips'
• physcial jerks 

ANALYSIS

• his life is genuine and as bad as decried 
• overview of winstons past=helps us undertand world of oceania
• premis of eng socialism very idff to what is in ocenia 
• golden country=what is lacking in wisntons life
• shakespeare=nostaligia 
• 'PAST HAD NOT BEEN ALTERED..IT HAD BEEN DESTROYED'
• memory and histroy major themes 
• party book claism to have invented aeroplane -THIS CLAIM ACTUALLY ALSO MADE BY GERMANS WW2
• winston certain this not case

CHAP FOUR

• detail about winstonds job
• records department ministry truth
• rewrite article of someone now in big bros disfavour
• he creates captain oglivy=given same authority as living ppl

ANALYSIS

• memory holes-records are detroyed 
• political system of society 
• forging te past 

CHAP FIVE

• at lunch his friend dysme lectures him on principles of newspekas-lose words=narrow range of thought by 2050
• parsons joins them-tells them about kids who on watch for unorthodix behvaiour 
• telescreen anounces chcolate ration going up-but day before being reduced
• sees julias 

ANAYLYSIS

• when lang corrupted=thought cotmainiated 
• lang streamlined by detsroying words-aymons etc only confuse issues 
• ;plusgood'
• orwell beleived decline in lang=political conseunces 
• NAOM CHOMSKY 'LANG CONTAINS SIM STRUCTURES TO RULES..FACT EVERY CHILD COULD ACQUIRE LAGN EASILY'

CHAP SIX AND SEVEN

• confesses in diary-cising prostetute-repulsive=exacerbates desire for pleasant sexual experince 
• thins about iwfe katharine-he coudlnt stand her orthodoxy 
• chap 7 writes hope for proles to chnage society 
• recalls time  when sitting in cafe next to three men who were later arrested as enemies 
• at one time pic of these men in his desk=once in league with party and at time when accused of reason-actually at party finction=forced to confess to false crimes 
• freedom is freedom to say two plus two makes four

ANALYSIS

• party controls ppls most intimate feelings 
• winston corrupt as still has active sex drive etc
• he envies proles if only the become conscious 
• STALIN SOVIET UNION-WORKING CLASS OUTNUMBERED…