Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Book three Chapter 6

1. The chestnut tree, he is sitting at his table in the corner drinking victory gin and playing chess.

2. He works on a sub commitee who works on the eleventh addition of newspeak dictionary.

3. They both addmited they betrayed each other and that they didn't feel the same way about each other, they sat in scilence for most of the time, then he walked her to where she needed to go, and they both agreed to meet again.

4. He doesn't have feelings for Julia anymore, he is proud of the party, he claims his memories are false, he loves big brother.

5. He is explaining how he loves big brother,he is happy that he is cured he is happy the day he has been waiting for, the day he gets shot, came so he could die pure.

Book three Chapter 5

1. He is strapped to the chair, and O'Brien brings in a cage of rats and tells him he is going to open the ecage and the rats will attack him. The fear of the rats over comes the connection he had for Julia and he finally betrays her.

Book three Chapter 4

1. He has a mattress, stool, he gets fed more frequently, he gets to take frequent showers. With his free time he works out, gains weight, writes, and dreams about Julia, his mother, Him, and O'Brien. He is starting to forget what he believed before, he wrote down two plus two is five, freedom is slavery, he is also still betraying them because he wrote god is power, and he still hates Big Brother.

2. He writes god is power, he has a dream and then he hallucinates that Julia is there and starts yelling out her name, showing that she still has a connection with her.

3. He still hates him.

Monday, May 2, 2011

1984 book 3 Chapter 2-3

Chapter 2 book 3

1. He was strapped down and O’Brien had a dial and an electric shock would go through his body that made it feel like his spine was about to snap and his joints where being pulled apart.
2. He is threatening him with the dial that controls the electric shock, he is trying to teach him that the party controls everything, and what they say is how it is. If they say 2+2=5, it equals five not four.
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4. He forgets everything and it was like he had believened the party and all their lies. O’Brien asked him if Oceania and Eastasia where and at war, and that they have been ever sense he was alive, and Winston said yes. The painless shock treatment only lasted so a short amount of time and Winston started to go back to the way he use to think.
5. Winston: “What have you done with Julia?” O’Brian: “She betrayed you Winston, immediately-unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly. You would hardly recognize her if you saw her. All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness, everything has been burned out of her. It was perfect conversation, a textbook case.

Winston: “You Toreture her?” O’Brien: “ next question.”

Winston: “Does big brother exist?” O’Brien: “ Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.”

Winston: “Does her exits in the same way we exits?” O’Brien: “ You do not exist.”


Chapter 3 book 3

1. Stage one: The learning stage. Stage two: the understanding stage. Stage three: the acceptance stage. Winston is about to enter stage two.
2. O’Brien wrote Goldstein’s book, yes, everything that is written in that book is true.
3. The Party seek power for its own sake, they are not interested in others, just power. They say they are different then the powers from the past because they know what they are doing. All the others that resemble them were cowards and hypocrites. The German nazis and the Russian Communists came close to their methods, but never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
4. Slavery is freedom. Alone, free, the human being is always defeated, because every human is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
5. They have to have power not only over their body, but also their mind.
6. It differs because its build off of fear and hatred instead of love. They destroy any connection between people, they brain wash people, torture, and control everyone. Everyone lives in fear.
7. He believes in human nature, and that there is something that they will not be able to over come. He believes in the spirit of man and they will over come them.
8. He felt pity for himself and his rotting body, he was sad and started crying.
9. One good thing he could say is that he did not betray Julia.
10. He is mad at him because he blames him for looking the way he does, He thinks he is smart because when he said that he had not betrayed Julia O’Brien agreed with him, and anyone else would have said he did betray her because Winston had told them everything about her.
11. He asked when they were going to shoot him.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Book 3 chapter 1

1. He is in the place where there is no darkness, and he this he is in the ministry of love. He is being starved, forced to stay awake, and every time he does something the telescreen tells him to stop. He is treated this way because he is taken in for thought crime, and having a connection with Julia.

2. Parsons, because he was turned in by his daughter for saying "down with big brother" in his sleep.

3. The starving man tries to give him a piece of bread, and the chinless man gets it and the telescreen tells him to drop it.

4. The skull-faced man is terrified. He will do anything to not go into the room, he said he would rat out anyone, he would let them cut his wife and children's throat in front of him, but they take him to the room anyway.

5.He is the head of the thought police, him and Charrington are thought Police and they both rat out Winston.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Book two symbols

Clock- Winston and Julia always think they have more time than they do. The clock is on it’s own time, and isn’t following the rest of the clocks in society. Winston and Julia are like the clock because they are on their own time and they are following the clock that isn’t the same as the rest of the clocks in the society.

Paperweight- Symbolizes Winston’s and Julia’s relationship. It’s a symbol of their own little world and place. The coral was Julia’s life. When they get caught, the paper weight gets smashed just like their relationship did at that same moment.

The singing Prole woman- The song is a sad song, but when she sings it, she makes it sound pretty. It represents that Julia’s and Winston’s relationship was always hopeless, as well as the idea of a new beginning.

Nursery Rhyme about the bells- it represents churches which represents the lower class, and Winston thinks that the lower class are going to be the ones to rebel against the government and overthrow it. The rhyme is Big Brother saying that the rebel and overthrow of the government is never going to happen.

Laws protect Freedom: We think that the Law protects either yourself and your safety, or other people from what you are going to do, and not necessarily your freedom, because to be free is to do whatever you wish without a penalty. For example you could drive around without wearing a seatbelt if you chose, and not get a fine for it.

Greatest Fear

Being buried alive!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Chapters 8-9

1. The Inner Party lives a much better life then the outter party. The outter party is stuck drinking victory gin while the inner party drinks wine and fine liquors. The Inner party also gets real food, like sugar, coffee, and chocolate. While the outer parties get rationed foods. The inner party also has servants to do things for them while the outer parties don't. One of the most important differences is that the inner parties have to option of turning off their telescreens, while the outer parties have no choice.

2. He asks them a what they are willing to do, like betray their country, kill anyone or throw acid in children's faces. He does this to make sure they are serious about joining them.

3. He tells them he doesn't know much and no one does to avoid the brotherhood from collapsing if someone was captured. There is no way of knowing how many members there actually are.

4. He is having winston go to work without a brief case and someone will come up to him in the street saying he dropped his brief case, while giving him a brief case that looks like his and has the book.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

chapter 9

1. To show how different the principals are in the brother hood and the party. It also shows all the lies they had to tell and still do.

2. Upper, middle, and low class.

3. Only their names have changed, the classes and what they do are still the same.

4. To keep everyone one in control, its easier to control all the people. The government staying in war time by two minutes of hate every day, rationing, nationalistic tendencies, fanaticism, and dropping bombs on their own people, all to make it easier to control everyone.

5. To finally have independent thought, and to conquer all the land on earth.

6. Taking over the few bits of land that aren't owned by one of the three superstates, and trying to and completely control its people.

7. They would realize that their enemy is just like them, and that they aren't better off then them and they would refuse to fight them.

8. Because of their resources the superstates can be self-controlled. All the governments operate the same way, to control their people by being in a constant war and remove Independence. All similarities are the basically the same because if they weren't one of the superstates would be at a disadvantage or an advantage and it would mess up the constant war.

9. The government are the same and equally matched so one would not over take the other. The war is keeping the society working and running smoothly. The real war is keeping an entire people enslaved to a false ideology. The goal of the war is to keep people from having independence and intelligence and ideas, and force people to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear.

10. High- To remain how they are. Middle- to aim high. Low-to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

11. The middle class now claims that the government is cruel. Before they looked for equality, but now they only look for inequality.

12. They weren’t looking to establish liberty and equality anymore, but instead to have the government be in absolute control.

13. They would brain wash people to love big brother and not rebel, so it was easy for them to stay in power.

14. Allowing a strong and disconnected Middle Group to come into being,being conquered, governing so inefficiently that the people are stirred to revolt, or losing its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

15. They ration food, have a vast majority of people working for the government in one way or another, and take away their privacy. They also brain wash people into supporting big brother. By making everyone totally dependent on the Party, it is impossible that they would fall from power because, if they did, society would fall apart.

16. It is determined by what class they are born into and ability defined by the party.

17. Double think is the ability to have two different opinions about something. It is used to alter the past, and reject rationality to protect the infallibility of the ruling party, whether or not they are actually correct.

18. To have complete control over everybody and to gain trust. It's easier to trust someone who is always right.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Chapter 3-5

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
-The church, in the streets. They made secret meetings like in the market, talking under their breath and plan where to meet later.
What is Julia’s job?
- She works in the fiction department on the novel-writing machines
What is her background?
- She is 26, lives in a hostel with 30 other girls, she doesn’t rememeber revolution and the only one she ever talked to about those days with her was her grandfather who disappeared, captain of the hockey, wone the gymnastics trophy twice, troop leader in the spies, branch seceratary in the youth league, and now has joined the Junior anti-sex League. Had a love affair when she was 16 with a 60 year old.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
- She hates the party
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
-Her sexuality is all that is important to her. It gives her freedom and a way to rebel against big brother.
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
- It connects people, it creates an instinct and a world the party can’t control
Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
- He thinks it’s and she is beautiful. He listens to her singing and he decides that only when people are down and out will they sing about anything (The Blues)
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
- Smelling the delicious coffee and perfume, looking pretty while the room is nasty, tasting the real sugar in coffee, Hearing the beautiful singing. They don’t really get to experience all these senses unless they are hidden away. Only in Winston and Julia’s paridise do they get to experience them.
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
- Winston is scared of rats, t reminds Winston of the nightmare that has occurred through out his life. while Julia isn’t bothered by them. She sees them everyday.
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
It is a connection to the time before the revolution when they rang.
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
It’s a symbol of their relationship and that they are in their own little bubble

Chapter 5

Who has vanished? How does Winston confirm this?
- Syme has and he knows this because his name is no longer on the list of the chess committee.
Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
- Everyone works over time, there are processions, meetings, military paraes, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs are organized, stands erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, and photographs faked. They hang up a lot of posters of Eurasian army men.
Julia and Winston have some differences. Explain them.
- Julia just doesn’t care about the past, every time Winston tries to talk her about past events she falls asleep on him. They have a huge age difference. Their ideas about rebelling are different, Julia only lives in the moment.
Connect chapters 3-5 to two different themes and explain them
- Meaning of freedom: Them still meeting, stealing and eating good food, Julia wearing make up, the prole singing, the idea of the glass paper weight
- The responsibility of the individual in Society: Preparing for hate week and working over time. Winstons job of destroying files and altering the past. What Syme first disappeared someone questioned about it but than the next day never spoke of him again because he is supposed to have never existed. Just to blend in.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

1984 AND Today

1. No one has no privacy, in 1894 they have telescreens that watch everyone, and in the world now there is the Internet where people display their personal information, like twitter, facebook, and videos on YouTube.

2. We all have a common enemy. In 1984 they all have 2 minuets of hate and hate week, a picture od Goldstien and the eurasian army show up and images of people they are suppose to hate and they all get together and go crazy. The news today does about the same thing. The government today has control to create a war with anyone they want making them the common enemy.

3. Way of Life. In 1984 and today the country changes their opinion and expects everyone to change theirs as well. In 1984 they can go back and change the past to refine the future even though people remember what they terminated they aren't suppose to remember.

4. Newspeak: In 1984 they use newspeak to dumb down everyone and make them equal. In today's society definition are becoming more general. keeping every thing dumb down or general makes everyone more equal and not as smart as the government.

5. Entertainment: in 1984 and today we are distracted by entertainment. Sports, games,lottery, tv, and other activities distract us from the problems in the world and the government.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
He had no physical sensation except of mere contact, all he felt was incredulity and pride, he had no physical desire he thought it was too soon and he was frightened by her youth and prettiness.


What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
Chocolate

What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
She hates the party and the inner party, she used curse words whenever she talked about the party.

What familiar sign does Winston find?
The trail and the hill looked familiar to him and and reminded him that there was a stream there.

What is the significance of the thrush music?
It symbolizes Winstons rebellion because one day he wants to be like the bird and be able to do what he wants.

What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?
The more people she has had sexual encounters with the more its betraying the party. Its a rebellion against them.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Hamlet 4.5-4.7

1.) She is upset and mad that the man she once loved killed her father. She sings about those things because she is now free from Polonius, Laertes, and Hamlet and feels she can say whatever she wants.

2.) Laertes runs the rebellion against his government planning to throw out tradition.

3.)Everything he owns, his crown, and his life.

act 4.6

1.) He was captured by pirates, they are pirates working for Norway or they work for themselves.

act 4.7

1.) That Hamlet was trying to kill him instead and killed Polonius by mistake.

2.) The public loves Hamlet and over look everything that he has done bad so what people would say would hurt Cladius more then Hamlet, and his mother its to attacked to him and loves him to much and Cladius loves her to much to do that to her.

3.) Yes.

4.) He thinks that people will be placing bets on the match and Hamlet will be so distracted by the bets that Laertes can grab the sharper sword.

5.) His plan is to dip the end of the sword with poison that way when he stabs Hamlet the poison will kill him.

6.) That Ophelia was making a wreath of weeds and killed the willow tree to hang it and then she fell out of the tree into the river with the wreath and she drowned.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hamlet words #2

Billy’s statement seemed paradox, but in time it was true.

The Sovereign King made the peasants shine his shoes.

The commission told her class to clean the gym

The Resolution was to go to the park at noon just before it was suppose to rain.

Putting the frog in is sisters chair was malefaction.

Nothing was as beautiful as the firmament at night.

The science teacher gave a tedious speech about the earth and everyone fell asleep.

Kim drank the pestilent juice and died instantly.

The Pious boy read the bible every night.

The rocks created a huge promontory for the waves as the crashed into them.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hamlet 2.2

1.) Claudius sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
2.) He has sent on them to spy on Hamlet
3.) Voltimand and Cornelius bring back news that the king of Norway found out what Fortinbras was doing and told him not to attack Denmark
4.) Norway asks for permission to pass through Denmark on their march to Poland
5.) He’s telling them to listen to him though he rarely listens to himself
6.) Polonius’s plan is for him and Claudius to hid behind an arras when Hamlet is with Ophelia and see if he is really in love with Ophelia
7.) Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger or a pimp because Polonius uses his daughter to get further in life
8.) Polonius says that madness gets the point across while sanity would not as well
9.) To Hamlet Denmark is corrupt
10.) He tells them that he has now realized people are nothing more than dust
11.) The players are traveling now because a younger crew has become more popular in the cities so they are traveling to find work
12.) He lets them know that he knows what’s going on and knows the purpose that the king and queen have sent from them
13.) It is an allusion to Jephthah in the bible who sacrifies his daughter out of selfishness, trying to get a higher ranking
14.) Like Pyrrhus we wants to avenge his fathers death. Hamlet is unlike Pyrrhus because of the way they are going about getting their revenge is different. And Pyrrhus is actually in a war while Hamlet is not yet.
15.) Hamlet asks the players if they can perform the Murder of Gonzago and if he can write a couple lines that could be added to the play
16.) He exclaims this because the actor can cry and feel sorry for a made up character when Hamlet just feels empty inside
17.) His plan is that by adding in these lines to the play it with break his uncle down causing him to confess about old king hamlet
18.) One, Hamlet wants to know whether or not the ghost is the devil and two he needs this evidence so people will believe him
19.) Polonius spies on Ophelia and Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern spy on Hamlet
20.) Hamlet is rude and sad but gets excited for plays. He is clever and some how seems to know everything that is going on.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Notes for 2.2

Lines 1-26, the King and Queen ask Rosencrantz and Guildentstern to talk to Hamlet and figure out why Hamlet is sad. Represents the Motif of spying.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-childhood friends

Lines 27-30, Motif of Prostitution

Either the Queen and King really care about Hamlet or they are selling his childhood memories to better themselves.Motif-prostitution

Polack- Poland king

Lines 60-77, Norway didn't know what fortinbras was doing so they stopped him and forbid him from attacking, and if he doesn't attack they will pay him 3,00 crowns in annual fee.

line 92 "i will be brief" Polonius is trying to act intelligent. line 94 "What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"- Ophelia is upset with him

Lines 97-104, Polonius thinks Hamlet is upset because he is in love with Ophelia and she is rejecting him and is driving him mad.

Hamlet's letter- His maddness could be love, maybe he wrote the letter knowing Polonius would read it.

line 127- "all Given" probably took the letter from Ophelia

line 127- "all given to mine ear" motif-ear

Polonius has the idea to have Hamlet and Ophelia meet and hide behind a curtain and see how they really feel.-Motif of spying

Polonius says he will go talk to Hamlet and ask him Questions to try to get out of him what is really wrong. Motif-Spying

Fishmonger- slang for pimp also represents the motif of prostitution.

Hamlet is the sun, and the sun brings out good and bad things.

Ophelia is the dead dog, line 181

"yet he knew me not at first, a said i was a fishmonger. Ais far gone. And truly in my youth i siffered much extermity for love, very near this. I'll speak to him again."- Hamlet is crazy.

lines 192-193 Polonius is trying to be sneeky and try to get out of Hamlet what is wrong with him.

"except my life, expect my life, except my life." Hamlet wants polonius to leave

Strumpet-Prostitute

lines 245-247 Its the way you want to see it, Hamlet sees Denmark as bad and his friends don't.

Bad dreams- Hamlet has been dreaming about his dad's ghost

Shadow of a common man makes heroes, they are kings and Queens.

Hamlet knows his friends are there to spy on him so he confronts them.

There are so many good things about man kind and humans, but to hamlet they are just dust.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Hamlet 2.1

1) He is sending him to Paris to spy on Laertes.

2) He wants him to spy on Laertes in Paris and find out what he is doing there, and doesn't want him to embarres the family name.

3) He is suppose to go around asking about Laertes and once he finds someone who knows him he is going to make up lies about what he has been doing and see if they are true.

4) Polonius is selfish and only cares about himself and his name then he does other people, he also doesn't trust Laertes.

5) Polonius's rambling is making Reynaldo not really want to go around saying lies about Laertes because it would be dishonouring him, but he will listen to Polonius and do what he asks.

6) She says that he looks old and warn out, his clothes are dirty, his skin is very pale,and she says he looks like he has if he has been loosed out of hell.

7) He thinks that Hamlet has gone mad because Ophelia rejected him and he is in love with her.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Hamlet 1.3-1.4

1) Laertes was warning Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet because he is royal and can't really choose who he loves, but if he ever not royal and stills loves you then it is true love. He doesn't want Ophelia to get hurt by Hamlet so his advice is to stay away from him.

2)They are comparing Ophelia to a flower, and the canker galls as worms. Worms can destroy flowers before they even bloom relating to the decay of garden.

3) she says she will protect her heart and will take his advice, but tells him not to be a hypocrite because she knows what he does when he goes to France.

4) Do not speak your thoughts and don't be quick to act on them, don't be vulgar, don't dress to fancy, be nice to people but not to nice, once you find friends that you trust hold on to them, don't pick fights, listen to people but don't talk a lot.

5) That Ophelia is a foolish little baby for believing Hamlets offers are something real. He also says to give her self more respect and that if she is with Hamlet he will be a laughing-stock, he is thinking more about himself then her.

6) "when the blood burns, how prodigal the should lends the tongue vows. These blazes daughter giving more light then heat, extinct in both even in their promise as it is a making." He is saying that when he is on fire he will keep saying things he doesn't really mean and that when his heart is on fire it gives out more light then heat and the fire will be out before he is done with his promises. A heart can't be on fire and him living and making all these promises.

7) He commands her to not be with Hamlet or even see him.

8) He is saying that it's his heritage to drink and he should be drinking but doesn't want to because that's all people know them for. They are known for drinking and being drunks and that hides all the great achievements they have made, and that one little thing you do wrong can destroy everything good you have done.

9) He is worried that the ghost isn't actually King Hamlet and that it's the devil and he will drive Hamlet into madness.

10) He tells them to let go of him and if holds him back he will kill them.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Hamlet Words

An apparition appeared while the man was sleeping.

Jim was sent to the principal’s office for the calumnious comments he made about the school.

The basketball canon stats you cannot run with the basketball.

The girl’s caluntenance brought tears to everyone’s eyes.

The discourse between the girls was mean.

The fire alarm is imminent.

The boy took a perilous jump off the rock into the ocean.

The portentous drummer made three hundred dollars on the street.

The prodigal girl got her credit cards taken away.

The grape juice spilled all over er white shirt and it was sullied.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hamlet act 1 scene 1

1) It's created by the ghost appearing and reappearing, and them trying to figure out why they ghost is there and what he is trying to tell them, and that the ghost wont talk and is dressed in armour, the reader wants to keep reading because they also want to know why they ghost is there.

2) We find out the ghost is the dead king and get the story about him and his battle with Fortinbras, and that the ghost is dressed in armour which makes them think they will go to battle, and the ghost will also not talk to them.

3) The scene leaves off with them going to tell Hamlet about the ghost making the reader want to meet Hamlet. They also discover that the ghost will not talk to them no matter what they do, and they try to figure out why the ghost is there.

4) The mood is confusion or uncertainty, they guard don't know if the ghost is actually real or if they saw it, then they see the ghost is dressed in armour and try to figure out what that means, they are unsure through out the scene.

5) The ghost is their king and he is dressed in armour so the assume it means they will have to go to war. They are also confused because the ghost keeps appearing and disappearing.

6)He thinks the king comes back to warn them, young Fotinbras wants revenge on the land they lost.

7) Barnado, Francisco, Horatio, Hamlet's ghost, and Marcellus.

8) He says that there is a battle between King Hamlet and King Fortinbras and they are enemies.

9) He is the son of old Fortinbras and is in the same situation as Hamlet.

10) He says that the ghost is something to worry about because before Julius Cesar died ghost started flying around talking gibberish, and there were threatening sign from the sun and the moon's eclipse, they are also seeing signs like that so the should be worried.

11) Horatio is a scholar and he also believes the ghost is not real, but Marcellus and Barnardo believes the ghost is real.

12) He is present because he is a scholar and they think only someone smart can talk to a ghost.

13) We fin out that the feud between old King Hamlet and Fortinbras represents a feud between Denmark and Norway.