1984 By george Orwell Annotations

Notes

- Vocabulary

- Characters: who are they? What do they want? What are their values? Do they have

Principles?

- Symbols: Objects in the book that are described frequently and analyze what they

symbolize

- BigIdeas: politics, governments, society: what is implied about them?

- Due date Jan 5

1984, George Orwell Annotations

Part 1/ Chapters 1-8

Ch. 1

-Vocab:

● seldom(not often, rarely)

● varicose ulcer (A wound on the leg or ankle caused by abnormal or damaged veins)

● oblong (an object or flat figure in an elongated rectangle or oval shape)

-Characters:

● Winston Smith, 39, works at The Ministry of Truth in the Records Department. He builds

hatred for the governmental control of “Big Brother”. Winston also questions the

existence of Goldstein’s secret society’s “The Brotherhood” existence

himself contain a mutual interest due to their eye contact during the Two Minute hate.

● Emmanuel Goldstein is the enemy of the people, The face of the Two minute hate,

former leader, and Commander of “The Brotherhood” society- Quote “ He was abusing

Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the

immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech,

freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying

hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed-” (ch.1,12)

-Big ideas/Governments:

● Thought Police- peacekeepers, police, form of law enforcers

● Big Brother- government- Quote; “They were the homes of the four Ministries between

which the entire apparatus of government was divided: the Ministry of Truth, which

concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts: the Ministry of

Peace, which concerned itself with war: the Ministry of Love, which maintained law and

order: and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their

names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and miniplenty.” (ch.1,4)

-Symbol:

● “Big brother is watching you”- surveillance government

● “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” is the three slogans of the party(

Ministry of truth)

● “Two Minute Hate”: Quote-” The Horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not

that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within

thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and
 vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed

to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one event

against one’s will intoa grimacing, streaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was

an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like

the flame of a blowlamp.” (ch1,14)

-By the Government requiring its citizens to participate in this moment where they are to

only express hatred to a man they don't truly know, but they despise this person willingly

because their government “Big Brother” says that Emmanuel Goldstin is a bad person.

This only reveals how influenceable and easily manipulated the people of Oceania are,

this also reveals how far under control the people of Oceania are to Big Brother

● Thoughtcrime-” Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You

might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound

to get you.” (ch.1,19)

● “Vaporized”(Quote) “ It was always at night- the arrests invariably happened at night…

In the vast majority of the cases there was no trial,no report of the arrest. People simply

disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the register, every

record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was

denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual

word” (ch.1,19)

-This implies that the government willingly erases citizens from existence if they feel that

the particular person is a threat to the organization of Big Brother; By exposing Big

Brother and revealing to the people of Oceania that Big brother is a lie. Overall, this

implies the corruption of the government.

● “The Brotherhood”, ran by Emmanuel Golstein: Quote-” But what was strange was that

although Goldstein was hated and despised by everyone, although every day, a thousand

times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were

refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they

were- in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less. Always there were

fresh dupes waiting to be seduced by him. A day never passed when spies and saboteurs

acting under his directions were not unasked by the Thought Police. He was the

commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated

to the overthrow the State. The Brotherhood, its name was supposed to be (ch.1,13)

-This implies that Big Brother finds Emmanuel Goldstein as a threat. With being a threat

the government encourages all people of citizens to stand against Goldstein by providing

information about the man that may or may not be true. No evidence provided.

Ch. 2

-Vocab:

● Drudges (a person made to do hard menial or dull work)

● Strenuousness ( energetic)

● Zealot (a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious,

political, or other ideals.)

-Characters:

● Mrs. Parsons, the neighbors wife

● Tom Parsons, neighbor at Victory mansions as well as a coworker at the Ministry of Truth
 ● “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of

such organizations as the spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little

savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the

discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected

with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy

rifles, the yelling of slogans, and the worship of Big Brother- it was all a sort of glorious

game to them. (Ch. 2,24)

-Symbol:

● INGSOC- “ The sacred principles of INGSOC. Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of

the past” (ch.2, 26), (Newspeak is the official language), (two different thoughts at once),

(banning the existence of the past)

-Big ideas/ Society:

● Youth league- which allows children to act as spies and report to the Thought police

-This implies that the government invests in manipulation to children at early ages so that

they may have their loyalty throughout their entire lives.

Ch.3

-Vocab:

● Fathoms ( used in reference to the depth of water)

● Disdainfully (unworthy or inferior)

-Characters:

● Winston's family (mother, baby sister) sacrificed their lives to save his, as they sunk in

the ship.
-Big ideas/Governments:

● “In 1984(if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.

In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any

time been grouped along different lines… Winston well knew, it was only four years

since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was

merely a piece of fugitive knowledge which he had happened to possess because his

memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change in partners had never

happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war

with Eurasia… the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could

thrusts its hands into the past and say of this or that event, it never

happened-that,surely,wasmore terrifying than mere torture and death… The Party said

that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that

Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where

did that knowledge exist? (ch3,34)

-This implies that with the government repeatedly altering history changing the facts,

loopholes still stand. For instance, Winston has lived before Big Brother. He remembers

what happened and what didn’t. But he cannot easily prove that he remembers correctly

because there is no evidence. This show how carrot the government is by attempting to

rewrite history.

● “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed- if all records told the same

tale-than the passed into history and became the truth. “Who controls the past” ran the

Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (ch.3,34)
 -This implies that the lies told by the government become the truth because no one is able

to say otherwise with there being no trace of evidence left behind.

-Symbol:

● “Reality control,” they call it; in Newspeak,”doublethink” (ch3,35)

● “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling

carfulling constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,

knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them… Even to understand

the word “Doublethink” involves the use of doublethink.” (ch.3, 35)

● “ The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered it had actually been destroyed. For

how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside

your own memory ? (ch.3,35)

Ch.4

-Vocab:

● Intricate (very complicated or detailed)

● Gesticulating (use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize

one's words)

● Commemorating ( showing respect for someone or something)

-Characters:

● Tillotson

● Ampleforth

● Comrade Ogilvy: an imaginary person made into existence by the government. “It was

true that there was no such person as comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a
 couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence… At the age of three

comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a submachine gun, and a model

helicopter. At six- a year early… he had joined the Spies; at nine he had been a troop

leader. At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought police after overhearing a

conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies…”(ch.4,46-47)

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way

every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have

been correct… All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as

often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done,

to prove that any falsification had taken place” (ch.4,40)

● “... Were other swarms of workers engaged in unimaginable multitude of jobs. There

were the huge printing shops with their sub editors, their typography experts, and their

elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the telegrams

section with its engineers, its producers, and its teams of actors specially chosen for their

skill in imitating voices... There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents

were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed” (ch.4,42)

- These two paragraphs cited from the novel reveal that The government has made

Oceania to where nothing could be proved as the truth or just a lie because there lies no

evidence to tell. So citizens are left to believe only what Big Brother says it is.

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “ Or perhaps- what was likeliest of all- the thing had simply happened because purges

and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. The only real
 clue lay in the words “refs unpersons”, which indicated that … was already dead. You

could not invariably assume this to be the case when people were arrested. Sometimes

they were released and allowed to remain at liberty for as much as a year or two years

before being executed. Very occasionally some persons whom you had believed dead

long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trail where he would

implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time forever.”

(ch.4,45-46)

● Ninth three Year plan- main goal was to correct history

● Junior Anti sex leauge- limit intimacy of sex

Ch.5

-Vocab:

● Disreputability (disgracefulness, dishonorableness)

-Characters:

● Syme- a “friend” of Winstons, who worked in the research Department as a philologist.

He values the principles of Newspeak, the art of destroying all words and applying

limitation on thought; values the principles of INGSOC

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “By 2050- earlier, probably-all real knowledge of oldspeak will have disappeared. The

whole literature of the past will have been destroyed… Even the literature of the Party

will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is

slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought
 will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy

means not thinking…”(ch.5,53)

- This explains how the government intends to limit citizens ability to think for

themselves.

● “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place

or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an

unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself- anything that carried with it

the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an

improper expression on your face was itself a punishable offense.There was even a word

for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called ” (ch.5,62)

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the

end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in

which to express it.” (ch.5,52)

Ch.6

-Vocab:

● Debauchery (excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures)

● Promiscuity ( having many sexual partners)

-Characters:

● Katherine, Winston’s wife. She valued a purely nonsexual relationship with Winston.

-Big ideas/Governments:
 ● “...The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or,if, it could not be killed, than to distort

it and dirty it… So far as the women were concerned, the Part’s efforts were largely

successful.” (ch.5,66)

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties

which it might not be able to control. Its real, declared purpose was to remove all

pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside

marriage as well as outside it. All marriages between Party members had to be approved

by a committee… and though the principle was never clearly states- permission was

always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted

to one another.” (ch.5,65)

● “ The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the

Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as slightly disgusting minor operation…”

(ch.5,65)

-These two quotes cited from the novel imply that the government intends to destroy the

power of obtaining relationships. This also prevent people from having loyalty to anyone

else besides the government.

-Symbol:

● Junior Anti-Sex Leauge-” There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex

Leauge which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes.” (ch.5,65)

Ch.7

-Vocab:
 ● Indoctrinate ( teach a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically )

● Counterrevolutionaries ( a person who advocates or engages in a revolution that opposes

a previous one or reverses its results )

-Characters:

● Rutherford, Aaronson, Jones were purgers apart of the Revolution in the 60’s; associated

with Goldstein. They were accused to be traitors of Oceania by associating themselves

with the enemy in war Eurasia.

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to

believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of

their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence

of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy… And what was terrifying was

not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after

all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or

that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and external world exits only in my mind,

and if the mind itself is controllable- what then?” (ch.7,80)

-This comes to show that with all the government's manipulation it puts its citizens

through. People such as Winston find it hard to believe in what is true, what is a lie made

to be true, or if everything is a lie itself.

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. The sexual

puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity went unpunished;

divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious worship would have been
 permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it. They were beneath

suspicion. As the Party slogan put it: “Proles and animals are free.” (ch.7,72)

Ch.8

-Vocab:

● Pugnacious ( eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight )

-Characters:

● Mr. Charrington, prole, shop owner that Winston brought the coral and diary from.

Winston is unsure that Mr. Charrington nor his shop is trustworthy. Winstop has the area

of renting out the upstairs room of Charrington’s shop.

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “The older generations had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the Fifties and

Sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual

surrender. If there was anyone alive who could give you a truthful account of conditions

in the early party of the century, it could only be a prole.” ch.8,86-87)

● “And when memory failed and written records were falsified-when that happened, the

claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life have got to be accepted,

because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it

could be tested.” (ch.8,93)

-Symbol:

● WAR IS PEACE,FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Ch.1

-Vocab:

● Kaleidoscopes ( a constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements )

-Characters:

● Wilsher: briefly mentioned character who interrupts Winstons attempt to sit at the table

with the girl

-Symbol:

● Paddington station: is where the dark hair girl tells Winston to take as a route to get to

her.

● St. Martin’s Church: is the Church Mr. Warrington sings a song about, for Winston.

Winston takes an interest in this church because it represents a age before the Revolution

● Victory Square: is where Winston and the dark haired girl have their first meet up. She

gives Winston directions to another meet up spot, and she holds his hand for a moment

Ch.2

-Vocab:

● Obeisance ( respect )

-Characters:

● Julia: she values having intimate relationships with many members of the Party. Winston

adores how unholy/pure she is.

-Big ideas/ Society:

and that was the end of the story. But you could not have pure love or pure lust

nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the

Party. It was a political act.” (ch.2,129)

Ch.3

-Vocab:

● Rendezvous ( a meeting at an agreed time and place )

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “...The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be

fond of their children in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand,

were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report

their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It

was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by

informers who knew him intimately.” (ch.3,133)

-Symbol:

● The brotherhood

ch.4

-Vocab:

● Inquisitive ( curious or inquiring )

-Characters:

● Mr. Charrington reveals that he values privacy most. Which is ironic because the

government watches everything so privacy is rare. Meaning privacy is precious, valuable.

-Symbol:

● Hate week

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “ He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to

lie in bed like this, in the cool of the summer evening, a man and a woman with no

clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, no feeling any

compilation to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely

there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary.” (ch.4,143)

Ch.5

-Vocab:

● Apathetic ( showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern )

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she

startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket

bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania

itself, “just to keep people frightened.” (ch.5,153)

Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the

Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten,

every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and buildings has been renamed,

every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by

minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party

is always right.” (ch.5,155)

-Symbol:

● Rocket bombs

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people

incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations

of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,

and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By

lack of understanding they remained sane.” (ch.5,156)

Ch.6

-Vocab:

● Halted (immediate stop )

-Characters:
 ● O'Brien: valued the destruction of words (Newspeak). Became vaporized due to being an

intelligent civilian.

-Symbol:

● Memory hole

Ch.7

-Vocab:

● Beseech ( ask someone urgently and fervently to do something )

● Remonstrances ( a forcefully reproachful protest )

-Characters:

● Winston's father; abandoned Winston and his mother

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere

feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the

material world… Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions

were ever heard of again.” (ch.7,164-165)

-Symbol:

● Proles: they valued loyalty to one another and not the Party

Ch.8

-Vocab:
 ● Indecipherable ( Indecipherable )

-Characters:

● Martin: Servant of O'Brien, member of the brotherhood. Valued the destruction of Big

Brother

-Symbol:

● “ In the place where there is no darkness”

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “ The members of the Brotherhood have no way of recognizing one another, and it is

impossible for any one member to be aware of the identity of more than a very few

others… The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the

ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.”

(ch.8,175-176)

● “ You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die.

Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any

perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true

life is in the future.” (ch.8,176)

Ch.9

-Vocab:

● Gelatinous ( having the consistency of jelly )

-Symbol:

● The book ( The brotherhood book/Goldstein )

● The theory and practice of oligarchical collectivism

● Middle: goal is to change places with the high

● Low: create equality

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and

disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for

any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process- ny producing wealth which it was

sometimes impossible not to distribute- the machine did raise the living standards of the

average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the

nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.” 9ch.9,189)

● “But it was also clear that an all round increase in wealth threatened the destruction… of

hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat,

lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motorcar or even an

airplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would

already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal

possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the

hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain

stable.” (ch.9, 189-190)

Ch.10

-Vocab:

● Indefatigable ( tirelessly )
-Characters:

● Mr. Charrington: true identity of a member of the Thought police. Principles of reporting

unorthodox behavior

-Symbol:

● The future belonged to the proles: Winston believed the proles were the key to they future

because they were the only ones who remained sane, kept their humanity.

● Where there is equality there can be sanity: Message from “The Book” of Goldstein

● We are the dead: The Party members, the members of The Brotherhood are considered

the dead, while the proles are the future

Part 3/ Chapters 1-6

Ch.1

-Vocab:

● Sanctimonious (superior to other people )

● Unreproved (rebuked )

-Characters:
 ● “To a surprisingly extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners. “The polits”

thy called them, with a sort of uninterested contempt. The Party prisoners seemed

terrified of speaking to anybody, and above all of speaking to one another.” (ch.1,228)

-Symbol:

● Down with big brother

● Room 101

ch.2

-Vocab:

● Luminous (full of or shedding light; bright or shining, especially in the dark )

-Characters:

● O'Brien-” It was O’Brien who was directing everything. It was he who set the guards

onto Winston and who prevented them from killing him. It was he who decided when

Winston should scream with pain, when he should have respite, when he should be fed,

when he should sleep, when the drugs should be pumped into his arm. It was he who

asked the questions and suggested the answers. He was the tormentor, he was the

protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend.” (ch.2,243-244)

-Big ideas/Governments:

● “It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody. Besides, in a sense it was

all true. It was true that he had been the enemy of the Party, and in the eyes of the Party

there was no distinction between the thought and the deed.” (ch.2,242)
 ● “ Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will

you understand… that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands

uncured?... The Party is not interested in the overact: the thought is all we care about. We

do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them…” (ch.2.253)

Ch.3

-Characters:

● “The terrible thing, thought Winston, the terrible thing was that when O’Brien said this

he would believe it… he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the

mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there.

He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the

ultimate purpose. What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more

intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply

persists in his lunacy?” (ch.3,262)

● Winston: values his loyalty towards julia through his torture sessions

-Symbol:

● The Party/ big Brother: values the principles of obtaining power

Ch.4

-Vocab:

● Capitulate ( surrender )

-Characters:
 ● Winstin; acceptd the principles of the Party- “he obeyed the Party, but he still hated the

Party.” (ch.4,280)

-Symbol:

● God is Power

● Golden Country

Ch.5

-Vocab:

● Interpose (place or insert between one thing and another )

● Didactically ( making moral observations )

-Characters:

● Winston: offers ignores his loyalty to Julia: instead he offers her up as a replacement to

remove him from the rat cage.

-Big ideas/ Society:

● “There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point

of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable-something that cannot be

contemplated.” (ch.5,284)

Ch.6

-Vocab:

● Demoralization ( to deprive of something)

-Characters:
 ● Julia and Winston admit their betrayal towards one another.

● Winston- “But it was all right, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had

won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” (ch.6,298)

-Symbol:

● Big brother is watching you

● 2+2=5