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Make sure you are receiving the most out of 1984 using these chapter-by-chapter reviews for books 1, 2, and 3.
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Chapter One: The novel's first chapter introduces your reader to the novel's protagonist, Winston Smith of Airstrip One, Oceania. Winston is definitely an unimportant person in Ingsoc, the controlling party of Oceania. As he labors in the stairs to his apartment, he passes several posters of Big Brother, the embodiment of party leadership, who actually represents oppression, but to citizens represents all of that is good. Winston commits



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thoughtcrime by writing DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER in their diary, the having which constitutes thoughtcrime.
Chapter Two: Winston hears a knock on the door and fears it is the thought police. It's actually his neighbor whose sink he unplugs and whose kids are junior spies for your party.




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Chapter Three: Winston hopes for his mother, of an naked girl running toward him, and of Shakespeare, the three of which represent thoughtcrime. He awakens towards the telescreen's shrill cry of exercise time.
Chapter Four: Winston visits work at The Ministry of Truth. His job is usually to falsify past records include them as conform to current reality.
Chapter Five: Winston eats lunch with Syme, a professional on Newspeak, the state run language from the party, whose purpose would be to reduce the number of words and to render thoughtcrime impossible.
Chapter Six: Winston records his latest sex act as part of his diary, a disgusting affair with a Prole prostitute without having teeth. He longs for a meaningful love affair, what he considers the best rebellion contrary to the party.




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Chapter Seven: Winston writes as part of his diary that the only hope is within the Proles, the running class. He longs for any sense in the past, covers a children's history book, and realizes any record in the past is controlled with the party and it has been falsified.
Chapter Numbers Girls Eight: Winston wanders in to the Prole district and buys a paperweight at the same store he bought the diary. He notices women from the Ministry of Truth and fears he or she is being followed. He contemplates smashing her face in with a cobblestone.
Analysis: The party controls its citizens through media manipulation, language manipulation, psychological trickery, the dissolving of family ties, and torture. The party has produced illegal as much as possible that make life enjoyable: family ties, sex, romantic love, the freedom to consider, great literature, and anything involving introspection. Although Oceania does not have any specific laws prohibiting any of Winston's actions, his actions are outward signs that they has committed the greatest crime, thoughtcrime.
Book One introduces people to the novel's other two significant characters, Julia, the girl in the blue overalls, and O'Brien, the inner party member who Winston believes may be a fellow conspirator.
Chapter One: The girl who earlier Winston wished to strike in the face using a cobblestone passes him a communication that says "I love you." It takes several attempts, nevertheless the two can converse and schedule a meeting at Victory Square. Winston feels he's got a reason to reside in.
Chapter Two: The two meet in the country and participate in romantic love acts.
Chapter Three: The two resume normal party lives and manage to meet simply for short amounts of time. They rendezvous at an abandoned church. Winston realizes that Julia is just not interested in an extensive rebellion. She is only enthusiastic about outsmarting the party and achieving intercourse.
Chapter Four: Winston rents a place above Mr Charrington's shop, where he purchased the diary along with the paper weight. He realizes it's really a huge risk but he feels it's worth the cost.
Chapter Five: Syme disappears (as WInston predicted earlier). Winston constantly acknowledges the room above Charrington's shop, considering what continues there, I think we understand.
Chapter Six: O'Brien stops Winston inside hall and gives him his address. Winston is not sure if this is the sign in the underground or if he's a measure closer to his doom.
Chapter Seven: Winston and Julia visit their rented room frequently. They know they will eventually be captured and tortured understanding that renting the space is stupid. They continue to rent it anyhow and promise each other they will remain loyal.
Chapter Eight: Winston and Julia visit O'Brien and discuss the underground with him. He promises Winston he will deliver the sunday paper containing the secrets in the underground.
Chapter Nine: Oceania has stopped being at war with East Asia. It's at war with Eurasia. This forces Winston with his fantastic Ministry of Truth coworkers to log 96 hours throughout the next few weeks. Finally, Winston has the capacity to escape to his rented room where he reads the novel given him by O'Brien. The book explains the worthiness and concise explaination War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Freedom is Slavery.
Chapter 10: As it turns out, Mr. Charrington is a part of the Thought Police as there are a telescreen behind the picture inside the room above his shop. Winston and Julia are arrested.
Analysis: The moment WInston, Julia, and the reader have all been looking forward to finally occurs at the end of chapter 10. The only question remaining is actually Winston and Julia betray the other. Don't you hate it once you buy illegal items from an undercover thought policeman? I imagine Winston feels pretty stupid. That whole "Here comes a chopper to slice off your mind poem" has haunted me since part one and may have been a clue to Winston that both Charrington and O'Brien were not to be trusted.
Chapter One: Winston awaits his punishment inside a cell along with other prisoners, victims of starvation and beatings. His coworker Ampleforth may be arrested, as has his neighbor Parsons. O'Brien enters and reveals himself as a possible agent with the Ministry of Truth. A security guard smashes Winston's elbow using a club. It hurts. Bad.
Chapter Two: O'Brien efforts to "cure" Winston's "insanity" with torture. Winston agrees to anything O'Brien tells him and actually starts to love O'Brien because he can stop the pain. O'Brien explains that this party has perfected a process that will keep them in power forever. They do not kill any prisoners until they are "cured."
Chapter Three: O'Brien tortures Winston more. He tells Winston that this party's true aim is to remain in power forever by controlling things. Winston argues that the party cannot control external events. O'Brien thinks otherwise, explaining that so long as the party controls the mind, anything can be done. O'Brien admits that Winston has yet to betray Julia, but doesn't come off as too upset by it, if you know eventually everyone is cured.
Chapter Four: Winston is taken up a more comfortable room, is fed regularly, and is no longer tortured. He still hates Big Brother and wants to die hating Big Brother like a last act of rebellion. He wakes up from a dream and shouts Julia's name repeatedly. O'Brien arrives and orders Winston to room 101.
Chapter Five: Winston's face is strapped to a cage made up of starving rats. Just before O'Brien pulls the lever release a them, Winston asks that Julia take his place. With the final betrayal complete, the torture stops.
Chapter Six: Winston sits in the Chestnut Tree Cafe drinking Victory Gin and accepting everything Big Brother says. He has met with Julia once since developing but neither had any curiosity about continuing their relationship. After news of the great war victory, Winston acknowledges he loves Big Brother.
Analysis: Evil wins. All it took was weeks of torture, a cage packed with rats, and enough gin to paralyze a rhinoceros. I love Big Brother.