1984 Ampleforth

Question: who is Winston smith?

Answer: A minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London, Winston Smith is a thin, frail, contemplative, intellectual, and fatalistic thirty-nine-year-old. Winston hates the totalitarian control and enforced repression that are characteristic of his government. He harbors revolutionary dreams.

==================================================

Question: who is Big Brother?

Answer: Though he never appears in the novel, and though he may not actually exist, Big Brother, the perceived ruler of Oceania, is an extremely important figure. Everywhere Winston looks he sees posters of Big Brother’s face bearing the message “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” Big Brother’s image is stamped on coins and broadcast on the unavoidable telescreens; it haunts Winston’s life and fills him with hatred and fascination.

==================================================

Question: who is Aaronson?

Answer: ….

==================================================

Question: who is mrs parsons?

Answer: The wife of Tom Parsons and neighbor of Winston’s. A tired, aged woman with “dust in the creases of her face,” Mrs. Parsons is the mother of two horrific children belonging to the Spies and Youth League and who are bound to eventually denounce her and her husband to the Thought Police. At the beginning of the novel, Mrs. Parsons knocks on Winston’s door when he is writing in his diary to ask for his help unclogging the kitchen sink. Winston obliges.

==================================================

Question: who is Ampleforth?

Answer: A coworker of Winston’s, and a poet who works in the Records Department rewriting politically or ideologically objectionable Oldspeak poems. By the end of the novel, Ampleforth is in prison along with Winston, for, he believes having left the word “God” in one of his poems.

==================================================

Question: who is Mr. charignton?

Answer: The owner of the antique shop where Winston first buys his diary, pen, and later on a glass paperweight. Winston rents the room above the shop from Mr. Charrington for his love affair with Julia. Mr. Charrington appears to be a kind old man interested in history and the past, but later reveals himself to be a member of the Thought Police. Mr. Charrington leads Winston and Julia into his trap, and observes their action from the hidden telescreen in the room above the shop. As he is being arrested, Winston notices that Mr. Charrington looks entirely different, and has clearly been working under disguise for quite some time.

==================================================

Question: who is syme?

Answer: A “friend” of Winston’s and a philologist working on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Although Winston dislikes Syme, he enjoys having somewhat interesting conversations with him. Winston notices that Syme, although a devoted Party member, is too smart and too vocal for his own good. He predicts Syme will be vaporized, and is proven correct when he suddenly disappears.

==================================================

Question: who is O’Brien?

Answer: A prominent Inner Party member with whom Winston feels a strange bond. Winston feels that even if O’Brien is an enemy, it wouldn’t matter because he knows O’Brien will understand him without explanation. O’Brien is a large, graceful, and clearly intelligent man who leads Winston to believe he is part of an underground movement against the Party, but in fact helps turn Winston in for thoughtcrime and tortures him in the Ministry of Love. O’Brien is full of strange contradictions. He can be fatherly - and even tender - even while fanatically expressing his devotion to the Party by torturing Winston

==================================================

Question: who is Goldstein?

Answer: Another figure who exerts an influence on the novel without ever appearing in it. According to the Party, Goldstein is the legendary leader of the Brotherhood. He seems to have been a Party leader who fell out of favor with the regime. In any case, the Party describes him as the most dangerous and treacherous man in Oceania.

==================================================

Question: who is Tom Parsons?

Answer: A fat, obnoxious, and dull Party member who lives near Winston and works at the Ministry of Truth. He has a dull wife and a group of suspicious, ill-mannered children who are members of the Junior Spies.

==================================================

Question: Who is the dark-haired girl?

Answer: Julia. Who later becomes Winston Smith’s love/sex interest

==================================================

Question: Who is Rutherford?

Answer: Former member of the Inner Party

==================================================

Question: who is Katherrine?

Answer: Winston’s wife, who never appears directly in the book but is discussed at some length. Winston describes her as “unthinkful” and claims she was absurdly devoted to the Party, to the point where she referred to sleeping with Winston to produce offspring as her “duty to the Party.” The two never had children, and eventually separated. In a conversation with Julia, Winston reveals he was once tempted to murder Katharine when they were separated from others on a nature walk. However, he did not, and he assumes Katharine still lives, although he has not seen her in years.

==================================================

Question: who is Jones?

Answer: Three Inner Party members wrongly arrested in 1965 and forced to incriminate themselves of various crimes, including treason and murder. They are eventually killed. Winston finds a clipping proving their innocence and destroys the document, but never forgets holding the proof that Party “fact” was fiction.

==================================================

Question: who is Tillotson?

Answer: A coworker of Winston’s, he sits across from him in the Records Department and is extremely secretive about his work.

==================================================

Question: what is the telescreen?

Answer: this is a propaganda tool used by the state (“Big Brother”) to get into people’s heads and control them. It also monitors everyone’s actions and speech, completely controlling every aspect of human existence. These telescreens are everywhere - there is no escaping them in this horrible society Orwell has shown us

==================================================

Question: what is veporize?

Answer: Vaporized, verb, 1. to cause to change into vapor. 2. to become converted into vapor. 3. to indulge in boastful talk; speak braggingly.

==================================================

Question: what is the memory hole?

Answer: is a small chute in the wall that is used to carry documents down a warm current of air into an incinerator. These devices are found in the Ministry of Truth, where Outer Party members can destroy evidence of a different past using them. For example, a newspaper article that proves that the Party broke a promise will be destroyed using a Memory Hole. There is also a use of Doublethink in this device’s name, as it is used to destroy memories of the past.

==================================================

Question: what dose double think mean?

Answer: the act of ordinary people simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts.[1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy and neutrality.

==================================================

Question: what is the newspeak?

Answer: the official language of Oceania

==================================================

Question: what are the party slogans?

Answer: 1) War is Peace 2) Freedom is Slavery and 3) Ignorance is Strength.

==================================================

Question: what are 2 minuets hate?

Answer: ok so the 2 minute hate is the time in the day where everyone gathers and they basically get all fired up about there enemies, like goldstien or eastasia or eurasia (which ever one they are at war with.

that is when he first meets julia and you first see o’brien (important later)and you realize that winston is afraid that his eyes will give him away, that he is not for the party but against big brother

Read more: In “1984,” what is the two minute hate? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/744821#ixzz2vtA1YzmL

==================================================