Winston's Family & Past
The decade Winston estimates his mother and father were "swallowed up" in a purge.
What are the fifties?
Winston calls the landscape of short springy turf that recurs in his dreams this two-word name.
What is the Golden Country?
Winston had to spring to attention in front of the telescreen to perform this daily physical activity.
What are the Physical Jerks?
Winston's body was nearly always attacked by this violent physical reaction soon after waking up.
What is a coughing fit?
At the current moment in 1984, Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with this third power.
What is Eastasia?
The physical trait Winston remembers about his mother's hair.
What is magnificent fair hair?
The Golden Country is specifically described as an old pasture that had been bitten by this animal.
What are rabbits?
Before it was called Airstrip One, Winston's country had been called England or this.
What is Britain?
This painful skin condition on Winston's body began itching during the coughing fit.
What is the varicose ulcer?
The Party asserts that the enemy of the moment always represents this.
What is absolute evil?
The things Winston's father wore, which Winston especially remembers for their very thin soles.
What are shoes?
The girl with dark hair came toward Winston across the field and tore off this.
What are her clothes?
In 1984, Oceania was at war with this power and allied with Eastasia.
What is Eurasia?
Winston loathed the toe-touching exercise because it sent shooting pains all the way from his heels to this body part.
What are his buttocks?
Winston knew it was a lie that the Party had invented this mode of transporation, having remembered them since his earliest childhood.
What are aeroplanes?
Winston estimates he was this age when his mother disappeared.
What is ten or eleven years old?
This feeling was not aroused in Winston by the sight of the girl's body.
What is desire?
The Party slogan states, "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls" this.
What is the past?
This is the name for the group of soldiers mentioned by the instructress to encourage the comrades to keep fit.
What are our boys on the Malabar front?
This is the name, or Oldspeak form, for 'Ingsoc' which Winston did not believe he had heard before 1960.
What is English Socialism?
The subterranean place where Winston's mother and sister were sinking, which was like a well or a very deep grave, and later compared to this type of room.
What is the saloon of a sinking ship?
Winston woke up from his dream with the name of this famous writer on his lips.
What is Shakespeare?
This is the mental act of holding two contradictory beliefs at once and accepting both as true.
What isdoublethink?
Winston succeeded in touching his toes for the first time in several years by performing this type of movement.
What is a violent lunge?
The Party slogan states that the person who controls the future controls this.
What is the past?