Winston
The Party
Vocabulary
Plot
Plot
100

Describe Winston. (2 descriptions)

He's 39, weak, has sanguine skin, smallish frail figure

100

Who is O'Brien?

a leader of The Brotherhood, a resistant movement to Big Brother

100

The genre of literature that focuses on when an ideal government becomes dysfunctional 

Dystopian 

100

Besides the newspaper, name three other types of media the Records Department works with.

Books, pamphlets, periodicals, films, leaflets, sound tracks, cartoons, and photographs

100

What does Winston say “were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version”? 

Statistics

200

Why did Winston fabricate (make up) the entire story about Comrade Ogilvy?

In order for him to take the place of a former Big Brother official who was executed for being an enemy of the Party

200

Where is the location of Airstrip One?

Oceania

200

What is used to watch the people and how is it described?

Telescreen; an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror

200

What is the quote underneath the poster?

¨Big Brother is watching you¨

200

According to Winston, what's the most frightening Ministry and what is it responsible for?

Ministry of Love; maintained law and order

300

What is Winston’s greatest pleasure?

His job

300

Ingsoc is the Newspeak word for what Oldspeak term?

English Socialism

300

Being removed from society because of thoughtcrime

Vaporized

300

War is __, Freedom is __, Ignorance is __

Peace, Slavery, Strength

300

What are the uniforms that people wear?

Blue overalls

400

What is Winston's job?

To rewrite history

400

What group of people are at the bottom of society? 

the proles 

400

To hold two completely different beliefs in one´s mind and still accept both.

Doublethink

400

What are memory holes?

where papers are disposed of and then destroyed

400

What does the Thought Police symbolize?

The overpowering and overarching control that the government has over the citizens of Oceania

500

What ailment does Winston struggle with?

A varicose ulcer above his right ankle

500

What did the Party falsely claim to invent?

Airplanes

500

What's the difference between a paradox and an oxymoron?

Paradox is contradiction of ideas (war is peace); oxymoron is contradiction of words (silent scream)

500

Who is Emmanuel Goldstein

The person to whom the Two Minutes of Hate is devoted 

500

What is the Brotherhood?

Some kind of mythical resistance movement