MINITRUE OPERATIONS
This furnace is where Winston deposits politically inconvenient documents to be incinerated.
What is the Memory Hole?
The fictional soldier/war hero Winston completely invents to fulfill a quota for a revised news story.
Who is Comrade Ogilvy?
The two superstates, besides Oceania, that are constantly shifting alliances in a perpetual state of war.
What are Eurasia and Eastasia?
The official language of Oceania being systematically simplified to narrow the range of thought.
What is Newspeak?
A specific toy he remembers that was popular in his childhood.
What are toy soldiers (or a telescope)?
The department where Winston works, responsible for forging and revising historical records.
What is the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue)?
Winston's profession is described as rectifying or amending this, which the Party claims is mere correction of misprints.
What is the past (or history)?
The Party's official line on its own war effort, regardless of which enemy they are fighting.
What is a glorious victory (or glorious, continuous battle)?
The phrase that exemplifies the power of Party doctrine, meaning that whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
What is 2 + 2 = 5?
The physical manifestation of Winston's resistance, a product of his "insanity," which he knows he must destroy.
What is the diary?
The three Party members who were once prominent but became unpersons, whose faces Winston sees in a photograph.
Who are Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford?
Winston realizes that all war news is merely this.
What is propaganda (or a lie/fake)?
This is what Winston believes the diary is for, though he knows no one in his time will ever read it.
What is the future (or the unborn)?
The mental process of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
What is Doublethink?
The essential crime Winston believes he is committing when he is at work and thinking for himself, before he is formally arrested.
What is Thoughtcrime?
This is the Party principle that means controlling the past, encapsulated by the slogan: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
What is Reality Control (or control of the past/history)?
This is what the Party calls a person whose entire existence has been erased from all records.
What is an unperson?
The central philosophical reason Chapter 3 reveals the Party invents characters like Ogilvy and re-writes the past.
What is to prove the Party's infallibility?
Winston realizes his job is not just to correct mistakes, but to continuously adjust the past to fit the one single reality of the moment, which is also called this.
What is the correctness of the Party (or the current truth/present)?
The color of the sash worn by the dark-haired girl whom Winston dislikes.
What is scarlet (or crimson)?
The official publication that Winston and his colleagues must constantly revise and re-issue to maintain the Party's consistency.
What is the Party history (or the Party records/texts)?
This is the official name for the process of inventing new names and details for Party members who have been vaporized.
What is Falsification (or Forging/Rectifying)?
Winston realizes that all war news is merely this.
What is propaganda (or a lie/fake)?
The crime of thinking something against the Party's doctrine.
What is Thoughtcrime?
Winston knows that writing in the diary is a direct preparation for his eventual death by this.
What is being executed (or vaporized)?