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Notes for the Last Quarter of 1984

Part Three: Sections II to Appendix

	Fig. 1: A photograph of Orwell's press pass.
	Fig 2: The dust jacket to the original (1949) edition.

SOME STUDY QUESTIONS

41. Why does Winston still harbor feelings of respect and love for O'Brien?
42. What is the duration of Winston's torture?
43. What are the techniques that O'Brien uses to torture Winston?
44. Why does O'Brien say that he will have no martyrs?
45. What is the significance of the rats?
46. Why does O'Brien know that Winston is broken when Winston screams that O'Brien should give the rat torture to Julia?
47. What is the significance of the scar on Julia's temple?
48. Who is the best revolutionary, Winston or Julia?
49. Who is the hero, Winston or Julia?
50. In what ways can Winston be described as an antihero?
51. What is Winston's job after his "reeducation"?
52. What is the significance of the last sentence?
53. Why does the Appendix to the novel discuss Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence?
54. Is Newspeak a viable language?
55. Can one control thought by controlling the language?
56. By shinking the vocabulary of Newspeak, does the language become more vague?

    By comparison, remember that Syme, early in the novel, says that Oldspeak exemplifies the vague version of the language, In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?
    
    Do shades of meaning make language more vague or more precise?

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