reality and control

Question 1

party control

Answer 1

of the population through a combination of surveillance, terror and propaganda

Question 2

no laws

Answer 2

but the party can use torture to punish crime or imprisonment, or vaporisation

Question 3

constant surveillance

Answer 3

telescreens remind the citizens that they are constantly being observed, and all live in fear that their neighbours, coworkers or even family members will report them

Question 4

historical evidence

Answer 4

is destroyed as it contradicts the party’s wishes for what they want people to believe

Question 5

records department

Answer 5

task to rewrite any article or literature that contradicts the version of reality that the Party produces

Question 6

Books of the past

Answer 6

are destroyed if they don’t conform or they are translated into newspeak

Purpose of Newspeak- “to make all other modes of thought impossible”

Question 7

doublethink

Answer 7

“to understand the word “doublethink” involved the use of doublethink”

Question 8

2+2

Answer 8

“the party would announce that two and two made five”

was a communist slogan

Question 9

external reality

Answer 9

“the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy”

Question 10

reality control

Answer 10

“the past and the external world exist only in the mind”

Question 11

Minis

Answer 11

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies”

Question 12

though police

Answer 12

inspired by the Kempeitai, the Japanese wartime secret police who arrested people for “unpatriotic thoughts”

Question 13

the bombing of Airstrip One

Answer 13

is based on Buzz bombs, which struck England at random in 1944-45

Question 14

surveillance

Answer 14

he exploited the contemporary fears of surveillance

Question 15

link to BNW

Answer 15

1984 a totalitarian state, BNW a hedonistic paradise, which controls through pleasure rather than pain

Question 16

1984

Answer 16

has heightened our collective consciousness of the dangers of a surveillance state - US Patriot Act

Question 17

power of fear

Answer 17

Offred - “I don’t want pain”

Winston - “I’ll say anything they like”

Question 18

although set in Orwell’s future

Answer 18

he does not put much emphasis on technological advance, except perhaps telescreens

Question 19

conditioning

Answer 19

“Two Minutes Hate”, which encourages anger at the other states

BNW conditioning is done openly - lower caste babies are conditioned with terror and pain to hate books and nature - shows that it can be just as brutal as 1984

Question 20

religion

Answer 20

“Two Minutes Hate”, which encourages frenzied, animalistic behaviour

the ceremony Bernard goes to is similar, in the sense that it requires people to react on an instinctual level

these ‘religions’ do not attempt to elevate human nature or improve behaviour, but simply reinforce the requirements of the society