1984 Study Guide: Book 3- Ch. 3 & 4 (P. 260-282)

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1984 Study Guide: Book 3- Ch. 3 & 4 (p. 260-282)

1984: Book III – Chapter 3

1. What are the “three stages of reintegration” that O’Brien mentions to Winston?

2. What does the reader discover about Goldstein’s book? What does O’Brien tell Winston that the book was truthful about?

3. What fact does O’Brien expect Winston to start accepting?

4. Why does the Party seek power according to Winston?

5. Why does the Party seek power according to O’Brien?

6. O’Brien says that they can control matter by controlling what?

7. How does O’Brien define Power?

8. If you were going to draw a picture of the future, what would it look like? 9. How many years has O’Brien been playing with Winston?

10. What does O’Brien use to symbolize the decay of humanity?

1984: Book III – Chapter 4

1. How has Winston started to change physically?

2. Explain the following: “Even the speck of whitish dust on the cover of his diary they had carefully replaced.”

3. Explain how one can philosophically argue that the law of gravity is nonsense.

4. What does Winston think the tradition is about shooting people?

5. What must one do to keep a secret?

6. What does Winston decide makes up freedom.

7. O’Brien is onto Winston’s thoughts. He says that intellectually he is improving. Where is he lacking?

8. Where is Winston going to learn to love Big Brother?