Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Chapter 3-4

Chapter 3
How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
In an abandon church.
What is Julia’s job?
Novel-writings machine in the fiction department. 
What is her background?
She is 26 lives at a hostel with a bunch of other girl, she didn't like reading, but liked working with her hands on machinery. Was part of the Junior Anti-Sex League, she also worked on Pornosec.
What is her attitude toward the Party?
She hates them but she deals with it to keep living because she doesn't know anything else. 
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Winston likes Julia but Julia only wants to have sex because it is betraying the party and she likes that. 
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
Because that brings unity and Big Brother doesn't want love or unity among the people. 
Chapter 4
How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He likes the singing and carefree feeling of her singing, but the song was made by the party and he hates that, the girl represents rebellion, but it can't be shown because the lyrical content of Big Brother.
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Taste the food, Sight everything around them, touch themselves, smell of perfume and food, it shows that they are not robots because they receive pleasure from there senses robots can't feel that. 
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston hates them because they remind him of bad memories, Julia can deal with them but will try to get rid of them. 
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
The church bell means memories of Winston and before Big Brother. 
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
That the room is a sanctuary or safe haven for them because when there in the room there carefree, not worried, and happy.

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