Book Two, Chapter 3
1. How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
They met again in the bombed ruins of an old church
2. What is Julia’s job?
She runs the novel writing machine in the fiction department.
3. What is her background?
She is twenty-six years old, doesn't remember much of the early sixties, lives in a hostile with other women, is a member of the anti-sex league, and has had scores of sexual encounters with other party members the first of which was when she was sixteen.
4. What is her attitude toward the Party?
She thinks that the party’s main goal is to stop people from having fun and that's why she has had so many sexual encounters because it was her way of having a good time and to rebel against the party.
5. 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?
Her main reason for living is for her sexual side, it is the only reason she commits so much time and effort towards volunteer work and her job, so that nobody would suspect her of being capable of having so many love affairs.
6. Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?
The Party doesn't want people putting their time and energy into sexual relationships or any for that matter because they think the energy could be put to better use such as supporting and getting involved in hate week or focusing on work.
Book Two, Chapter 4
1. How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
He thought that she sang the song beautifully even though the lyrics were not good.
2. What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
Hearing woman singing beautifully, smelling good coffee, tasting the sugar in the coffee, and seeing how pretty Julia is are all things that are impossible experience as a normal party member and only by breaking these life threatening laws are they able to live in a way that most people in real life would view as basic liberties.
3. What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston was scared or the rat whereas Julia was not and shooed it away.
4. 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?
It reminds him of a time before the revolution which makes him feel good.
5. Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
The paperweight is Mr. Charrington’s spare room and Winston and Julia are the coral, unfortunately the paperweight translucent the coral can clearly be seen, therefore it is only a matter of time before someone notices what Winston and Julia are doing.
Good - much better answers!
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