1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
Chapter 1
1.
What does Winston think he has in his pockets?
2. In the holding cell, what is the astonishing difference in demeanor between the party prisoners and
the others?
3. Explain Winston’s interaction with the 60-year-old woman who was thrown onto Winston’s lap.
4. Winston overhears two party prisoners whispering and hears a reference to what?
5. What makes Winston think about the phrase “place with no darkness”?
6. What does Winston think Ampleforth might have for him?
7. Why is Ampleforth in the Ministry of Love?
8. Where are the guards taking Ampleforth?
9. When Winston asks parsons if he is guilty, what is his response?
10. Who denounced Winston?
11. What does the chinless man do and what happens to him?
12. What does skull-faced man say he is willing to do to stay away from room 101?
13. Who is Winston’s last visitor?
1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
Chapter 2
1.
Describe some of the physical abuse that Winston has experienced?
2. What are some acts that Winston has confessed to?
3. What is the matter with Winston, according to O’Brien? What is he suffering from?
4. Explain the situation with the photograph.
5. Where are two places that the past exists?
6. What is the price of sanity?
7. How is Oceania different from the Inquisition, Nazis and the Russians?
8. What interrogation does O’Brien say he took part in?
9. What does O’Brien say about Julia?
10. What is the last question Winston asks O’Brien?
1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
Chapter 3
1.
What does the reader discover about Goldstein’s book?
2. Why does the Party seek power?
3. O’Brien says that they can control matter by controlling what?
4. How does O’Brien define power?
5. If you were going to draw a picture of the future, what would it look like?
6. How many years has O’Brien been playing with Winston?
7. What does O’Brien use to symbolize the decay of humanity?
1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
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 van 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?
1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
Chapter 5
1.
What is the thing that is in room 101?
2. What is Winston’s worst fear?
3. What kind of attachment is on the cage?
4. Is what O’Brien is doing common punishment there?
5. How does Winston get out of this punishment?
1984 Chapter Guide for Part 3
Chapter 6
1.
Where does Winston spend his time now?
2. What is unique about chess in the world of Oceania?
3. What does Julia admit to Winston?
4. How often does Winston go to work and what is he working on?
5. What game does Winston remember playing with his mother and sister?
6. What does Winston decide about this memory?
7. What is the blissful dream Winston has?