Vocabulary 3

overcame forbearance trembling conceivable bearer undoubtedly indiscretion perturbed straightened unappeasable whimpering squeaking astonishing emerged clutching preliminary shameless consciousness feebly arguing threatened embezzlement wrenched delusion assume perishes blurry intermittently innumerable merely nearness perpetuating repentant victim condemned

победил снисходительность дрожь мыслимый предъявитель несомненно неосторожность возмущенный выпрямился непримиримый хныканье скрип удивительный возникший сжимая предварительный бесстыдный сознание слабо спорить под угрозой хищение вывернул заблуждение считать гибнет размыто с перерывами неисчислимый просто близость увековечения кающийся жертва осужденный

Questions and Answers

 I didn't really understand the ending though. I understand the story overall, of how governments can control their people and how we shouldn't let things go too far in the real world or the book could become reality. But I don't think I understand the significance of Winston finally loving Big Brother. The answer for this question and others I found on the internet.

As for why Winston does end up loving Big Brother... The Ministry of Love was there to make people love big brother (through torture, but you know, that was its purpose) so they wouldn't have released him if the job wasn't done. Also the book is meant as a warning, that is why Winston can't win, if he'd won, the book would be saying that no matter how bad it gets, we can always triumph, and that's not the message that Orwell intended.

Is big brother a symbol for anything? 

Big Brother is the symbol of the government itself. The government isn't any single person, it's a monolithic entity made up of an unknown number of people. Big Brother is just the symbol they use to remind people the government is everywhere at all times.

And what was the significance of Room 101 and Winston finally betraying Julia, what was so important about Winston betraying Julia that they even set him free for it?

Room 101, it gets rid of the last obstacle. The party used their basic instincts against them. It's like if blinking=betrayal and somebody was jabbing their finger in your eye, it's impossible not to blink. You could argue that betrayal doesn't equal lack of love, but just imagine yourself in Winston's situation. It'd feel pretty weird loving someone you betrayed and who knew you'd betrayed them and had in turn done the same to you. You have to keep in mind Julia also betrayed him. 

At one point or another Winston says, or thinks, I can't remember exactly, that the one thing they can't take away is there love. Surely they can't make anyone change their REAL feelings about someone. So if they keep loving each other Big Brother can never win. At the same time, Big Brother knows this. It's stated several times they don't want anyone to have meaningful relationships, they only want them to love Big Brother. Also Winston talks about making love as a political act. That is, every time they made love it was a statement against what Big Brother stood for.

Alternative ending

For the novel "1984" of J. Orwell I would write absolutely another ending. This ending is too sad.

I would like that Winston with Julia after all enter the Brotherhood. That the revolt began and to the  totalitarian mode the end came. Also I would like that the world-dystopia turned out to the world-utopia .

Furthermore I would write that Winston with Julia sincerely fell in love with each other and established a new family and then their children would already live in the ideal world.

Certainly, my ending isn't suitable for dystopia because then it wouldn't be that. Besides it is too banal and easily predictabled.

Review

Review was taken here http://nicolebasaraba.com/book-review-1984-by-george-orwell/

I will write my comments in bold type :)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell is by far the most disturbing book I’ve ever read. Near the top of my disturbing reading list was Lord of the Flies (like), The Way the Crow Flies (dislike) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (love). Actually,  for me "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris was the most disturbing book. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" certainly is the exciting book too, but there was too much "description of description" because of what all excitement came to bottom and reding became just boring.

Do you like to read complete dystopia? Well Orwell is an expert in creating a world so horrible that it can leave the reader feeling depressed from page one. Here I basically agree. The plot of the book is typical of any good dystopia. The author describes a society that lives by the rules, which aim is to save this society from destruction or "decay." Elaborate rules and laws aimed at building a "common good". This implies a complete control over man: over his thoughts, words, actions. And even deeper over his feelings, emotions and experiences.

Generally it is about... (Ending)

One day Winston receives a letter from the dark-haired girl. “I love you,” - writes she. Girl tells him her name, Julia, and they begin a covert affair on the lookout for signs of Party monitoring. Eventually they rent a room above the secondhand store in the prole district where Winston bought the diary. This relationship lasts for some time. Winston is sure that they will be caught and punished sooner or later, while Julia is more optimistic. As Winston’s affair with Julia progresses, his hatred for the
Party grows more and more. At last, he receives the message that he has been waiting for: O’Brien wants to see him.

Then Winston and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment. As a member of the powerful Inner Party (By the way, Winston belongs to the Outer Party), O’Brien leads as luxury life as Winston can only imagine. O’Brien confirms to Winston and Julia that, like them, he hates the Party, and says that he works against it as a member of the Brotherhood. He introduces Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, the manifesto of the Brotherhood. Winston reads the book (an amalgam of several forms of class-based twentieth-century social theory) to Julia in the room above the store. Suddenly, soldiers barge in and seize them. Mr. Charrington, the proprietor of the store, is revealed as having been a member of the Thought Police all along.

Poster

I think that this poster characterizes that in Oceania everybody are under the eternal supervision of the Big Brother in the history of Orwell. In all rooms telescreens which on the one hand, hypnotize people with their translations, and on other hand observe them.

                                                                                       Continuous control.

Slogan

Оne of the main slogans in the book is "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past".

 This slogan is an important example of the Party’s technique of using false history to break down the psychological independence of its people. Control of the past ensures control of the future, because the past can be treated essentially as a set of conditions that justify or encourage future goals: if the past was idyllic, then people will act to re-create it; if the past was nightmarish, then people will act to prevent such circumstances from recurring. The Party creates a past that was a time of misery and slavery from which it claims to have liberated the human race, thus compelling people to work toward the Party’s goals.
The Party has complete political power in the present, enabling it to control the way in which its subjects think about and interpret the past: every history book reflects Party ideology, and individuals are forbidden from keeping mementos of their own pasts, such as photographs and documents. As a result, the citizens of Oceania have a very short, fuzzy memory, and are willing to believe anything that the Party tells them. 

Vocabulary 2

perpetually decaying dingy bruised proles possessed pardoned reinstated crowded recognition leaflets marching abruptly sweat growing stirring blazed pleasant boldness washtub scrape enormous necessity threadbare boyhood vaguely swarming ashamed glancing amusement resemble reverting inexhaustible exhortations pinchbeck

постоянно разлагающийся темный синяках пролетарии одержимый помилован восстановлен переполненный признание листовки походный резко пот растущий перемешивание пылал приятный смелость корыто очистить огромный необходимость изношенный отрочество неясно рост бактерий на твердой среде совестно взглянув развлечение походить на возвращаясь неисчерпаемый призывы томпак