'1984' Quiz

Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to change historical texts to match the current propaganda being distributed by the government.

In Newspeak, doublespeak means "[t]o know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself [...]."

In a small act of rebellion, Winston positions himself out of the range of the telescreen and writes his forbidden thoughts (or "thoughtcrimes") in his diary. His diary entry says "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" over and over again.

Appearing initially as a kind old man who rents Winston a private room and sells him some interesting antiques, Mr. Charrington is later revealed to be a member of the Thought Police who has been setting Winston up for arrest from the very beginning.

At the Ministry of Love, Winston is tortured until he breaks down and confesses to imaginary crimes, but he still defiantly insists that he loves Julia. However, he finally betrays her when his torturer, O'Brien, forces him to face his greatest fear–rats. Just as the rats are coming for him, Winston begs O’Brien to torture Julia instead of himself.