PLP 1984

Winston - does not believe in Party doctrine
Julia - dark haired girl; fiction department worker; Winston’s love interest
O’Brien - Inner Party member who betrays Winston
Big Brother- head of the Party
Emmanuel Goldstein - the Enemy of the People; leader of The Brotherhood
Charrington - a member of the Thought Police; shopkeeper who earns W+J’s trust
Ministry of Peace / Minipax - responsible for war related events
Ministry of Truth / Minitrue - responsible for news, entertainment, fine arts
Ministry of Love / Miniluv - responsible for maintaining law and order
Ministry of Plenty/ Miniplenty - responsible for economic affairs and rationing
Oceania - superstate ruled by the Party
Eastasia - ally as the novel opens; will shift to enemy superstate in middle of novel
Eurasia - enemy superstate as novel opens; will shift to ally in the middle
The Brotherhood - conspirator group against the Party
The Party - the ruling government / force in Oceania
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
GOD IS POWER
2 + 2 = 4 - what Winston knows is true
2 + 2 = 5 - O’Brien tortured Smith until he believed this
Doublethink - having two contradictory thoughts at once
Thoughtcrime - “the crime that contains all other crimes;” thinking anything against the Party
Facecrime - to show surprise, disbelief, or the wrong look on one’s face at any time
Science - no word in Newspeak for this concept
Two Minutes Hate - group frenzy against Party enemies
Child Hero - a person who is glorified for turning in their parents to the Thought Police
Junior Anti-Sex League - a group dedicated to chastity; members wear a red sash
Pornosec - the division of the Fiction Department that distributes porn to the Proles
“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“The only thing that was your own were the few cubic centimetres inside your own skull.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“It struck him [Winston] as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.”

“Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, controls the future.”
“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.”
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”