Chapter+Summaries

=__**Paul Did This**!__ >:p= (Not Katy)

**Overall Summary**
The story unfolds on a cold April day in 1984 in Oceania, the totalitarian superpower in post World War II Europe. Winston Smith, employed as a records (no, not vinyl) editor at the Ministry of Truth, drags himself home to Victory Mansions (nothing victorious about them) for lunch. Depressed and oppressed, he starts a journal of his rebellious thoughts against the Party. If discovered, this journal will result in his execution. Now //that’s// playing with fire. For the sake of added precautions, Winston only writes when safe from the view of the surveying telescreens. And when that shot of industrial grade "Victory Gin" kicks in.

At work, Winston becomes curious about "the brunette" (a.k.a. Julia), a machine-operator in the Fiction Department. Although at one time he feared that she was a member of the Thought Police, all such paranoia ends when she slips him a note reading "I love you" in the corridor one day. The two begin a secret love affair, first meeting up in the countryside, and then in a rented room atop Mr. Charrington’s shop in the prole district. All of these places are away from surveillance – or so they think.

As Winston and Julia fall deeper in love, Winston’s views about their government (the Party) change. There’s something about Ingsoc that doesn’t seem quite right – is it the manipulation? The changing of history? The all-around sketchiness? Winston is drawn to the revolutionary "Brotherhood" because, well, they’re revolutionary. Eventually, Winston makes contact with O’Brien, who Winston thinks is a member of the Brotherhood, but who in actuality is a member of the Thought Police. O’Brien arranges for Winston to receive a copy of "the book," a resistance manifesto which supposedly exposes the //how// and the //why// for the resistance.

Unfortunately, Winston never finds out the //why//. Instead, he gets tortured. But before the torturing, he and Julia are apprehended by the Thought Police. Turns out that secret hiding place wasn’t so secret after all. The happy couple is then brought to the Ministry of Love, where criminals and opponents of the Party are tortured, interrogated, and "reintegrated" before their release and ultimate execution. O’Brien runs the show as far as Winston’s torture sessions are concerned.

Months later, Winston is sent to Room 101, where a person is faced with his greatest fear. Rats…why did it have to be rats? Musing on the impending rats-chewing-on-his-face scenario, Winston calls out "do it to Julia!" That’s pretty much what O’Brien was looking for, so Winston gets to go back to being a happy member of the rat race. Released, Winston’s heart is filled with love for the Party. Even when he and Julia meet again by chance, they feel apathetic towards each other. The last man in Europe has been converted and destroyed. Quite the fine point there, George.

= = =1984 is made up of three different parts, each containing approximately 10 chapters.=

**Part One: Chapter One**
The novel's first chapter introduces the reader to the novel's protagonist, Winston Smith of Airstrip One, Oceania. Winston is an unimportant member of Ingsoc, the controlling party of Oceania. As he labors up the stairs to his apartment, he passes several posters of Big Brother, the embodiment of party leadership, who in reality represents opression, but to citizens represents all that is good. Winston commits //thoughtcrime// by writing DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER in his diary, the possession of which constitutes //thoughtcrime//.

**Part One: Chapter Two**
Winston hears a knock at the door and fears it's the thought police. It's actually his neighbor whose sink he unplugs and whose children are junior spies for the party.

**Part One: Chapter Three**
Winston dreams of his mother, of a naked girl running toward him, and of Shakespeare, all three of which represent //thoughtcrime//. He awakens to the telescreen's shrill cry of exercise time.

**Part One: Chapter Four**
Winston goes to work at The Ministry of Truth. His job is to falsify past records to make them conform to current reality.

**Part One: Chapter Five**
Winston eats lunch with Syme, an expert on Newspeak, the official language of the party, whose purpose is to reduce the number of words and to render //thoughtcrime// impossible.

**Part One: Chapter Six**
Winston records his most recent sex act in his diary, a disgusting affair with a Prole prostitute with no teeth. He longs for a meaningful love affair, what he considers the ultimate rebellion against the party.

**Part One: Chapter Seven**
Winston writes in his diary that the only hope is in the Proles, the working class. He longs for a sense of the past, picks up a children's history book, and realizes any record of the past is controlled by the party and has been falsified.

**Part One: Chapter Eight**
Winston wanders into the Prole district and buys a paperweight at the same store he bought the diary. He notices a woman from the Ministry of Truth and fears he is being followed. He contemplates smashing her face in with a cobblestone.

Part Two: Chapter One
The girl who earlier Winston wanted to strike in the face with a cobblestone passes him a note that says "I love you." It takes several attempts, but the two are able to converse and schedule a meeting at Victory Square. Winston feels he has a reason to live.

**Part Two: Chapter Two**
The two meet in the country and engage in romantic love acts.

**Part Two: Chapter Three**
The two return to normal party lives and manage to meet only for short amounts of time. They rendezvous at an abandoned church. Winston realizes that Julia is not interested in a wide rebellion. She is only interested in outsmarting the party and having intercourse.

**Part Two: Chapter Four**
Winston rents a room above Mr Charrington's shop, where he purchased the diary and the paper weight. He realizes its a huge risk but he feels it's worth it.

**Part Two: Chapter Five**
Syme disappears (as WInston predicted earlier). Winston constantly thinks about the room above Charrington's shop, considering what goes on there, I think we understand.

**Part Two: Chapter Six**
O'Brien stops Winston in the hall and gives him his address. Winston is not sure if this is a sign from the underground or if he's one step closer to his doom.

**Part Two: Chapter Seven**
Winston and Julia visit their rented room frequently. They know they will eventually be captured and tortured and that renting the room is stupid. They continue to rent it anyhow and promise each other they will remain loyal.

**Part Two: Chapter Eight**
Winston and Julia visit O'Brien and discuss the underground with him. He promises Winston that he will deliver a book containing the secrets of the underground.

**Part Two: Chapter Nine**
Oceania is no longer at war with East Asia. It's at war with Eurasia. This forces Winston and his Ministry of Truth coworkers to log 96 hours during the next few weeks. Finally, Winston is able to escape to his rented room where he reads the book given him by O'Brien. The book explains the significance and meaning of //War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength,// and //Freedom is Slavery//.

**PartTwo: Chapter Ten**
As it turns out, Mr. Charrington is a member of the Thought Police and there's a telescreen behind the picture in the room above his shop. Winston and Julia are arrested.

**Part Three: Chapter One**
Winston awaits his punishment in a cell with other prisoners, victims of starvation and beatings. His coworker Ampleforth has been arrested, as has his neighbor Parsons. O'Brien enters and reveals himself as an agent of the Ministry of Truth. A security guard smashes Winston's elbow with a club. It hurts. Bad.

**Part Three: Chapter Two**
O'Brien tries to "cure" Winston's "insanity" with torture. Winston agrees to anything O'Brien tells him and begins to love O'Brien because he can stop the pain. O'Brien explains that the party has perfected a system that will keep them in power forever. They do not kill any prisoners until they are "cured."

**Part Three: Chapter Three**
O'Brien tortures Winston more. He tells Winston that the party's true aim is to remain in power forever by controlling all things. Winston argues that the party cannot control external events. O'Brien thinks otherwise, explaining that as long as the party controls the mind, anything is possible. O'Brien admits that Winston has yet to betray Julia, but doesn't seem too upset by it, knowing that eventually everyone is cured.

**Part Three: Chapter Four**
Winston is taken to a more comfortable room, is fed regularly, and is no longer tortured. He still hates Big Brother and wants to die hating Big Brother as a last act of rebellion. He wakes up from a dream and shouts Julia's name several times. O'Brien arrives and orders Winston to room 101.

**Part Three: Chapter Five**
Winston's face is strapped to a cage that contains starving rats. Just before O'Brien pulls the lever to release them, Winston asks that Julia take his place. With the final betrayal complete, the torture stops.

**Part Three: Chapter Six**
Winston sits at the Chestnut Tree Cafe drinking Victory Gin and accepting everything Big Brother says. He has met with Julia once since being released but neither had any interest in continuing their relationship. After news of a great war victory, Winston acknowledges he loves Big Brother.