What happen in Chapter 8 of 1984?
Summary: Chapter VIII Winston goes for a walk through the prole district and envies the simple lives of the common people. He enters a pub where he sees an old man—a possible link to the past. Winston laments that the past has been left to the proles, who will inevitably forget it.
What questions does Winston ask Obrien?
Inside his sumptuous apartment, O’Brien shocks Winston by turning off the telescreen. Believing that he is free of the Party’s observation, Winston boldly declares that he and Julia are enemies of the Party and wish to join the Brotherhood.
What is O Brien’s characteristic gesture?
O’Brien’s characteristic gesture is resettling his glasses on his nose. Martin is O’Brien’s servant who is also a member of the Brotherhood; Winston thinks he may be Chinese.
What privilege does O’Brien say Inner Party members have that surprise Winston and Julia?
the telescreen
Winston and Julia go to O’Brien’s luxurious apartment, where O’Brien’s servant, Martin, admits them into a room where O’Brien is dictating a message in Newspeak. To Winston’s amazement, O’Brien turns off the telescreen, a privilege allowed to Inner Party members.
Who is following Winston at the end of the chapter 8?
Upon leaving the shop, Winston sees the dark-haired girl from the fiction department. He is sure that she is following him, and he imagines smashing her in the head with a cobblestone or the paperweight he has just purchased.
What questions 2 does Winston ask O’Brien and what are the responses?
What final question does Winston ask O’Brien? “How soon will they shoot me?” How does he show his obedience to the Inner Party? His mind has become more active, therefore he is accepting the party’s ideology.
What is Winston’s final question for O’Brien before he leaves?
How did Winston spend long afternoons as a child?
Winston spent long afternoons scrounging for scraps of food from garbage bins, rubbish heaps, and a road where trucks sometimes dropped bits of cattle feed. Winston’s mother suddenly became “completely spiritless,” going about her work very slowly and apparently waiting for something to happen.
What does O’Brien tell Winston about Julia’s confession What is the significance?
O’Brien tells him that Julia betrayed him immediately. Winston asks if Big Brother exists in the same way that he himself does, and O’Brien replies that Winston does not exist.