Chapter 3

Info

• page: 31-39
• place: Winston's flat on the seventh floor of the tenement "Victory Mansions" (p. 3, l. 5)
• time: at night
• people: Winston, Winstons family, Julia

Content

• The following night, Winston dreams of an experience in his childhood. More precisely, the disappearance of his parents when he was ten or eleven years old
• He also dreams of his colleague Julia, who appears naked to him in the "Golden Country" (p. 33, l. 1). The "Golden Country" (p. 33, l. 1) is Winston's utopia of a happy and peaceful life
• He abruptly awakens by the screen and tries unsuccessfully to remember his childhood. All he can remember is that in the past, unlike today, there was peace, and with the dropping of the atomic bomb, the war set in
• Since the atomic bomb, the three world states of Eurasia, Oceania and East Asia have been at war with each other again and again. However, the citizens are not supposed to know that the states keep changing their enemies and allies, and for this reason, old documents are falsified and the population is kept ignorant
• Even if a large part of the population does not question the circumstances of the war, Winston thinks he remembers that only a few years ago, the war was waged against East Asia and not against Eurasia as it is today

Chapter 4

Info

• page: 40-50
• place: "Ministry of Truth" (p. 45, l. 28), "Records Department" (p. 45, l. 10)
• time: an unknown period
• people: Winston, Tillotson

Content

• At the beginning of Chapter 4, Winston's working procedures in the "Records Department" (p. 45, l. 10) are described. Among other things, the narrator explains what happens to waste paper that can no longer be attributed to any use. This paper waste is thrown into "memory holes" (p. 40, l. 17), from where an air stream manoeuvres the paper into an incinerator
• Winston's task is to revise existing messages and adapt them into "Newspeak" (p. 51, l. 16). Afterwards, old messages are transported into the "memory hole" (p. 40, l. 20)
• During his work, Winston observes a colleague named Tillotson as well as other employees in the "Ministry of Truth" (p. 45, l. 28), and it becomes clear that they generally know little about the other colleagues
• The narrator goes through the different departments in the "Ministry of Truth" (p. 45, l. 28) and says that the "Records Department" (p. 45, l. 10), for example, provides the citizens of Oceania with entertainment media and "every conceivable kind of information" (p. 45, l. 31 f.)
• His work in the "Records Department" (p. 45, l. 10) is Winston's "greatest pleasure in life" (p. 46, l. 22). The 39-year-old particularly likes the fact that his job consists primarily of complying with the moral principles of the system - Winston finds it easy to implement this expectation
• Especially because Winston, to be precise, manipulates the falsification of existing documents so that they turn out in favour of the "Ingsoc" (p. 4. l. 25 f.) party, it is hard to believe that he enjoys going to work
• Winston's remit also includes removing disappeared and executed opportunists from the system so that no one can raise suspicion