Part Two, ch. IX & X
Winston receives “the book” of the Brotherhood from O’Brien and, after an intense period of work, finally gets to take it to his private, secret room and read it. Look through the excerpts of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein that Orwell reproduces in these chapters, and find the following:
· One section that seems to you to sum up what you see as the most important fact about or description of the practices, strategies, and/or philosophies of this dystopian world (“IngSoc” or the other names it goes by in East Asia and Eurasia).
· One section that seems to describe a truth that pertains in some striking and important way to our contemporary world, and/or to its history.
· One section that puts you to mind of a piece of news or rhetoric you are aware of from the past year or two.
One you’ve identified these three sections, consider the moment where Winston stops reading:
Here we reach the central secret… Deeper than [doublethink] lies original motive, the never questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought doublethink, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence. This motive really consists…
If you had to guess what this motive is, what would you guess? How would you articulate it?
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