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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter's argument and arc, then identify for yourself the central tension Orwell is developing in it, and evaluate whether he handles that tension honestly and effectively.
Discussion Questions
- Winston pauses over the question 'how do we know that two and two make four?' Where does this chapter locate the ground of such certainty, in the external world, in the agreement of other minds, or somewhere else, and why does that ground prove secure or fragile? Support your reading with the text.
- Winston finds the Party's immediate reasons for falsifying the past obvious, yet calls its 'ultimate motive' mysterious. What do you make of that gap, and why might even a thoughtful insider be unable to name the deepest reason the Party rewrites reality? Support your reading with the text.
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