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1984, by George Orwell

Introductory Terms—Part I

This is not a list of terms to memorize. There won’t be any “vocabulary quizzes” over these terms. However, they may show up in some form in quiz or test questions, and you should be able to use them eventually in writing about the book. Note not just what the terms mean in the novel—for many of them, try to think of modern-day realities corresponding to their role in the book.

(I’ve tried to list them in the order they’re introduced. The dotted lines indicate new chapters.)

Big Brother

“Big Brother is Watching You”

VICTORY—Mansions, Gin, Cigarettes, etc.

Hate Week

Telescreen

The Party

Ingsoc

Thought Police

Three-Year Plan

Ministry of Truth/Minitrue

Airstrip One

Oceania

Newspeak

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

Ministry of Peace

Ministry of Love

Ministry of Plenty

Forced Labor Camp

Doublethink

Records Department

Fiction Department

Junior Anti-Sex League

Inner Party

Two Minutes Hate

Emmanuel Goldstein

The Brotherhood

Eurasia

Eastasia

Thoughtcrime

Vaporizing

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Youth League

The Spies

Committees

Community Center

Floating Fortress

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Physical Jerks

Outer Party

“Who controls the past controls the future; Who controls the present controls the past.”

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Memory Hole

Pornosec

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Facecrime

The Chestnut Tree Café

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“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.”

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Proles

“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

Jones, Aaronson, & Rutherford

“Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me.”

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

“The heresy of heresies was common sense.”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”