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        <title><![CDATA[How does the government affect Winston's day to day life?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the government affect Winston's day to day life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:08:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter IV of Part II, Winston admits to Julia that he is afraid of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-deep-dark-secret-does-winston-reveal-julia-40409</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter IV of Part II, Winston admits to Julia that he is afraid of rats.They communicate through notes—she passes him a love note after following him for a time—and then by meeting in secret to make love and talk. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Remember that Winston dreams of O'Brien's meeting him in &quot;the place...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-symbolic-meaning-can-drawn-from-fact-that-40675</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Remember that Winston dreams of O'Brien's meeting him in &quot;the place where there is no darkness.&quot;  Winston mistakenly interprets this as a positive place where there is only positive life and living full of love and the Golden Country.  However, in reality, the place of no darkness is the artificial torture chamber of the Ministry of Love.  The irony of the name is overwhelming.  No love is shown in this place.  It is a place of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:16:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is a saying that love laughs a locksmiths, or, as Shakespeare put...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a saying that love laughs a locksmiths, or, as Shakespeare put it, &quot; Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.&quot; Well, the Ministry of Love is locked and windowless for a very good reason. Love may laugh at locksmiths—be able to slip past all barriers—but individual humans, and the human spirit in this novel, cannot. What happens in the Ministry of Love is ugly and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:43:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What symbolic meaning can be drawn from the fact that the Ministry of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What symbolic meaning can be drawn from the fact that the Ministry of Love has no windows and is kept artificially illuminated at all times?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:40:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;1984&quot;, what deep dark secret does Winston reveal to Julia?...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/what-deep-dark-secret-does-winston-reveal-julia-40409</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;1984&quot;, what deep dark secret does Winston reveal to Julia? And how do Winston and Julia communicate?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:22:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power is represented by the totalitarian rule of Big Brother. He tries...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/how-does-1984-represent-power-39815</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Power is represented by the totalitarian rule of Big Brother. He tries to control every action and thought of the people of Oceania. People's movements are watched through telescreens and even their facial expressions are judged. If they show the wrong expression,they are guilty of a "face crime." The goal of the Party in charge of the government is to eliminate any kind of free will. People who violate even the smallest regulation are subject...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:55:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are almost too many things to mention.  There are two that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are almost too many things to mention.  There are two that present the most immediate concern to me.  The first revolves around their &quot;Who contols the present controls the past; who controls the past controls the future.&quot;  Since most of us are unable to study the past in great details, we rely on others to tell us about it.  Since we often use the past to justify/explain our actions in the present, it's clear that if...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:51:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does 1984 represent power?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does 1984 represent power?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:54:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Winston was bothered by many things.  On the personal level, he was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Winston was bothered by many things.  On the personal level, he was bothered by his behavior toward his mother and his sister when he selfishly made off with the family's chocolate ration; but he remembers that his mother continued to love him despite his behavior.  This lack of simple human contact is something that he admires in the Proles who live simple lives that seem to be full of love and human contact; his error is believing that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:08:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What bothers Winston Smith?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What bothers Winston Smith?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:54:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not sure what &quot;development&quot; means in your question, but I...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/does-winstons-development-ever-change-sense-he-38365</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what &quot;development&quot; means in your question, but I would suggest that the answer is that he does not.  Ironically, he knows that the past is not&quot;real,&quot; that the party is in control of everything, that their reach and power is everywhere, but this does not seem to change his behavior.  He continues to believe that he can keep his diary, that he can have his trysts with Julia ... that he can somehow be the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;1984,&quot; does Winston's development ever change because he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;1984,&quot; does Winston's development ever change because he works in the Ministry of Truth?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:08:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[His initial reaction is distrust. It seems odd to him that a woman such...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/how-does-winston-react-note-from-julia-before-he-38137</link>
        <description><![CDATA[His initial reaction is distrust. It seems odd to him that a woman such as her would even know or care he existed. Therefore, he had to wonder what was her motive? Was someone out to get him? Did someone set it up so they would meet? This book shows paranoia to the extreme though this paranoia is justified. When he finally does decide to read it, he has to read it in private and dispose of the letter. This further demonstrates his fear.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:12:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Winston feels confused when Julia slips him the note in the corridor. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Winston feels confused when Julia slips him the note in the corridor.  He at first believed that Julia was an enemy out to kill him and even thought of bashing her head in and killing her when he felt she was following him through the streets in Part I, chapter 8.  However, now, seeing her struggle to rise from her fall in the hallway due to her arm being in a sling, he views her as a human being in need.  Mistrust and fear cause Winston...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:19:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;1984&quot;, how does Winston react to the note from Julia...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;1984&quot;, how does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:07:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The diary serves several functions.  It's a way for Orwell to allow us...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The diary serves several functions.  It's a way for Orwell to allow us to see &quot;inside&quot; Winston's mind; it gives us a way to feel some of the things that Winston is feeling.  It also provides several layers of dramatic irony.  It's where Winston notes that as long as we can say that 2 + 2 = 4, then there is hope; we are set up for Winston's later &quot;realization&quot; that 2 + 2 can be anything the Inner Party says it is. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:36:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;1984,&quot; how does the diary function as a literary device?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/how-does-diary-function-literary-device-37687</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;1984,&quot; how does the diary function as a literary device?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:20:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Winston lives in a brutal society which attempts to control every aspect...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/1984/q-and-a/why-winston-s-betrayal-julia-such-key-point-novel-37471</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Winston lives in a brutal society which attempts to control every aspect of peoples' lives. The authorities even attempt to control what people think and feel. He has no freedom. He has no private life. He is not allowed to feel things that the authorities don't want him to feel' He is not supposed to be an individual, he is supossed to only be a 'citizen'.But Winston wants a personal life. His Love for Julia is 'anti-social',...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:34:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Winston is caught by the government, he is told that there are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Winston is caught by the government, he is told that there are three stages to his &quot;reintegration&quot;: learning, understanding, and acceptance.  Winston doesn't betray Julia until the last stage and when he yells for the torturers to, &quot;Do it to Julia! Not me!&quot;, he has capitulated and accepted Big Brother.  The acceptance of Big Brother is essential to the government because it means that Winston no longer has free will;...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:30:20 PST</pubDate>
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