Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel
By George Orwell
2020
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Abstract
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Findings
We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of the output of all classes
of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent
over the past year
Its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than 2 per cent of the population of
Oceania
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 Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind,
slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough
to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him
 Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do
with the production of pig-iron
 The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. He
moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely
emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party

 Its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than 2 per cent of the population
of Oceania
 If we find it necessary to communicate with you, it will be through Martin
Scholarcy Summary
By George Orwell
This edition published March 2020 in England by Obooko Publishing, with immense respect
and gratitude to the author.
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PART ONE
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his
chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the
glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust
from entering along with him.
Some are concerned with planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and
larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable
armour-plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of
being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for
breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others strive to produce
a vehicle that shall bore its way under the soil like a submarine under the water, or an
aeroplane as independent of its base as a sailing-ship; others explore even remoter
possibilities such as focusing the sun’s rays through lenses suspended thousands of
kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping
the heat at the earth’s centre
None of these projects ever comes anywhere near realization, and none of the three
superstates ever gains a significant lead on the others.
He propped the book against his knees and began reading: Chapter I
Ignorance is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been
three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.

The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania,
NeoBolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the
conscious aim of perpetuating UNfreedom and INequality.
These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the
working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly
industry and centralized government
As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less
tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they
were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.
It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a
member of the Thought Police
PART THREE
The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to
care nothing for anybody
They yelled insults at the guards, fought back fiercely when their belongings were
impounded, wrote obscene words on the floor, ate smuggled food which they produced
from mysterious hiding-places in their clothes, and even shouted down the telescreen when
it tried to restore order.
Opposite Winston there sat a man with a chinless, toothy face exactly like that of some large,
harmless rodent
His fat, mottled cheeks were so pouched at the bottom that it was difficult not to believe
that he had little stores of food tucked away there.
Winston did not look at him again, but the tormented, skull-like face was as vivid in his
mind as though it had been straight in front of his eyes
Findings
We have won the battle for production! Returns completed of the output of all classes of
consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent
over the past year.
Its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than 2 per cent of the population of
Oceania
The Principles of Newspeak
Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological
needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.
Without a full understanding of the principles of Ingsoc it was difficult to use these words
correctly

In some cases they could be translated into Oldspeak, or even into words taken from the A
vocabulary, but this usually demanded a long paraphrase and always involved the loss of
certain overtones.
In somewhat the same way, the party member knew what constituted right conduct, and in
exceedingly vague, generalized terms he knew what kinds of departure from it were
possible
His sexual life, for example, was entirely regulated by the two Newspeak words SEXCRIME
and GOODSEX.
In addition there were great numbers of words which at first sight appeared to be mere
abbreviations and which derived their ideological colour not from their meaning, but from
their structure
As it could be contrived, everything that had or might have political significance of any kind
was fitted into the B vocabulary.
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