1984 Part 2 Chapter 4 pg 136 147

1984 Part 2, Chapter 4 {pg. 136 -147}

Chapter Preview Winston and Julia rent the room above Mr. Charrington's shop. Inside the room, they "pretend" as if they are a "normal" couple: Julia finds black-market coffee, sugar, chocolate, perfume (scent), makeup, etc. Many references are made to "past" objects.

Places ● The room above Mr. Charrington's shop: “. . . The twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece. . . ”(137).

Faces - Julia ● Julia - wears makeup, puts on perfume, and "tends house" while in the room: ● "In this room I'm going to be a woman, not a Party comrade" (142). ● “With just a few dabs of color in the right places she had become not only much prettier, but, above all, far more femine”(142).

Faces - Winston's changing desire for Julia: "She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had a right to. " (139) "Both of them knew it was lunacy. It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. " (140)

Faces – prole woman outside the window �“…a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle…in a powerful contralto: ” (137 -38) �“Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy” (141). �“Perhaps it was only when people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about”(142).

Imagery and other literary elements �Passage on page 138 begins with, “The tune �Ends with, “…of a telescreen” Contains imagery of sounds heard outside the window of the apartment” Passage page 139 -140, “For a moment…before it happened. ” Sight and smell of Julia - page 142 Winston – page 143 “Presently they fell asleep…at the oil stove” (143). “Already the black…of the glass” (145).

Symbols and motifs �Popular song sung by the prole woman ● Rats - Winston's greatest fear: "Of all the horrors in the world--a rat!" (144). ● Little chunks of history they've forgotten to alter o o o the glass paperweight: "That's what I like about it. It's a little chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter. It's a message from a hundred years ago, if one knew how to read it. " (145) The picture of the church – “St. Clement’s Dane. . . ”(146) the lines from the rhyme

Symbols and motifs �Glass paperweight: �“…gleamed softly out of the half-darkness”(136). �“She brought the glass paperweight…how to read it”(145). �“He turned toward the light … at the heart of the crystal”(147).

Forshadowing �Rats: “Of all horrors in the world – a rat!” ( 144). �“For several moments he had …without discovering what it was” (145) �Rhyme: “Here comes a candle…off your head”(146)