1984

Chapter 12
Room 101

He is much better. He is getting fatter and stronger every day. The new cell is more comfortable than the others he has been in. There is a bed and a chair to sit on. There is paper and an ink-pencil. They have given him a bath and they let him wash frequently in a metal bowl. They even give him warm water to wash with. They have given him new overalls, pulled out the rest of his teeth and given him new false teeth.

1984

Chapter 11
The Last Man

"There are three stages in returning you to society," says O'Brien. "There is learning, there is understanding and there is acceptance. It is time for you to begin the second stage."

As always, Winston is lying flat on his back. He is still tied to the bed, but these days he is not tied so tightly. The machine, too, is less frightening. He can stop them using it if he thinks quickly enough. O'Brien pulls the lever only when he says something stupid.

1984

Chapter 10
Two and Two Make Five

He is lying on a bed and he cannot move. There is a strong light in his face. The damage to his elbow was only the start of it. Five or six men in black uniforms hit him with sticks or iron bars, kicked him with their boots…

1984

Chapter 9
Miniluv

He does not know where he is. He thinks he is in the Ministry of Love, Miniluv, but he cannot be certain.He is in a cell with a high ceiling and no windows. Its walls are white and made of stone. It is bright with cold light. In this place, he feels, the lights will never be turned out. One moment he feels certain that it is a bright day outside and the next moment he is equally certain that it is black night. "We shall meet in the place where there is no dark," O'Brien said to him. In the Ministry of Love there are no windows.

1984

Chapter 8
Doublethink

On the sixth day of Hate Week, just before two thousand Eurasian prisoners were hanged in the park, the people of Oceania were told that they were not at war with Eurasia now. They were at war with Eastasia and Eurasia was a friend. You could hear it on the telescreens — Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

Chapter 7
Our Leader, Emmanuel Goldstein

They vaporized Syme. One morning he was not at work; a few careless people talked about his absence. On the next day nobody talked about him. His name disappeared from lists and newspapers. He did not exist. He had never existed.

Chapter 6
They Can’t Get Inside You

Winston looks around the little room above Mr Charrington's shop. As he thought, Mr. Charrington was happy to rent it to him. He does not even mind that Winston wants the room to meet his lover. Everyone, he said, wanted a place where they could be alone and private occasionally.

Chapter 5
A Political Act

Four days later he sees the girl with dark hair again. He is walking to the toilets at the Ministry of Truth and she is coming towards him. She must have hurt her hand. It is in a plaster cast. She has probably hurt it fixing one of the story-writing machines - it is a common accident in that department.

1984

Chapter 4
Ownlife

Winston sits at the table and opens his diary. He thinks of his parents. He was, he thinks, about ten or eleven years old when his mother disappeared. She was a tall, silent woman with lovely fair hair. He cannot remember his father so well. He was dark and thin and always wore dark clothes. They were both vaporized in the 1950s. His thoughts move to other women and he starts writing in the diary:

1984

Chapter 3
The Ministry of Truth

Winston pulls the speakwrite towards him and puts on his glasses. To the right of the speakwrite there is a small hole, to the left a larger one. In the office wall there is a third hole, larger than the other two.

Chapter 2
The Spies

As he opens the door, Winston sees that he left the diary open on the table. DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER is written in it, in letters you can almost read across the room. But everything is alright. A small, sad-looking woman is standing outside.

"Oh, Comrade Smith," she says, in a low little v oice, "do you think you could come across to my flat and help me with our kitchen sink? The water is filling up the sink and ..."

1984

PART ONE
Thoughtcrime

Chapter 1
Big Brother Is Watching You

It is a bright, cold day in April and the clocks are ringing thirteen. Winston Smith walks home quickly to Victory Mansions with his head down to escape the terrible wind. He does not close the door fast enough, and dust comes inside with him. The hall smells of yesterday's food.