1984 Chapter 25 Literary Analysis

Through chapter 1

• Dominant themes: Chapter 1 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
• Motif recurrence signals: 5
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 2

• Dominant themes: WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran; 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 voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dul ed mirror which formed part of the surface of the righthand wal
• Motif recurrence signals: 5
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 3

• Dominant themes: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below; Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size; So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture th
• Motif recurrence signals: 12
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 4

• Dominant themes: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 8 But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone’s eyebal s was too vivid to wear off immediately; The little sandy-haired woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of h
• Motif recurrence signals: 4
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 5

• Dominant themes: DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, fil ing half a page; He could not help feeling a twinge of panic; It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages an
• Motif recurrence signals: 4
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 6

• Dominant themes: Chapter 2 As he put his hand to the door-knob Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table; DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER was written al over it, in letters almost big enough to be legible across the room; It was an inconceivably stupid thing to have done
• Motif recurrence signals: 9
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 7

• Dominant themes: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH He took a twenty-five cent piece out of his pocket; There, too, in tiny clear lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and on the other face of the coin the head of Big Brother; Even from the coin the eyes pursued you
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 8

• Dominant themes: Chapter 3 Winston was dreaming of his mother; He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his mother had disappeared; She was a tal , statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and magnificent fair hair
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 9

• Dominant themes: Chapter 4 With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day’s work started, Winston pul ed the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles; Then he unrol ed and clipped together four smal cylinders of paper
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 10

• Dominant themes: Chapter 5 In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward; The room was already very ful and deafeningly noisy; From the gril e at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metal ic smel which did not quite overcome the fumes of Victory Gin
• Motif recurrence signals: 13
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 11

• Dominant themes: Chapter 6 Winston was writing in his diary: It was three years ago; It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations; She was standing near a doorway in the wal , under a street lamp that hardly gave any light
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 12

• Dominant themes: Chapter 7 If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles; If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated; The Party could not be overthrown from within
• Motif recurrence signals: 14
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 13

• Dominant themes: Chapter 8 From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smel of roasting coffee — real coffee, not Victory Coffee — came floating out into the street; Winston paused involuntarily; For perhaps two seconds he was back in the half-forgotten world of his childhood
• Motif recurrence signals: 14
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 14

• Dominant themes: Chapter 9 It was the middle of the morning, and Winston had left the cubicle to go to the lavatory; A solitary figure was coming towards him from the other end of the long, brightly-lit corridor; It was the girl with dark hair
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 15

• Dominant themes: Chapter 10 Winston picked his way up the lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools of gold wherever the boughs parted; Under the trees to the left of him the ground was misty with bluebel s; The air seemed to kiss one’s skin
• Motif recurrence signals: 8
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 16

• Dominant themes: Chapter 11 ’We can come here once again,’ said Julia; ’It’s general y safe to use any hide-out twice; But not for another month or two, of course
• Motif recurrence signals: 0
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 17

• Dominant themes: Chapter 12 Winston looked round the shabby little room above Mr Charrington’s shop; Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster; The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece
• Motif recurrence signals: 10
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 18

• Dominant themes: Chapter 13 Syme had vanished; A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence; On the next day nobody mentioned him
• Motif recurrence signals: 9
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 19

• Dominant themes: Chapter 14 It had happened at last; The expected message had come; Al his life, it seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen
• Motif recurrence signals: 10
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 20

• Dominant themes: Chapter 15 Winston had woken up with his eyes ful of tears; Julia rol ed sleepily against him, murmuring something that might have been ’What’s the matter?’ ’I dreamt-’ he began, and stopped short; It was too complex to be put into words
• Motif recurrence signals: 13
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 21

• Dominant themes: Chapter 16 They had done it, they had done it at last! The room they were standing in was long-shaped and softly lit; The telescreen was dimmed to a low murmur; the richness of the dark-blue carpet gave one the impression of treading on velvet
• Motif recurrence signals: 10
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 22

• Dominant themes: Chapter 17 Winston was gelatinous with fatigue; Gelatinous was the right word; It had come into his head spontaneously
• Motif recurrence signals: 12
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 23

• Dominant themes: 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; They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless 108 different names, and their relative numbers, as wel as t
• Motif recurrence signals: 4
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 24

• Dominant themes: Chapter 18 He did not know where he was; Presumably he was in the Ministry of Love, but there was no way of making certain; He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cel with wal s of glittering white porcelain
• Motif recurrence signals: 7
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None

Through chapter 25

• Dominant themes: Chapter 19 He was lying on something that felt like a camp bed, except that it was higher off the ground and that he was fixed down in some way so that he could not move; Light that seemed stronger than usual was fal ing on his face; O’Brien was standing at his side, looking down at him intently
• Motif recurrence signals: 10
• Tension / tone: moderate / steady
• Unresolved threads: None