eath?” This paragraph stresses on the importance of propaganda in 1984, and how wrong Winston (and Orwell) believe it to be. This control of the past is a big theme in 1984, and this is a good moment showing how Winston thinks about it. 3.page 48-“One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.” I like this paragraph because it reveals aspects of two important characters, Syme and Winston. Some of Syme’s character is shown here, but I think that the more important part of this is Winston’s of realization that Syme will be vaporized, and the reasons that Winston believes this. That Winston can recognize Syme’s danger to the party makes him a more dangerous threat in of itself. This consciousness of what the party wants and dislikes defines Winston. 4. Page 48-“ As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man’s brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck… ‘There is a word in Newspeak,’ said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’ ” Why does syme introduce this word to Winston? It is an early lead on to doublethink, with the contradictory meanings, but it also touches on the 2+2=5 idea from later in the book. The description of the words coming from his larynx (throat) not brain is very similar to 2+2=5 in that this man obviously swallows whatever Big Brother throws at him. 5. page 50 “Winston found and handed over two creased and filthy notes, which Parsons entered in a small notebook, in the neat handwriting of the illiterate.” I was interested by this phrase because of its obvious contradiction, being that obviously illiterate people can’t write. It is possible that Orwell is saying that Parsons has never read anything of consequence, or that he has never read any “true” literature, just the unimportant writings of big brother. 6.A) Page 43-“Syme was a philologist, a specialist in newspeak.” Philologist- the study of literary texts as well as oral and written recor>