Part 2 Chapter 1

At work, the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department, Julia, takes a fall in front of Winston, who notices her arm in a sling and helps her to her feet. Julia slips a small folded piece of paper into Winton’s hand and continues on her way. When Winston is finally able to open it, it reads: ‘I love you’.

Winston finds it difficult to focus for the rest of the day, and instead figures out a way to meet the darkhaired girl. When they are finally able to talk, the pair arranges to meet in in the crowded Victory Square where Julia then articulates a plan for them to meet more privately. Winston’s predicament has taking on a new risk level; with Julia, his hopes for sexual intimacy are renewed, but acting upon these will surely make his thought crimes visible.

Part 2 Chapter 1 Quotes

To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston … (Winston and Julia’s first meeting) Part 2 Chapter 1

Part 2 Chapter 2

Winston and Julia meet in a country hideout where Julia has met with other Outer Party men. They venture to the edge of the woods, the scenery of which reminds Winston of the Golden Country of his dreams. A bird’s singing for the simple sake of singing intrigues Winston; it symbolises a free expression that is at odds with Winston’s world. When Winston and Julie finally make love, Winston happily views the encounter a political act against the Party.

Part 2 Chapter 2 Quotes

The music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity… For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. Part 2 Chapter 2

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. Part 2 Chapter 2

Part 2 Chapter 3

Apart from fragmentary conversations on the streets, Winston and Julia have only been able to meet privately again in the belfry of a ruined church. There Winston learned more about Julia: her job, her sexual affairs, her hatred for the Party, the double life she leads of overt orthodoxy and private rebellion. The pair discuss the reality of being caught. Winston believes it to be a surety, while Julia is optimistic that through ‘luck, cunning and boldness’, secret way to survive is possible.
Winston and Julia make a plan to meet in the country hideout again.

Part 2 Chapter 3 Quotes

‘Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!’ she said parenthetically. (Julia) Part 2 Chapter 3

She could describe the whole process of composing a novel… But she was not interested in the finished product. She ‘didn’t much care for reading,’ she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces. (Julia) Part 2 Chapter 3

‘When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour…’ (Julia) Part 2 Chapter 3

The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately. Part 2 Chapter 3

‘We are the dead.’ (Winston) Part 2 Chapter 3

Part 2 Chapter 4

Winston has rented the room above Mr Charrington’s shop for the purposes of meeting with Julia, a risky decision for which he knows he will eventually be arrested. As he surveys the comforts of the room, he hears a prole woman outside singing while she hangs out the laundry. The song was created by a machine called a versificator that requires no human intervention.

Julia arrives with real coffee, sugar, bread, jam and tea, luxuries only available to the Inner Party. She puts on makeup and perfume, which are all contraband. The pair make love with the prole’s singing from next door adding a simple, homey quality to the affair.

When they wake, Julia sees a rat in the corner and throws a shoe at it. Winston has a panicked reaction and is reminded of a recurring nightmare. Julia comforts him, and when Winston shares his fear of rats, Julia assures him she will plaster the hole. Julia notices the paperweight and picture of St Clement’s Dane church and, when Winston recites the beginning of the rhyme he learned from Mr Charrington, she chimes in with more of its verses. Astonished, Winston feels the rhyme carries significance and resigns himself to finding out the rest of its verses.

Winston focuses his attention on the glass paperweight, a symbol of both his attachment to the past and of the secret life he and Julia have created in the room; he and Julia are the coral inside the glass, suspended for eternity in its transparent depths.

Part 2 Chapter 4 Quotes

Nor did he seem shocked or become offensive knowing … that Winston wanted the room for the purpose of a love-affair… Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. (Mr Charrington) Part 2 Chapter 4

One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish. (the singing woman prole) Part 2 Chapter 4

It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete. He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it… Part 2 chapter 4

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal, frozen in time. Part 2 Chapter 4

Back at work, Winston learns that his earlier prediction has come true, Syme has vanished – vaporised – his name removed from the Records Department as though it never existed. Part 2 Chapter 4

Part 2 Chapter 5

Winston and Julia continue to meet in the room above Mr Charrington’s store, knowing it cannot last much longer, and imagine living different lives. Winston is surprised that Julia is not as devoted to the Party as he had initially thought but instead only pays them lip-service while she lives her private life in rebellion. He attempts to educate her as to the consequences of losing history but she is disinterested in the past and only interested in the present.

Part 2 Chapter 5 Quotes

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one’s lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. Part 2 Chapter 5

‘Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there.’ (Winston to Julia) Part 2 Chapter 5

‘History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.’ (Winston to Julia) Part 2 Chapter 5

I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind …’ (Winston to Julia) Part 2 Chapter 5

One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it? She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed. (Julia) Part 2 Chapter 5

Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. (Winston, on Julia) Part 2 Chapter 5

Part 2 Chapter 6

At work, Winston is sought out by O’Brien who provides positive feedback on one of Winston’s articles, and also alludes to the disappeared Syme. O’Brien offers to lend Winston a copy of the latest edition of the Newspeak dictionary and provides his address. Winston is convinced that O’Brien contrived the meeting only to provide his address and believes that he has come to the edges of the conspiracy he always knew existed. Winston’s decision to meet with O’Brien is the climax to the novel.

Part 2 Chapter 6 Quotes

Even while he was speaking to O’Brien … He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave … he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him. Part 2 Chapter 6

Part 2 Chapter 7

In the rented apartment, Winston awakes from a troubling dream and recalls memories surrounding his mother’s death. He tells Julia how as a child he was always hungry and that one day he stole a piece of chocolate from his small, weak sister and ran away for a few hours. When he returned, both his mother and sister had disappeared and he never saw them again.

As Winston remembers his mother’s love for him, he comes to realise the depths of the Party’s psychological manipulation and reappropriation of human relations for political purposes. At once, Winston understood that only the proles had managed to escape this fate; the proles had retained the private loyalties and primitive emotions that made one human.

Winston and Julia again discuss the inevitability of their arrest and of being made to confess. They agree that whatever the Party makes them confess through torture, they could not alter their inner heart, and that by preserving their true feelings for one another, they would remain human and thus have thwarted the Party’s goals.

Part 2 Chapter 7 Quotes

…yet she had possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. (Winston’s mother) Part 2 Chapter 7

What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. The proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. Part 2 Chapter 7

The proles had stayed human. Part 2 Chapter 7

Part 2 Chapter 8

Winston and Julia make the risky visit to meet O’Brien at his home. They confess to being enemies of the Party and that they wish to join the Brotherhood. O’Brien initiates the pair into the group by making them agree to perform certain hypothetical yet horrendous actions, including that they never see each other again. He explains how the pair will receive their directives and lays out the plan for how Winston will receive a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s. O’Brien and Winston farewell each other by exchanging composite parts of ‘we shall meet again in the place where there is no darkness’, after which Winston enquires whether O’Brien knows the St Clement’s church nursery rhyme. To Winston’s surprise, O’Brien finishes the last line of the stanza.

Part 2 Chapter 8 Quotes

… he had nothing of the single-mindedness that belongs to a fanatic. (Winston, on O’Brien) Part 2 Chapter 8

When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage. ‘This is unavoidable,’ his voice seemed to say … ‘But this is not what we shall be doing when life is worth living again.’ (Winston, on O’Brien) Part 2 Chapter 8

‘We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.’ (O’Brien) Part 2 Chapter 8

‘We shall meet again… In the place where there is no darkness…’ Part 2 Chapter 8

Part 2 Chapter 9

Winston is exhausted after working many long hours altering history to reflect the lie that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia and that Eurasia was an ally. Winston had received Goldstein’s book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, from an anonymous Brotherhood agent. In the room over Mr Charrington’s shop he reads the book privately and then out loud to Julia. The book outlines the Party’s history and ideology.

The lengthy book, whose chapter titles form the Party slogans, outlines the theory of social classes throughout recent history from High Class, Middle Class, and Low Class to the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. Eurasia was created when Russia subsumed all of Europe, Oceania was created when the United States absorbed the British Empire, and Eastasia is made up of the remaining nations. Each superstate preserves its oligarchical power by keeping its respective people preoccupied in a perpetual war with the other superstates. The fact that the wars never advance and none of the states defeat each other is because the war is contrived to allow the ruling parties to keep the masses ignorant of life in other places, which is the real meaning behind the phrase ‘WAR IS PEACE’.

Part 2 Chapter 9 Quotes

Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. (Goldstein’s book) Part 2 Chapter 9

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. (Goldstein’s book) Part 2 Chapter 9

The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. (Goldstein’s book) Part 2 Chapter 9

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. (Goldstein’s book) Part 2 Chapter 9

A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. (Goldstein’s book) Part 2 Chapter 9

Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. (Goldstein’s Book) Part 2 Chapter 9

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. (Goldstein’s Book) Part 2 Chapter 9

DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. (Goldstein’s Book) Part 2 Chapter 9

The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. (Goldstein’s Book) Part 2 Chapter 9

… the Party … systematically undermines the solidarity of the family, and it calls its leader by a name which is a direct appeal to the sentiment of family loyalty. (Goldstein’s Book) Part 2 Chapter 9

Part 2 Chapter 10

Winston and Julia awake from sleep and as they hear prole woman singing outside, they remember the singing bird they saw when they first met in the country hideout. Suddenly, a voice from behind the St Clement’s Church picture on the wall says: ‘You are the dead.’ The voice from the telescreen behind the picture was that of Mr Charrington. Winston and Julia are arrested, and the glass paperweight is smashed.

Each of the novel’s symbols recur in this chapter including: the singing woman prole, the singing bird, the St Clement’s Church rhyme, and the glass paperweight.

Part 2 Chapter 10 Quotes

Without having read to the end of THE BOOK, he knew that that must be Goldstein’s final message. The future belonged to the proles. Part 2 Chapter 10

The birds sang, the proles sang. The Party did not sing. Part 2 Chapter 10

‘We are the dead,’ he said.
‘We are the dead,’ echoed Julia dutifully.
‘You are the dead,’ said an iron voice behind them. (Winston, Julia & Mr Charrington) Part 2 Chapter 10

It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police. (Winston, on Mr Charrington) Part 2 Chapter 10