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○ Chapter 4: Rewriting History
■ This chapter is named "Rewriting History" because Winston works for the Ministry of
Truth, in the Records Department. His job is to go through documents and media
resources and rewrite them. He takes statements and events that have happened, changing
them so that what Big Brother has said and done is true and correct. He basically rewrites
history, after doing that the corrected documents are replaced as the original copies, when
in fact, they aren't original. Winston does like his job, he even says it gives him pleasure.
He is good at rewriting things and wording things in a way that Big Brother would - he
even says it requires a level of creativity for he has to create stories in order to protect Big
Brother. He understands the responsibility of his work, for Big Brother is so controlling,
as O'Brien said: "who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past" (pg. 44)

○ Chapter 5: Saving Stupidity
■ This chapter is named "Saving Stupidity" because of how Parsons and Syme act as they
all have lunch together. In that totalitarian society, who ever is oblivious to the Party's
manipulation is saved from it's tortures. While Mr. Parsons discusses how proud he is for
having children that spies for the government, Syme discusses the principles of
Newspeak - both show how orthodoxy they are. However, Syme is too smart, he
understands and controls how people think by composing the 11th edition of the
dictionary. Mr. Parsons, in the other hand, is ignorant to everything the Party does; he has
the saving stupidity, Syme doesn't, he has too much power in his hands, and puts his life
in danger by not having it.

○ Chapter 6: Impregnable to the Soul
■ This chapter is called "Impregnable to the Soul" because it discussed how women behave
in that totalitarian government. In this part of the book, Winston remember Katherine, his
former wife, they separated after 11 months of marriage - she had the most "stupid,
vulgar, empty mind [...] she had not a thought that wasn't a party slogan" (pg. 85).
Through Katherine we see how the government has power even when it comes to private
relationships. The party wanted to "kill the sex instinct, and if it could not be killed then
they would distort it and dirty it" (pg. 84), that is, they would try to eliminate any
pleasure and desire that came with sex. Katherine refused to feel any of that with
Winston, and only did do it because the government encouraged children in married
couples. In fact, she would refer it as "our duty to the party" (pg. 85). Here we clearly see
the totalitarian government ideologies influencing private lives, for women don't have
sexual intercourses in the name of the Party; they are impregnable when it comes to
private relationships. As Winston said: "the woman of the Party are all alike, Chastity
was as deeply ingrained in them as Party loyalty" (pg. 86).