WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.120 Section one of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. This 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.599 legamous recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose. 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.519 Part one, Chapter one. It was a bright, cold day 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.920 in April, and the clocks were striking. Thirteen Winston Smith, 5 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:21.320 his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to 6 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.800 escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors 7 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:27.839 of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a 8 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:31.280 swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:35.079 hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At 10 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:37.159 one end of it, a colored poster too large for 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.920 indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted 12 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.280 simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide, the 13 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.759 face of a man about forty five, with a heavy 14 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:51.399 black mustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. 15 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.320 It was no use trying the lift. Even at the 16 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.039 best of times, it was seldom working, and at present 17 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.719 the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It 18 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.600 was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. 19 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.159 The flat was seven flights up and Winston, who was 20 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.480 thirty nine and had a varicus ulcer above his right 21 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:14.359 ankle went slowly, resting several times on the way, on 22 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.239 each landing opposite the lift shaft. The poster with the 23 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:20.640 enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of 24 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.239 those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow 25 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.680 you about when you move. Big Brother is watching you. 26 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:31.519 The caption beneath it ran. Inside the flat, a fruity 27 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:33.599 voice was reading out a list of figures which had 28 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:36.599 something to do with the production of pig iron. The 29 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.560 voice came from an oblong metal pluck like a dulled mirror, 30 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:42.079 which formed part of the surface of the right hand wall. 31 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.439 Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though 32 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:50.400 the words were still distinguishable. The instrument, the telescreen it 33 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:52.879 was called, could be dimmed, but there was no way 34 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.920 of shutting it off completely. He moved over to the window, 35 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.840 a smallish, frail figure, the meagerness of his body merely 36 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.560 emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of 37 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:08.280 the party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, 38 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.479 his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades, 39 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:16.039 and the cold of the winter that had just ended outside. 40 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.319 Even through the shut windowpane, the world looked cold down 41 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.680 in the street. Little eddies of wind were whirling dust 42 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.879 and torn paper into spirals, And though the sun was 43 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.800 shining and the sky are harsh blue, there seemed to 44 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:32.120 be no color in anything except the posters that were 45 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:37.000 plastered everywhere. The black mustachioed face gazed down from every 46 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:41.039 commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately opposite. 47 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.759 Big brother is watching you, the caption said, while the 48 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:49.000 dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own. Down at street level, 49 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.560 another poster torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, 50 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.879 alternately covering and uncovering the single word inksock. In the 51 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.719 far distance, a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered 52 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.360 for an instant like a blue bottle, and darted away 53 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.919 again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol 54 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.759 snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however, 55 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:17.520 Only the thought police mattered. Behind Winston's back, the voice 56 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.280 from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig Iron 57 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.840 and the over fulfillment of the ninth three year plan. 58 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.759 The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously, any sound that Winston 59 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.719 made above the level of a very low whisper would 60 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.000 be picked up by it. Moreover, so long as he 61 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.080 remained within the field of vision which the metal plak commanded, 62 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.319 he could be seen as well as heard. There was, 63 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.319 of course, no way of knowing whether you were being 64 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.360 watched at any given moment. How often or on what 65 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.560 system the thought police plugged in on any individual wire 66 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.080 was guess work. It was even conceivable that they watched 67 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.240 everybody all the time. But at any rate they could 68 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.400 plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had 69 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.879 to live, did live from habit that became instinct, in 70 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.719 the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, 71 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.759 except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. Winston kept his back 72 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.400 turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he 73 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.240 well knew, even a back can be revealing a kilometer away. 74 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.560 The Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast 75 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.160 and white above the grimy landscape. This, he thought, with 76 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.240 a sort of vague distaste. This was London, chief city 77 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.560 of airstrip I, itself the third most populous of the 78 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.279 provinces of Oceania. He tried to squeeze out some childhood 79 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.560 memory that should tell him whether London had always been 80 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.639 quite like this? Were there always these vistas of rotting 81 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.480 nineteenth century houses, their sides shored up with the bulks 82 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.759 of timber, their windows patched with cardboard, and their roofs 83 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.839 with corrugated iron, Their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions. 84 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.800 And the bombed sights where the plaster dust swirled in 85 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.800 the and the willow herbs straggled over the heaps of rubble, 86 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.279 and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch, 87 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.680 and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings 88 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.920 like chicken houses. But it was no use. He could 89 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.759 not remember. Nothing remained of his childhood except a series 90 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:21.920 of bright lit tableaus, occurring against no background, and mostly unintelligible. 91 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.879 The Ministry of truth mini true in new Speak. New 92 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:30.120 Speak was the official language of Oceania. For an account 93 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:34.279 of its structure and etymology, see appendix. Was startlingly different 94 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.480 from any other object in sight. It was an enormous, 95 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:42.079 pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up terrace after 96 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:46.360 terrace three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood, 97 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.800 it was just possible to read, picked out on its 98 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:52.199 white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the party. 99 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:59.439 War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. The 100 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.360 Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms 101 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:07.759 above ground level and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London. 102 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.879 There were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. 103 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.600 So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from 104 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.120 the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four 105 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.639 of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four 106 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.199 ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. 107 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.639 The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, 108 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.000 and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned 109 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.480 itself with war, The Ministry of Love, which maintained law 110 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.000 and order, and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible 111 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.480 for economic affairs. Their names in news speak, Mini True, 112 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:49.920 Mini packs, Mini Love, and mini plenty. The Ministry of 113 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.040 Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows 114 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:56.000 in it at all. Winston had never been inside the 115 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.319 Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. 116 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.160 It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, 117 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.040 and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed 118 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:10.360 wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine gun nests. Even 119 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.720 the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed 120 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:17.720 by guerrilla faced guards in black uniforms armed with jointed truncheons. 121 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.480 Winston turned round abruptly. He had set his features into 122 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.240 the expression of quiet optimism, which it was advisable to 123 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.120 wear when facing the telescreen. He crossed the room into 124 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.240 the tiny kitchen. By leaving the ministry at this time 125 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.560 of day, he had sacrificed his lunch in the canteen, 126 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:36.680 and he was aware that there was no food in 127 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.399 the kitchen except a hunk of dark colored bread, which 128 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.560 had got to be saved for to morrow's breakfast. He 129 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.079 took down from the shelf a bottle of colorless liquid 130 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.720 with a plain white label marked Victory Gin. It gave 131 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:51.720 off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice spirit. 132 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.439 Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, 133 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:01.079 and gulped it down like a dose of medicine. Instantly 134 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.279 his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of 135 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.079 his eyes. The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, 136 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.639 in swallowing it, one had the sensation of being hit 137 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.319 on the back of the head with a rubber club. 138 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.319 The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down, 139 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.399 and the world began to look more cheerful. He took 140 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:21.879 a cigarette from a crumpled packet marked Victory Cigarettes and 141 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.399 incautiously held it upright, whereupon the tobacco fell out on 142 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.600 to the floor. With the next he was more successful. 143 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.000 He went back to the living room and sat down 144 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.039 at a small table that stood to the left of 145 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.320 the telescreen. From the table drawer he took out a 146 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.000 pen holder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto 147 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.080 sized black book with a red back and a marbled cover. 148 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.000 For some reason, the telescreen in the living room was 149 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.639 in an unusual position. Instead of being placed as was normal, 150 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.360 in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, 151 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.879 it was in the longer wall, opposite the window. To 152 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:57.799 one side of it, there was a shallow alcove in 153 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.240 which Winston was now sitting, and which when the flats 154 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.519 were built had probably been intended to hold book shelves. 155 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.039 By sitting in the alcove and keeping well back, Winston 156 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.480 was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen. 157 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:13.679 So far as sight went, he could be heard, of course, 158 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:15.960 but so long as he stayed in his present position, 159 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.399 he could not be seen. It was partly the unusual 160 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.600 geography of the room that had suggested to him the 161 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:25.559 thing that he was now about to do, But it 162 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.600 had also been suggested by the book that he had 163 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.519 just taken out of the drawer. It was a peculiarly 164 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.720 beautiful book. Its smooth, creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, 165 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.080 was of a kind that had not been manufactured for 166 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.639 at least forty years past. He could guess, however, that 167 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.720 the book was much older than that. He had seen 168 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:45.840 it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk 169 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.480 shop in a slummy quarter of the town. Just what 170 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.600 quarter he did not now remember, and had been stricken 171 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:56.039 immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it. Party members 172 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.879 were supposed not to go into ordinary shops dealing on 173 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.440 the free market, it was called, but the rule was 174 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.279 not strictly kept because there were various things such as 175 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.240 shoelaces and razor blades, which it was impossible to get 176 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.120 hold of in any other way. He had given a 177 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.559 quick glance up and down the street, and then had 178 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.399 slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty. 179 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.559 At the time he was not conscious of wanting it 180 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.320 for any particular purpose. He had carried it guiltily home 181 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.440 in his briefcase, even with nothing written in it. It 182 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.840 was a compromising possession. The thing that he was about 183 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.360 to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal. 184 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.879 Nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws, 185 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.799 but if detected, it was reasonably certain that it would 186 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.559 be punished by death or at least by twenty five 187 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:46.240 years in a forced labor camp. Winston fitted a neb 188 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.039 into the pen holder and sucked it to get the 189 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.200 grease off. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used 190 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.360 even for signatures, and he had procured one furtively and 191 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.679 with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful, 192 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:00.919 creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real 193 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.240 nib instead of being scratched with an ink pencil. Actually, 194 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.200 he was not used to writing by hand, apart from 195 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.200 very short notes. It was usual to dictate everything into 196 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.679 the speak write, which was of course impossible for his 197 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.440 present purpose. He dipped the pen into the ink and 198 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.960 then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone 199 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.679 through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act. 200 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:30.360 In small, clumsy letters, he wrote April fourth, nineteen eighty four. 201 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.960 He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended 202 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.360 upon him. To begin with, he did not know with 203 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.720 any certainty that this was nineteen eighty four. It must 204 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.200 be round about that date, since he was fairly sure 205 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.720 that his age was thirty nine, and he believed that 206 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.039 he had been born in nineteen forty four or nineteen 207 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.320 forty five. But it was never possible nowadays to pin 208 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.720 down any date within a year or two. For whom 209 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.080 it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing 210 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.600 this diary for the future, for the unborn. His mind 211 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.399 hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, 212 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.840 and then fetched up with a bump against the new 213 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:12.919 speak word double think. For the first time, the magnitude 214 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.879 of what he had undertaken came home to him. How 215 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.759 could you communicate with the future? It was of its 216 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.240 nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in 217 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.440 which case it would not listen to him, or it 218 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.159 would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless. 219 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.919 For some time, he sat gazing stupidly at the paper. 220 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:36.320 The telescreen had changed over to strident military music. It 221 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.639 was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost 222 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.039 the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten 223 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.559 what it was that he had originally intended to say. 224 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.000 For weeks past, he had been making ready for this moment, 225 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.559 and it had never crossed his mind that anything would 226 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.279 be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. 227 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:56.840 All he had to do was to transfer to paper 228 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:00.120 the interminable, restless monologue that had been running inside his 229 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.600 head literally for years. At this moment, however, even the 230 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.159 monolog had dried up. Moreover, his varicus ulcer had begun 231 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.519 itching unbearably. He dared not scratch it, because if he 232 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.360 did so, it always became inflamed. The seconds were ticking by. 233 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.320 He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the 234 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:20.559 page in front of him, the itching of the skin 235 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.360 above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a 236 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:28.639 slight booziness caused by the gin. Suddenly he began writing 237 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.639 in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was 238 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.720 setting down. His small but childish handwriting straggled up and 239 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.960 down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally 240 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:44.919 even its full stops. April fourth, nineteen eighty four, Last 241 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.720 Night to the flicks, all war films. One very good 242 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.159 one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere 243 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:54.879 in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great, 244 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.320 huge fat man trying to swim away, with the helicopter 245 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.240 after him. First you saw him wallowing along in the 246 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.559 water like a paupoise. Then you saw him through the 247 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.399 helicopter's gun sights. Then he was full of holes, and 248 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.960 the sea round him turned pink, and he sank as suddenly, 249 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.639 as though the holes had let in the water. Audience 250 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.519 shouting with laughter when he sank. Then you saw a 251 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.480 lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. 252 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.519 There was a middle aged woman, might have been a jewess, 253 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.440 sitting up in the bow with a little boy about 254 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.240 three years old in her arms. Little boy screaming with 255 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.919 fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if 256 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:29.039 he was trying to burrow right into her, and the 257 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.000 woman putting her arms round him and comforting, although she 258 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.240 was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him 259 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.120 up as much as possible, as if she thought her 260 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.200 arms could keep the bullets off him. Then the helicopter 261 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.840 planted a twenty kilo bomb in among them, terrific flash, 262 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.480 and the boat went all to matchwood. Then there was 263 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.840 a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up, up, 264 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.000 up right up into the air. A helicopter with a 265 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.519 camera in its nose must have followed it up, and 266 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.679 there was a lot of applause from the party seats. 267 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:57.919 But a woman down in the prole part of the 268 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.480 house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting. They 269 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.679 didn't order have showed it, not in front of the kids. 270 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.039 They didn't. It ain't right, not in front of kids. 271 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.720 It ain't until the police turned her, turned her out. 272 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:10.519 I don't suppose anything happened to her. Nobody cares what 273 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:16.240 the prolls say, typical prole reaction. They never Winston stopped writing, 274 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:19.320 partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not 275 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.399 know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. 276 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:24.919 But the curious thing was that while he was doing so, 277 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.000 a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, 278 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:30.639 to the point where he almost felt equal to writing 279 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.279 it down. It was he now realized, because of this 280 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.080 other incident, that he had suddenly decided to come home 281 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.120 and begin the diary to day. It had happened that 282 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.679 morning at the Ministry. If anything so nebulous could be 283 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.600 said to happen, it was nearly eleven hundred and in 284 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.799 the records department, where Winston worked. They were dragging the 285 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.120 chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the 286 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.120 center of the hall, opposite the big telescreen, in preparation 287 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.159 for the two minutes hate. Winston was just taking his 288 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.360 place in one of the middle rows when two people 289 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:04.679 whom he knew by sight but had never spoken to, 290 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.440 came unexpectedly into the room. One of them was a 291 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.240 girl whom he often passed in the corridors. He did 292 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.399 not know her name, but he knew that she worked 293 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.320 in the fiction department, presumably since he had sometimes seen 294 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.120 her with oily hands and carrying a spanner. She had 295 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.759 some mechanical job on one of the novel writing machines. 296 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.120 She was a bold looking girl of about twenty seven, 297 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.399 with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift athletic movements. 298 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.200 A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Antisex League, 299 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:37.360 was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, 300 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.039 just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. 301 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.080 Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of 302 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.360 seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of 303 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.559 the atmosphere of hockey fields and cold baths and community 304 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.120 hikes and general clean mindedness which she managed to carry 305 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:58.360 about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially 306 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.159 the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, 307 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.480 and above all the young ones who were the most 308 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.519 bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the 309 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.920 amateur's spies, and noses out of unorthodoxy. But this particular 310 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.799 girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most. Once, 311 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.880 when they passed in the corridor, she gave him a quick, 312 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.079 sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him, and 313 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.200 for a moment had filled him with black terror. The 314 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.400 idea had even crossed his mind that she might be 315 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.240 an agent of the thought police. That it was true 316 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.519 was very unlikely. Still, he continued to feel a peculiar 317 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.119 uneasiness which had fear mixed up in it, as well 318 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:41.440 as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him. The other 319 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.880 person was a man named O'Brien, a member of the 320 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.440 Inner Party and holder of some post so important and 321 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.519 remote that Winston had only a dim idea of its nature. 322 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.440 A momentary hush passed over the group of people round 323 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:55.720 the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an 324 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:59.720 Inner Party member approaching. O'Brien was a large, burly man, 325 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:01.799 with the other a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, 326 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.400 brutal face. In spite of his formidable appearance, he had 327 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.160 a certain charm of manner. He had a trick of 328 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.519 resettling his spectacles on his nose, which was curiously disarming, 329 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.440 in some indefinable way, curiously civilized. It was a gesture 330 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:18.880 of which, if any one had still thought in such terms, 331 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:22.519 might have recalled an eighteenth century nobleman offering his snuff box. 332 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.880 Winston had seen O'Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost 333 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.960 as many years. He felt deeply drawn to him, and 334 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.960 not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between 335 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.799 O'Brien's urbane manner and his prize fighters physique. Much more, 336 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.599 it was because of a secretly held belief, or perhaps 337 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:44.799 not even a belief, merely a hope that O'Brien's political 338 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:49.599 orthodoxy was not perfect. Something in his face suggested it irresistibly. 339 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.960 And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was 340 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.279 written in his face, but simply intelligence. But at any rate, 341 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:59.039 he had the appearance of being a person that you 342 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:00.799 could talk to if some how you could cheat the 343 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.039 telescreen and get him alone. Winston had never made the 344 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.200 smallest effort to verify this guess. Indeed, there was no 345 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.519 way of doing so. At this moment, O'Brien glanced at 346 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.759 his wristwatch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and 347 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.720 evidently decided to stay in the record's department until the 348 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.640 two minutes hate was over. He took a chair in 349 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:21.920 the same row as Winston. A couple of places away. 350 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:24.839 A small, sandy haired woman who worked in the next 351 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.319 cubicle to Winston was between them. The girl with dark 352 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:33.519 hair was sitting immediately behind. The next moment, a hideous 353 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.920 grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, 354 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.000 burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. 355 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.559 It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge 356 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:44.680 and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. 357 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:50.400 The hate had started, as usual. The face of Emmanuel Goldstein, 358 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:52.920 the enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen. 359 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.000 There were hisses here and there among the audience. The 360 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.799 little sandy haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear 361 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:04.000 and discussed Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who, once 362 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.720 long ago, how long ago nobody quite remembered, had been 363 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.240 one of the leading figures of the party, almost on 364 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:13.359 a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged 365 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:17.039 in counter revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and 366 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:21.279 had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programs of the Two 367 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.759 Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was 368 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:27.319 none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He 369 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:30.839 was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the party's purity. 370 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:37.160 All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, 371 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:42.079 deviations sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other, 372 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:46.720 he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies, perhaps somewhere 373 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.599 beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign pay masters. 374 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.519 Perhaps even so, it was occasionally rumored in some hiding 375 00:20:53.519 --> 00:21:00.079 place in Oceania itself. Winston's diaphragm was constricted. He could 376 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.640 never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture 377 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:06.279 of emotions. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great, 378 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:09.160 fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small, goaty beard, 379 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:13.039 a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a 380 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:16.119 kind of senile silliness in the long, thin nose, near 381 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:18.400 the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched. 382 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.039 It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, 383 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.359 had a sheeplike quality. Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous 384 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:29.359 attack upon the doctrines of the Party, an attack so 385 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.160 exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able 386 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:35.000 to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to 387 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.079 fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people less 388 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:40.680 level headed than oneself might be taken in by it. 389 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:44.880 He was abusing Big Brother. He was denouncing the dictatorship 390 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.640 of the Party. He was demanding the immediate conclusion of 391 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:51.680 peace with Eurasia. He was advocating freedom of speech, freedom 392 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.319 of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought. He 393 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.599 was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed. And 394 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.240 all this in rapid policy labic speech, which was a 395 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.720 sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators 396 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.440 of the party, and even contained new speak words, more 397 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:09.960 new speak words, indeed, than any party member would normally 398 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:12.920 use in real life. And all the while, lest one 399 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:15.000 should be in any doubt as to the reality which 400 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.079 Goldstein's specious clap trap covered. Behind his head on the telescreen, 401 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.519