1984 pt. 2 ch. 3

"It's generally safe to use any hide-out twice. But not for another month or two, of course" (126)

Julia seems to have everything all figured out. It's like she has a whole plan in her head that she had carefully articulated. She knows a lot about sneaking around and how to stay safe while using almost obsessive caution.

enunciating: v. To announce
systematically: adj. using step-by-step procedures

1984 pt. 2 ch. 1

"At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid." (109)

Winston feels that because he was told he was loved, the Party is not as strong as it used to be. Or rather, that he was stronger than the Party, or could become stronger.

inapplicable: adj. irrelevant
folly: n. act of foolishness

1984 5&6

"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." (53)

Syme is very loyal to The Party and to Newspeak. Winston thinks he'll be vaporized because he knows too much, even though he is very dedicated to Big Brother. This shows that The Party is not looking for people who are simply loyal, but for people who are blind. You can't be loyal and have a mind of your own. It threatens them.

Paraffin: n. a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming

Thread: v. To make ones way cautiously through

1984 4

"It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones." (47)

Winston is thinking about when people get vaporized. It's so simple to vaporize a person. One call and all of the records that the person ever lived is completely annihilated. To create a person is just as simple. Come up with a life and say that Big Brother says he exists, and he exists.

Pedantic: adj. overly concerned with formalisms

Pneumatic: adj. pertaining to air

1984 2&3

"Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." (27)

This is so important because even your thoughts aren't really your own with the thought police after you. These people aren't able to be private at all; not even in their heads. Some one is always watching them, waiting for them to give the slightest hint that they're even thinking about disloyal and it's off with their heads!

Purge: v. to rid

gilded: v. to overlay with a thing covering of gold

Othello 5.2

"Look on the tragic loading of this bed.\This is thy work. The object poisons sight;\Let it be hid." (5.2.359-361)

Lodovico here is reprimanding Iago for his actions. This quote stuck out the most for me because, although Iago led to Desdemona's death and Othello's suicide and killed Emilia, he's only getting lectured. There's no real punishment or anything going on, he's just getting away with it.

wrought: (v) Work

amorous: (adj) inclined to love

Othello 4.2-4.3

"I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,\Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,/ Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom.\ If any wretch have put this in your head,\Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse,\For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,\There's no man happy. The purest of their wives is foul as slander." (4.2.12-19)

Emilia is speaking to Othello, telling him that he's an idiot for thinking so wrongly of Desdemona. She says that if Desdemona is unfaithful, then all men must have cheating wives, since she is the purest of all, which is a really interesting way to get her message across.

procreants: (adj) procreating

cozening: (v) to decieve