1984 Literature 1949. Written by George Orwell.

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Total Records: 38 - Medium: LITERATURE

#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	The 10th 3 Year Plan	BBB	Literature	Printed Matter
	The 10th 3 Year Plan Plan for the command of the government.
2	The 9th 3 Year Plan	BBB	Literature	Printed Matter
	The 9th 3 Year Plan Plan for the command of the government.
3	The Book	BBB	Literature	Books
	The Book It was a book without a title. People referred to it, if at all, simply as THE BOOK. But one knew of such things only through vague rumours. Neither the Brotherhood nor THE BOOK was a subject that any ordinary Party member would mention if there was a way of avoiding it.
4	The Brotherhood	BBB	Organizations	Secret Organizations
	The Brotherhood But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were - in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less. Always there were fresh dupes waiting to be seduced by him. A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. The Brotherhood, its name was supposed to be.
5	Chestnut Tree Cafe	BBB	Dining	Cafes and Delis
	Chestnut Tree Cafe Cafe frequented by painters and artists.
6	Death Worship	BBB	Organizations	Political Parties
	Death Worship Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.
7	Floating Fortress	BBB	Vehicles	Watercrafts
	Floating Fortress Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck. The music from the telescreen had stopped. Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe lslands.
8	The Hate Song	BBB	Music	Songs
	The Hate Song The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week - the Hate Song, it was called - had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens. It had a savage, barking rhythm which could not exactly be called music, but resembled the beating of a drum. Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying. The proles had taken a fancy to it, and in the midnight streets it competed with the still-popular 'It was only a hopeless fancy'. The Parsons children played it at all hours of the night and day, unbearably, on a comb and a piece of toilet paper.
9	Ingsoc	BBB	Organizations	Political Parties
	Ingsoc Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.
10	The Junior Anti-Sex League	BBB	Organizations	Activist Groups
	The Junior Anti-Sex League She had been a troop-leader in the Spies and a branch secretary in the Youth League before joining the Junior Anti-Sex League. She had always borne an excellent character.
11	Neo-Bolshevism	BBB	Organizations	Political Parties
	Neo-Bolshevism Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.
12	Newspeak Dictionary	BBB	Literature	Books
	Newspeak Dictionary Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.
13	One Night in a Girls' School	BBB	Literature	Books
	One Night in a Girls' School She had even been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked. There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like "Spanking Stories" or "One Night in a Girls' School", to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.
14	Spanking Stories	BBB	Literature	Books
	Spanking Stories She had even been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked. There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like "Spanking Stories" or "One Night in a Girls' School", to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.
15	Speakwrite	BBB	Technology Products	Communication Devices
	Speakwrite The speakwrite is a technological device in which the user of the product speaks into a microphone, and the device comprehends the language and records it.
16	The Spies	BBB	Youth Services	Youth Camps
	The Spies Youth league used to systematically turn children against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations.
17	Steamer	BBB	Weapons	Miscellaneous Weapons
	Steamer Nickname the proles applied to rocket bombs.
18	The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical ...	BBB	Literature	Books
	The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Paper by Emanuel Goldstein.
19	The Thought Police	BBB	Legal Aid	Police Departments
	The Thought Police In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.
20	The Times	BBB	Periodicals	Newspaper Times
	The Times It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which 'The Times' did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak - 'child hero' was the phrase generally used - had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.
21	Versificator	BBB	Goods	Musical Instruments
	Versificator The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.
22	Victory Cigarettes	BBB	Tobacco	Cigarettes
	Victory Cigarettes Instantly his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of his eyes. The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful. He took a cigarette from a crumpled packet marked VICTORY CIGARETTES and incautiously held it upright, whereupon the tobacco fell out on to the floor. With the next he was more successful. He went back to the living room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen. From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and a marbled cover.
23	Victory Coffee	BBB	Beverage Products	Coffee
	Victory Coffee Winston and Syme pushed their trays beneath the grille. On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch - a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.
24	Victory Gin	BBB	Beverage Products	Alcohol
	Victory Gin In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did not quite overcome the fumes of Victory Gin. On the far side of the room there was a small bar, a mere hole in the wall, where gin could be bought at ten cents the large nip.
25	The Youth League	BBB	Youth Services	Youth Camps
	The Youth League On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies, and a full-sized poster of Big Brother.
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
26	April 4, 1984	Dates	20th Century: 80s	Events
	April 4, 1984 Winston Smith starts his secret diary.
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
27	Airstrip One	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Airstrip One Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape. This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste - this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of Oceania. He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this.
28	Eastasia	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Eastasia Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was generally at peace with the other.
29	Eurasia	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Eurasia Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was generally at peace with the other.
30	The Golden Country	Map	Geographic Areas	Countries
	The Golden Country The Golden Country is a place in Winston's dreams that makes him happy.
31	Oceania	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Oceania Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was generally at peace with the other.
32	The Palace of Justice	Map	Structures	Mansions
	The Palace of Justice Building that Winston mentions that's near the ruins of the oval building with rectangular windows depicted in a steel engraving.
33	Victory Mansions	Map	Residential Communities	Apartment and Condos
	Victory Mansions Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
34	Victory Square	Map	Urban Areas	City Squares
	Victory Square "Where was St Martin's?" said Winston. "St Martin's? That's still standing. It's in Victory Square, alongside the picture gallery. A building with a kind of a triangular porch and pillars in front, and a big flight of steps."
OTHER
35	Goodsex	Other	Language	Sexual Jargon
	Goodsex The normal intercourse between man and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children and without physical pleasure. All else is sexcrime.
36	Ownlife	Other	Language	Profanity
	Ownlife Newspeak term for the tendency to enjoy being solitary or individualistic, which is considered subversive. Winston Smith comments that even to go for a walk alone or to sing to oneself can be regarded as suspicious.
37	Sexcrime	Other	Language	Sexual Jargon
	Sexcrime Goodsex is the normal intercourse between man and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children and without physical pleasure. All else is sexcrime.
38	Untitled	Other	Themes	Shield, The
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