What is a totalitarian regime? How does such a regime attain, maintain, and increase power? What is its main concern? How does it compare with other political structures? Democracy, for example?
What role does technology play in this book? In what ways does the Party employ technology? In what ways does technology make the overall themes of this book possible?
Which is worse: mind control or physical control? In what sense are they one and the same?
Think about Newspeak. Does language shape thoughts? Actions? Is language necessary for either thought or action? Without language, does reality exist? Does perception?
