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Parsons, Syme and Mr. Charrington. Illustration of their roles in the novel 1984.
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Case: 6079 Smith W.
Syme
7080
Charrington
Parsons
7925
3439
3439 Parsons T.
Outer Party member: Ministry of Truth
Case relevance:
- Known comrade of 6079
- Neighbor of 6079
- Coworker of 6079
Extended exposure to
corruption
Profile: 3439 Parsons Tom
Outer Party Member
Characteristics:
Family:
- Overweight
- Under-average intelligence
- Active community member:
- lead community hikes and activities
- treasurer for Hate Week
- Excellent doublethink
- Wife: Mrs. Parsons
Age: 31
- Children:
1 Son Age: 9
1 Daughter Age: 7
- Current status: Unperson
Work:
- Ministry of Truth
- low ranking position
Televisor Recordings
04/04/1984 1:57 PM
6079 Smith W. is recorded in Parsons flat
( Victory Mansions)
04/05/1984 1: 18 PM
Parsons is recorded in canteen in company of 6079
( Ministry of Truth)
Televisor Recordings
04/18/1984 1:08 PM
3439 Parsons T. meets distressed 6079 in the canteen
( Ministry of Truth)
07/19/1984 6:39 PM
6079 Smith W. assists Parsons T. in preparing for Hate Week
( Victory Mansions)
Televisor Recordings
08/05/1984 10:17 AM
3439 Parsons T. meets Smith W. in detainment area 201
( Ministry of Love)
08/09/1984 08:07 AM
Subsequent vaporization
Acquirement of status: Unperson
08/04/1984 09:28 AM
Thought criminal reporting: by 4206 Parsons A.
Elements of the offense:
"Down With Big Brother!"
08/03/1984 11:47 PM
Audio recording: telescreen #5820 - 2
Victory Mansions: Apartment 315
Case-importance: 3439 Parsons T.
Prime Example of Party Doctrine
Certain "friendliness" towards Smith W.
Vaporization not self-imposed
Corrupting influence of Smith W.
Evidence #63 - 1
"Down with big brother!"
(3439 Parsons T.)
7080 Syme
- Outer Party Member
- tiny creature
- dark hair with large eyes
- Work: Ministry of Truth (Research Department)
connection to
Winston
- Specialist in Newspeak
- worked on the 11th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary
- current status: unperson
Conversation about
new Dictionary
Televisor Recordings
04/05/1984 01:04 PM
Syme is recorded in canteen in company of 6079
( Ministry of Truth)
Invention of
Words
Dictionary of NewSpeak 11Th Edition
X
Procedure
Language gets
into its final shape
Destruction of
Words
Everything will change
Televisor Audio-Recordings
"You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston. Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I have read some of those pieces that you write in the Times occasionally. They are good enough, but they are translations. In your heart you would prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning.”
Syme
01:15 PM
- Syme believed in the principles of Ingsoc
- He venerated Big Brother
- Syme rejoiced over victories
- He hated heretics
loyal party-member, who believed in the system
Thought
Criminal
Syme:
- too intelligent
- saw too clearly and spoke too plainly
- said things that should have been unsaid
- read too much books
Party:
-> wants their members to be unconscious, thoughtless individuals
Syme could have been a threat to the system
Decision
Syme had to disappear
04/18/1984
- took his name off all the committee lists
--> Syme has ceased to exist: he had never existed
- caught him in the morning and made him disappear
Reactions
Televisor Recordings
04/19/1984
( Ministry of Truth)
No records about Syme
04/18/1984
( Ministry of Truth)
A few thoughtless people
commented on Syme's absence
Televisor Recordings
04/21/1984
( Records Department)
Winston looked for Syme's name on the list of the Members of the Chess Committee
7925 Charrington
"pseudo prole" and Thought Police Officer
60 years old <> 32 years old
black hair
frail and bowed
no spectacles
white hair
bushy eyebrows
wearing spectacles
Televisor Recordings
51° 30' 30 N
01/27/84 5:31 pm
Smith W entering shop.
01/27/84 5:32 pm
Smith W talking w/Charrington.
01/27/84 5:32 pm
Smith W purchasing object number #3761.
Televisor Recordings
51° 30' 30 N
04/14/84 8:54 pm
Smith W entering shop.
04/14/84 8:55 pm
Smith W talking w/Charrington.
Televisor Audio-Recordings
51° 30' 30 N
"I recognised you on the pavement. You're the gentleman that bought the young lady's keepsake album. That was a beautiful bit of paper, that was." [...] Is there anything I can do for you? Or did you just want to look around?
Charrington
8:54:37 pm
"I was passing. I just looked in. I don't want anything in particular."
Smith
8:55:02 pm
"It's just as well, because I don't suppose I could have satisfied you."
Charrington
8:55:11 pm
Televisor Audio-Recordings
51° 30' 30 N
"What is it?
"That's coral that is. [...]"
Smith
8:57:23 pm
"It's a beautiful thing.
Charrington
8:57:27 pm
Smith
8:57:40 pm
"It is a beautiful thing. But there's not many that'd say so nowadays. Now, if it so happened that you wanted to buy it, that'd cost you four dollars"
Charrington
8:57:43 pm
Televisor Recordings
51° 30' 30 N
04/14/84 8:54 pm
Smith W entering shop.
04/14/84 8:55 pm
Smith W talking w/Charrington.
04/14/84 9:01 pm
Smith W purchasing object number #4171.
Televisor Recordings
Oranges and Lemons
Say the bells of st. Clement'S
51° 30' 30 N
04/14/84 9:01 pm
Smith W and Charrington going upstairs.
04/14/84 9:02 pm
Smith W talking w/Charrington.
04/14/84 9:03 pm
Smith W nearing televisor.
04/14/84 9:15 pm
Smith W leaving building.
Televisor Recordings
"Pick up those pieces"
51° 30' 30 N
08/03/84 4:45 pm
Smith W interacting with forbidden object #1.
08/03/84 6:00 pm
Dixen J. joining Smith W.
08/03/84 8:35 pm
Charrington alarming Thought-Police-executives.
summary
ambivalent identity
main part in arresting Smith W
loyal member of the party
-> no (actual) need for vaporising