1984 Flashcards

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‘WAR

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‘WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’

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‘Until

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‘Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious

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BIG

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‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’

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I hated

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‘I hated the sight of you, I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards’.

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Do it to

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‘Do it to Julia… Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me!” and ‘I don’t care what you do to her’

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the beautiful

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‘the beautiful creamy paper’ … ‘[deserving] to be written on’ juxtaposed by ‘no colour…except the posters’

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DOWN

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DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER x5

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The more men

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” The more men you’ve had, the more I love you . . . I hate purity. I hate goodness.”

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“We’re destroying words

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“We’re destroying words… we’re cutting the language down to the bone”

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The black moustachioed

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The black moustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner…BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

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To begin with,

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To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984.

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The sexual act,

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The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.

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‘Always yell with

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‘Always yell with the crowd… It’s the only way to be safe’ Julia

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But you could not

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But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred

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You are the flaw

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You are the flaw in the pattern… You are the stain that must be wiped out.’

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He had won

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He had won victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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‘You will be hollow.

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‘You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.’

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A tremor had gone through

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A tremor had gone through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act.

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Who controls the past

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Who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past,”

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eyeless creature

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“eyeless creature who swallowed it frantically and passionately,”

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theyll shoot me

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theyll shoot me in the back of the head i dont care down with big brother.