1984 Flashcards
‘WAR
‘WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’
‘Until
‘Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious
BIG
‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’
I hated
‘I hated the sight of you, I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards’.
Do it to
‘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’
the beautiful
‘the beautiful creamy paper’ … ‘[deserving] to be written on’ juxtaposed by ‘no colour…except the posters’
DOWN
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER x5
The more men
” The more men you’ve had, the more I love you . . . I hate purity. I hate goodness.”
“We’re destroying words
“We’re destroying words… we’re cutting the language down to the bone”
The black moustachioed
The black moustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner…BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
To begin with,
To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984.
The sexual act,
The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.
‘Always yell with
‘Always yell with the crowd… It’s the only way to be safe’ Julia
But you could not
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred
You are the flaw
You are the flaw in the pattern… You are the stain that must be wiped out.’