1984 Flashcards
Totalitarianism
Orwell
“Two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it”
Totalitarianism
James Schellenberg
“This big brother society is too well-constructed to break apart in the face of one man’s resistance”
Totalitarianism
Podhoretz
“Orwell’s ruling passion was the fear and hatred of totalitarianism”
Propaganda
Forster
“Big Brother also lurks behind Churchill and any leader whom propaganda utilises or invents”
Propaganda
Yeo
“propaganda and surveillance are not just accidentally related, but essentially linked”
Love/sexuality
Shriver
“love and independent thought are treasonous, and patriotism is maintained with an endless phoney war”
Independence/identity
Bloom
“The destruction of personality by the erosion of personal identity in Oceania…an erosion accomplished by the steady chipping away of memory”
Independence/identity
Moustaki
“(Winston) has individuality and undying self-determination”
Loyalty
Bossche
“the large mass of common people do not find in themselves the need to think independently, to question or to investigate what they have been taught”
Language
Berkes
“language becomes a method of…mind control with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination”
Betrayal
Moustaki
“Winston’s rebellion against the Party…is no longer merely a thoughtcrime, but an overt action involving forbidden behaviour with another woman”
Winston
John Atkins
“He was a weak creature who was born to be victimised”
Winston
Weiss
“those who see Winston as a victim rather than a complicit participant in Oceania’s totalitarianism forget the delight he takes in his job”
Julia
Beddoe
“She is totally incapable of understanding the motives which drive Winston”
Feminism
Podhoretz
“Orwell’s self proclaimed egalitarianism should have extended beyond the working class man to the working class woman”
