1984 Flashcards
newspeak quotes 2 min
‘seemed to flow through the whole group like an electric current’.
telescreen
“Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.
bb
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
thought police
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull” — “He loved Big Brother”
surveilance
“In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.”
julia
“On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I Love You.”
surveilance p2
“You had to live, did live, from habit that became instinct – in assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Two minutes hate
“The horrible thing about the Two Minute speech was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”