1984 Flashcards

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newspeak quotes 2 min

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‘seemed to flow through the whole group like an electric current’.

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telescreen

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“Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.

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bb

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“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”

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thought police

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“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull” — “He loved Big Brother”

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surveilance

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“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.”

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julia

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“On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I Love You.”

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surveilance p2

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“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.

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Two minutes hate

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“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.”

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