1984 and Stasiland Flashcards
Quotes to describe Winstons rist act of Rebellion
- “even with nothing written on it’” it was a “compromising possession”
- “decisive act”
- “freedom is a distant memory” and the only freedom “the few inches within his skull:
- filled with “furtive knowledge”
- “restless monologue”
- writing “in some way” broke the “continuity”
- “the power to express himself”
Quotes to descrive Miriam’s first act of defiance
- “brave, strong and broken, all at once”
- “crime of sedation”
- “no longer human”
- “invulnerable teenager”
- “no idea of justice” but she had an innate feeling that “it wasn’t fair” it was “just like an itch”
Quotes to describe Miriam’s torture
- interrogated “every night”
- sleep deprivation left her “remarkably pliable”
- ‘Strange little ticks”
- “they break you.Just like fiction”
Quotes to describe WInston’s torture
- “no windows”
- “guards decide when “Winston should scream, when he should be feed” and the he “could sleep”
- help him “become sane”
- “there is no difference between night and day”
Quotes to describe Winston and Julia’s relationship
love=”simple and undifferentiated desire” that could “tear the party to pieces”
- “political act”
- “blow against the party”
- “climax a victory”
Quotes to descrive Julia and her Italian boyfriends relationship
- ‘the Italian boyfriend” “was her ticket out”
- “no private sphere left at all”
- “surveillance intensity” that became “overt”
- “GDR logic”
- “under observation”
Quotes that describe Sanity V Reality for Stasiland
-“trod this line between seeing things for what they were and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane”
-Julias dad lived with “unspoken hostility but toward compliance toward the state”
-“stay sane”
_“depressing people lived shorter lives”
Quotes that describe Sanity V Reality for 1984
-“self hypnosis” on the two minute hate as an act of “deliberate drowning of consciousness”
“War os peace”
“Freedom is slavery”
“there was never any evidence”
