'1984' AO5 quotes Flashcards
JEMask and mislead
Jem Berkes (2000)
–> Power of language
“language has the power in politics to mask the truth and mislead the public”
JEMind-control
Jem Berkes (2000)
mind-control tool
“language becomes a mind-control tool, with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination”
Berkescontrol
Jem Berkes (2000)
–> language not as a weapon but as a means of…
“psychological control of the public”
Jem Berkes (2000)
–> media manipulation of the population
“slaves of the media” (Berkes, 2000)
George Orwell, complete works XII (1940)
“Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorship”
Kristoffer Rissanen - hate
“The Party uses hate to keep itself in power”
Kika
Children
“Children are essentially used to break up the family unit” (Kika)
Forsterganda
E.M. Forster
‘Big Brother also lurks behind Churchill and any leader whom propaganda utilises or invents’
Thophamgraded
James Topham - language
‘Language is degraded to such an extent that it only serves the government’
Margaret Atwood on the appendix on Newspeak
‘The essay on Newspeak is written in standard English… in the past tense, which can only mean that the regime has fallen, and that language and individuality have survived.’
Derryalleable
Derry - language
‘Orwell himself noticed the malleability of human ideals through language’
Meyers - about the past
Orwell “looked back in time as much as he looked forward” (Meyers)
Brownie thinking
Brown (2010)
“Through Winston Smith, Orwell shows how the ability of the individual to think freely in a society that attempts absolute control is empowering”
Padenveillance
Paden (1984)
“There is little surveillance” (Paden, 1984)
Control & Power
Ismail (2020)
“The Party controls everything; it has the power and all power”
