1984 - Collectivism Quotes

Question 1

People were

Answer 1

leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen

Question 2

A hideous ecstasy

Answer 2

of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing screaming lunatic

Question 3

At this moment

Answer 3

the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of ‘B-B!… B-B!… B-B!’ - over and over again

Question 4

Both of them were dressed

Answer 4

in the blue shorts, grey shirts and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies

Question 5

The telescreen… clashed

Answer 5

into Oceania, ‘tis for thee’. You were supposed to stand to attention