1984 Quotations Flashcards
1984 party slogan
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
Telescreen quotes
“even a back can be revealing”
Control Quote
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Dystopian quote
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
False Hope
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
Dystopian Heroes
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
Society
‘nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws’
1984 AO5
Winston rebels against the system, yet virtually invites it to destroy him. S Lonoff
Technology AO5
Technology exists as a tool for stagnation, rather than progress. K. Grossman
Truth quotation
“If the party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened”
What does the future look like in 1984
“If you want a vision of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever”
Orwell’s inspiration for the setting
Post-war austerity in London in the 1940s which provided the model for Orwell’s descriptions of settings for his dystopian society.
However the book’s initial shock value may have diminished somewhat since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The proles
“Is there is hope, it lies in the proles”
Social class inspiration
The class system of 1940s Britain
Orwell’s inspiration for the totalitarian process
Orwell’s inspiration from Stalin’s show trials of the old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.
