1984 quotes

Question 1

Idea: Doublethink
Quotes (2)
Language techniques + purpose
Relate to the outer world

Answer 1

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”

• juxtaposition -party is contradictory
• repetition -makes slogan stick, re-enforces the ideas

““Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”

• repetition -makes it stick, emphasis on the word ‘control’
• Paradox -a form of juxtaposition that provides insight and forethought -contradictory but makes sense
• bandwagon effect
• not questioning what authority and the media tell you
• manipulation to give the allusion of freedom

Question 2

Idea: Power
Quotes (2)
Language techniques
Relate to the outer world

Answer 2

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to safeguard the dictatorship.”

• Idiom “It’s a means to an end” -power usually has a purpose not the end goal
• sentence structure -creates rhythm -draws the reader in

“It [the hate song] had a savage, barking rhythm which could not exactly be called music, but resembled the beating of a drum. Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying.”

• imagery -paints a picture of pure anger
• metaphor -‘barking’ shows the anger
• Warning to Society
• Danger of not questioning authority
• Trump ‘making America great again’
• blinding us from reality

Question 3

Scene: Having Lunch with Syme
Quote (1)
Language Techniques
Relate to the outer world

Answer 3

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”

• Metaphor -‘destruction’ paints the image of tearing apart vocabulary
• irony - the beauty of destruction
• trump creates a language of aggressive, post-literate nature eg. ‘nasty women’, ‘grab her by the p*ssy’
• the language of resistance to this does not exist

Question 4

Scene: Room 101
Quote (1)
Language techniques
Relate to the outer world

Answer 4

“There will be no loyalty, except loyalty to the party.
There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother.
There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph.”

• Repetition -there will be no ___ except ___ -stern, like an old-fashioned parent speaking down to their child -makes Winston seem foolish
• Rhythm -compound sentences create a rhythm/flow -sticks in the mind and makes us think
• Makes us hate the party
• Trump is obsessed with loyalty “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.” -fires people with different view points
• shows the extent that a need for power can drive people to