'1984'- Quotes

Question 1

Complete the quotation from Chapter 1…
“A desire to (1)_____, to torture, to smash faces in with a (2)_____________ , seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an (3)________ current.”

Answer 1

1) Kill
2) sledge-hammer
3) electric

Describes the atmosphere during the two minutes hate.

Question 2

When is this quotation from in the novel and who is it about?
“He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows…he would ravish her and cut her throat at climax.”

Answer 2

Taken from Ch1, pg. 18.

Description of what Winston fantasises about doing to Julia.

Question 3

Why is this quotation from the Parsons’ boy significant?

“I’ll shoot you! I’ll vaporise you, I’ll send you to the salt mines!”- Ch2, pg. 27.

Answer 3

• It shows how the young generation of Oceania are being trained in violence, surveillance and duty to the party.
• Contextual link to Hitler youth.
• No safety for parents or families.

Question 4

“Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me.”

Who says this quotation and where is it taken from in the novel? What does it say about the regime?

Answer 4

• Said by an old, tortured man in the prison cell when he is about to be taken to Room 101; Part 3, ch1, pg. 271.
• The man is desperate not to go to room 101, he would rather death, which shows the severity of the torture that he knows he will endure there. It also shows that the regime is merciless, he offers to give up his wife and children in exchange for not going to room 101.

Question 5

Complete the description of the surrounding of the ‘Ministry of love’…

“Barbed wire (1)___________, steel doors and hidden (2)_______ ____ nets.”

Answer 5

1) entanglements

2) Machine gun

Question 6

Complete the following quotation. What does it suggest about the setting of the novel?

“Though the sun was (1)________and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be (2)___ _______ in anything, except the posters.”- Ch1, pg. 4.

Answer 6

1) Shining
2) no colour

• This suggests that there is hopelessness in the society and the party only shows hope through its propaganda; they want citizens to believe that Big Brother is the only source of hope.

Question 7

“You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct.”- Ch1, pg. 5.

What dystopian convention does this quotation link with and how?

Answer 7

-The quote links to the dystopian idea of personal survival and just living day by day. It is common for dystopian protagonists to do what will keep them alive and this quote supports the idea that victims of dystopian societies live each day for the sake of living.

Question 8

“By means of such organisations as the spies, they were systematically turned into governable little savages.”- Ch2, pg. 29.

Who is this quote about?
What does this suggest about the aims of the party?

Answer 8

• The quote is about the generation of children being brought up under the totalitarian regime, such as the parsons’ children, who have a keen interest in all party activities such as spying.
• It suggests that the party aims to control a whole new generation, once the older generation are gone, the population will only ever remember the power of the party.

Question 9

Complete the following quotation…

“Nothing was your (1)____ except the few cubic centimetres inside your (2)______.”- Ch2, pg. 32.

Answer 9

1) Own

2) Skull

Question 10

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”- Ch4, pg. 47.

How does this link to the context for the novel?

Answer 10

• This ‘mutability of history’ links with Stalin’s censorship during his time in power in soviet Russia.

Question 11

Complete the quotation…

“History has (1)________. Nothing exists now except an (2) _________ _________ in which the party is always right.”- Winston, Part2, ch5, pg. 178.

Answer 11

1) Stopped

2) Endless present

Question 12

“Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” - pg. 60.

Who says this quote and why is it importnat to the novel? What does it say about the party’s aim?

Answer 12

• Syme says this quote
• It is important because it shows the oppression of thought and feeling in the regime.
• The party aim to eradicate any thought or expression in the society as a whole as a way to gain power over people’s minds.

Question 13

Pg. 46, Winston’s Job is described as a…

“Process of continuous_______”

a) Correction
b) Alteration
c) Adaption

Answer 13

Answer:

b) Alteration

Question 14

Complete the quotation:

“Everything faded away into a (1)________ ______ in which, finally, even the date of the year had become (2) _______.- Pg. 48.

Answer 14

1) Shadow world

2) Uncertain

Question 15

Complete the quotation:

“The whole (1) _______ of thought will be (2) _________.

Answer 15

1) Climate

2) Different

Question 16

“Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”- Syme, pg. 60.

After this comment, Winston predicts that Syme will one day be vaporised. Why might he think this?

Answer 16

• “Syme will be vaporised. He is too intelligent.”
• The party do not like intelligent people that know too much for their own good, they want an ignorant population but Syme is far from it. He is enthusiastic about the party and Newspeak but also talks too much about why these things are going on.

Question 17

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” - O’Brien, pg. 307.

This is a key quotation- What does it suggets about the purpose of the party and its motives?

Answer 17

• Here, through the character of O’Brien, Orwell clarifiies his vision of a totalitarian state.
• It suggests that power is an end in itself and that party bureaucracy is motivated to augment its power over the masses.
• To retain its power, the party uses terror, torture and arbitrary murder- once it can control thought and behaviour then it can be assured that it will rule indefinitely without opposition.

Question 18

Complete the quotation:

“it was terribly (1) _________ to let your (2) _______ wander when you were in any public place or within range of a (3) ________.”- pg. 71.

Answer 18

1) Dangerous
2) Thoughts
3) Telescreen

Question 19

“The only recognised purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the party.”- pg. 75.

How does this link to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?

Answer 19

Sex in 1984 is only encouraged for reproductive purposes, alike to the regime of Gilead where the Handmaids are only permitted to fornicate with their commanders for reproduction.

Question 20

“The party was trying to kill the (1) _____ ________, or, if it could not be killed, then to (2) _________ it and dirty it.”- pg. 76.

Answer 20

1) Sex instinct

2) Distort

Question 21

Complete the quotation:

“The party taught that (1) __________ were natural (2) ________ who must be kept in subjection, like (3) ________.

Answer 21

1) The proles
2) Inferiors
3) Animals

Question 22

“In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her.”- Winston’s thoughts on Julia, pg. 122.

What does this quote suggest about Winston’s humanity, how does it differ from the dystopian convention and how can it link to HMT

Answer 22

• This quote shows that despite the hostile environment that the party have created, Winston still possesses human emotion to help others. His morality is conflicted but then takes over as he goes to help Julia.
• It differs from the dystopian convention of personal survival because he interracts with Julia and this alone is a risk.
• The idea links to HMT when Offred empathises with the accused guardian at the salvaging and holds back her violence; her humanity takes over here.

Question 23

Complete the quotation:

” Her youth and (1) ________ had frightened him, he was too used to (2) _________ ________ women.”- pg. 138.

Answer 23

1) Prettiness

2) Living without

Question 24

Complete the quotation:

“No (1) _________ was pure, because everything was mixed up with (2)_______ and (3) _______.”- pg. 145.

Answer 24

1) Emotion
2) Fear
3) Hatred

Question 25

“The theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled.”

How does this quote link to HMT?

Answer 25

• Link to commanders going to jezebels

- Young guards looking at the handmaids

Question 26

Complete the quotation:

“The (1) ________ of life had ceased to be (2) _______.”- pg. 172.

Answer 26

1) Process

2) Intolerable

Question 27

Complete the quotation:

” She only questioned the (1) _________ of the party when they in some way touched upon (2) _______ ______ _______.”- pg. 176.

Answer 27

1) Teachings

2) Her own life

Question 28

“You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards.”- Winston to Julia, pg. 179.

What is Winston trying to say about Julia in this quotation?

Answer 28

• Winston realises here that Julia’s youth causes her to lack substance, she has no interest in politics but instead rebels sexually.

Question 29

“They can make you say anything- anything- but they can’t make you belove it. They can’t get inside you.”- pg. 192.

Who says this quote?

Answer 29

Julia to Winston

Question 30

Complete the quotation:

“No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is (1) _________ _______.”- O’Brien, pg. 292.

Answer 30

1) Washed clean

Question 31

Complete the quotation:

“You will be (1) ______. We shall squeeze you (2) _______ , and then we shall fill you with (3) __________.”- O’Brien, pg. 293.

Answer 31

1) Hollow
2) Empty
3) Ourselves

Question 32

“The German Nazis and the Russian communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognise their own motives.”- O’Brien, pg. 302.

How does this quote link to Orwell’s message and contextual influences?

Answer 32

• Orwell’s party was influenced by communist Russia and nazi Germany, he refernces them explicitly in this quotation.
• It ca also be considered as warning that these mistakes have been made in the past and so could potentially occur again with more severity.

Question 33

Complete the quotation:

“Power is in tearing human (1) _______ to pieces and putting them together again in (2) _____ ________ of your own choosing.”- O’Brien- pg. 306.

Answer 33

1) Minds

2) New shapes

Question 34

Complete the quotation:

“[Our civilisation] is founded upon (1) _______. In our world there will no emotions except (2)______, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall (3) ________- everything.”- O’Brien, pg. 306.

Answer 34

1) Hatred
2) Fear
3) Destroy

Question 35

“In the future there will be no wives and no friends.”- O’Brien, pg. 306.

How does this quotation link to the regime of Gilead?

Answer 35

Gilead restricts relationships between all kinds of people. The handmaids can barely communicate with each other, the commanders or the guardians. Although wives still exist, intimacy is eradicated and sex is solely for the handmaid to reproduce- marriage is basically pointless.

Question 36

Complete the quotation:

“The sex (1) ________ will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual (2) _______ like the renewal of a ration card.”- O’Brien- pg, 306.

Answer 36

1) Instinct
2) Formailty

This quote links with Gilead and the ‘ceremonies’ of formal procreation.

Question 37

Complete the quotation:

“‘If there is (1)_________ ‘, wrote Winston, ‘it lies in the (2)__________’.”

Answer 37

1) Hope

2) Proles

Question 38

Complete the quotation:

“Freedom is the (1)____________ to say that two plus two make four.”

Answer 38

1) Freedom

Question 39

Complete O’Brien’s quote to Winston:

“If you want a picture of the (1)__________, imagine a boot stamping on a (2)______________ ________ - forever.”

Answer 39

1) Future

2) Human face