1984 Quotes Flashcards
Seriality 1/3 - quote about what the party does before killing citizens who didn’t follow the party’s orders:
“But before death there was the routine of confession”
Seriality 2/3 - quote about the behaviour of the workers for the party
“Beyond, above, below were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs”
Seriality 3/3 - quote about how the people behave when telescreens give orders
“The orders already issuing from the telescreens, recalling them to their posts, were hardly necessary”
Ideal party members 1/2 - quote describing what a party member must have in order to be seen by the party as perfect
“The right opinions”
Ideal party members 2/2 - quote describing what a party member must have in order to be seen by the party as perfect
“The right instincts”
Winston betrays Julia 1/2 - quote of what Winston says to stop his punishment in room 101
“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”
Winston betrays Julia 2/2 - quote about what Winston can do to make his punishment go away
“One person to whom he could transfer his punishment”
Sex 1/4 - quote about how sexual intercourse was meant to be seen
“Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation”
Sex 2/4 - quote about what the party saw marriage as being for
“Only recognised purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the party”
Sex 3/4 - quote about how sex could be used against the party
“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion”
Sex 4/4 - quote about what the party has done to sexual intercourse
“It’s real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act”
Complicity 1/2 - quote about Winston using the speakwrite for his job of changing records for the party
“Every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink pencil was a deliberate lie”
Complicity 2/2 - quote about what the party does to those who have been vaporised
“Tracking down and deleting from the press, the names of people who had been vaporised”
Loyalty & Betrayal 1/1 - quote about how children were seen by their parents because of what the party had done to them
“Frightened of their own children”
Doublethink 1/3 - quote about what doublethink does to people’s knowledge
“Such knowledge is easily neutralised by the technique of doublethink”
Doublethink 2/3 - quote about what is needed until your memory forgets knowledge and true facts
“All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory”
Doublethink 3/3 - quote about what doublethink places in your mind as memories
“It was a false memory”
Degradation of language 1/3 - quote about what the party is doing to language
“We’re destroying words - scores of them”
Degradation of language 2/3 - quote about what the party has done to words so that they keep the population unaware
“Short clipped words of unmistakeable meaning”
Degradation of language 3/3 - quote about what the new language with reduced words is designed to do
“Roused the minimum of echoes in the speaker’s mind”
Info control, memory and identity 1/6 - quote about what the party wants to do with the past
“The past is whatever the party chooses to make”
Info control, memory and identity 2/6 - quote about destruction of records and your memory
“There existed no record outside your own memory”
Info control, memory and identity 3/6 - quote about how the party can create events, people and facts
“Faked photographs would soon bring him into existence”
Info control, memory and identity 4/6 - quote about maths not being what we think it is
“How do we know that two and two make four”
