1984 Quotes

Question 1

Seriality 1/3 - quote about what the party does before killing citizens who didn’t follow the party’s orders:

Answer 1

“But before death there was the routine of confession”

Question 2

Seriality 2/3 - quote about the behaviour of the workers for the party

Answer 2

“Beyond, above, below were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs”

Question 3

Seriality 3/3 - quote about how the people behave when telescreens give orders

Answer 3

“The orders already issuing from the telescreens, recalling them to their posts, were hardly necessary”

Question 4

Ideal party members 1/2 - quote describing what a party member must have in order to be seen by the party as perfect

Answer 4

“The right opinions”

Question 5

Ideal party members 2/2 - quote describing what a party member must have in order to be seen by the party as perfect

Answer 5

“The right instincts”

Question 6

Winston betrays Julia 1/2 - quote of what Winston says to stop his punishment in room 101

Answer 6

“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”

Question 7

Winston betrays Julia 2/2 - quote about what Winston can do to make his punishment go away

Answer 7

“One person to whom he could transfer his punishment”

Question 8

Sex 1/4 - quote about how sexual intercourse was meant to be seen

Answer 8

“Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation”

Question 9

Sex 2/4 - quote about what the party saw marriage as being for

Answer 9

“Only recognised purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the party”

Question 10

Sex 3/4 - quote about how sex could be used against the party

Answer 10

“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion”

Question 11

Sex 4/4 - quote about what the party has done to sexual intercourse

Answer 11

“It’s real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act”

Question 12

Complicity 1/2 - quote about Winston using the speakwrite for his job of changing records for the party

Answer 12

“Every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink pencil was a deliberate lie”

Question 13

Complicity 2/2 - quote about what the party does to those who have been vaporised

Answer 13

“Tracking down and deleting from the press, the names of people who had been vaporised”

Question 14

Loyalty & Betrayal 1/1 - quote about how children were seen by their parents because of what the party had done to them

Answer 14

“Frightened of their own children”

Question 15

Doublethink 1/3 - quote about what doublethink does to people’s knowledge

Answer 15

“Such knowledge is easily neutralised by the technique of doublethink”

Question 16

Doublethink 2/3 - quote about what is needed until your memory forgets knowledge and true facts

Answer 16

“All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory”

Question 17

Doublethink 3/3 - quote about what doublethink places in your mind as memories

Answer 17

“It was a false memory”

Question 18

Degradation of language 1/3 - quote about what the party is doing to language

Answer 18

“We’re destroying words - scores of them”

Question 19

Degradation of language 2/3 - quote about what the party has done to words so that they keep the population unaware

Answer 19

“Short clipped words of unmistakeable meaning”

Question 20

Degradation of language 3/3 - quote about what the new language with reduced words is designed to do

Answer 20

“Roused the minimum of echoes in the speaker’s mind”

Question 21

Info control, memory and identity 1/6 - quote about what the party wants to do with the past

Answer 21

“The past is whatever the party chooses to make”

Question 22

Info control, memory and identity 2/6 - quote about destruction of records and your memory

Answer 22

“There existed no record outside your own memory”

Question 23

Info control, memory and identity 3/6 - quote about how the party can create events, people and facts

Answer 23

“Faked photographs would soon bring him into existence”

Question 24

Info control, memory and identity 4/6 - quote about maths not being what we think it is

Answer 24

“How do we know that two and two make four”

Question 25

Info control, memory and identity 5/6 - quote about lack of evidence to back up your own memories and beliefs

Answer 25

“You could prove nothing. There was never any evidence”

Question 26

Info control, memory and identity 6/6 - quote about eventual submission to the party

Answer 26

“There’s nothing I wouldn’t confess”

Question 27

Power of big brother and the party 1/3 - quote about what the party does to people before they kill them

Answer 27

“Die while the minds are still clean”

Question 28

Power of big brother and the party 2/3 - quote about how the party makes you take part in activities designed to break you down

Answer 28

“Impossible to avoid joining in”

Question 29

Power of big brother and the party 3/3 - quote about how the party maintains control over information and memories

Answer 29

“Hierarchical society was only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance”