1984 Quotes Flashcards
“The electric current was cut off during daylight hours … part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week”
Citizens of Oceania make sacrifices indicative of wartime to the reader
“No way of shutting it off completely”
Omnipresent propaganda msg surveillance
“Overfulfillment in the ninth three year plan”
Stalinist economic plans and falsified/exaggerated statistics
“Audience shouting with laughter when he sank”
Humans stripped of empathy due to brain washing
“It’s was impossible to avoid jumping in… turning… against ones will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic”
Power of mod mentality, just like Teatifying in the Handmaids Tale
“The essential crime which constrained all others within itself”
Thought crime, neologism
“Thought crime is death”
Inevitability of being apprehended and punished by regime
“It was almost normal for people over 30 to be frightened of their own children”
Denunciation; regime is where true loyalty lies; impressionable; Hitler Youth; Cultural revolution
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic cm inside your skull”
Inescapability of Party propaganda
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”
Power of info
“You did not have friends nowadays”
Degradation of social structures ➡️ assert control
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles”
Marxist view (proletariat revolution)
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious”
Fundamental requirement of Marx for rev ➡️ social consciousness but rly ➡️ limited by human psychology
“There had never been quite enough to eat… rooms under heated, houses falling to pieces, tea a rarity”
Consistent poverty and deprivation
“People who had grown up in the world of the revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the party as unalienable, like the sky, not rebelling against authority but simply evading it as a rabbit dodges a dog”
Indoctrination of young; like young girls who are married off in Gilead
