1984 text quotations Flashcards
‘BIG
BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’RE
‘there seemed to be…
no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere’
‘In the assumption that…
every sound you made was overheard’
‘WAR IS…
PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’
‘Gorilla-faced guards…
in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons’
‘lost the…
power of expressing himself’
‘Wonderful shot…
of a child’s arm going up up up’
‘through the…
whole group of people like an electric current’
Children in 1984
‘You’re a traitor’
‘You’re a thought criminal!’
‘Uniform of the spies’
‘Winston was…
dreaming of his mother’
‘Swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties’
‘Today there were…
fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion’
‘Every year..
fewer words, and the range of consciousness, always a little smaller’
‘If there is hope…
it lies in the proles’
‘the proles…
were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals’
