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’
‘Proles and animals…
are free.’
‘Freedom is the…
freedom to say that two plus two make four.’
‘They remembered…
a million useless things’
‘Already he had instinctively…
started forward to help her’
‘At the sight of the words…
“I love you” the desire to stay alive welled up in him.’
‘Whichever way you…
turned, the telescreen faced you.’
‘The g…
olden country’
‘the glass…
paperweight’
‘Someone had picked… up the
up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces’
‘He had won the victory…
over himself. He loved Big Brother.’
