1984 Textual Quotations Flashcards
The politics of Julia and Winston
‘Their embrace had been a battle, their climax a victory’
A shift in their relationship
‘ruinous church’; ‘sanctuary’
Purpose of the coral
‘I don’t think it was ever put to use. That’s what I like about it’; ‘The paperweight was the room.’
Julia’s rebllion
‘you’re only a rebel from the waist down.’
Everyone has sex
‘scores of times’
Winston with the prostitute
‘a feeling of defeat and resentment’
An orgy?
‘The Hate rose to its climax’
Winston’s violence
‘I wanted to rape you’
Women = love
‘mother’s protective embrace’
The Proles
‘if there was hope, it lay in the proles’; ‘oozing sex’
Julia’s identity
‘I’m going to be a woman, not a Party comrade’
Winston’s philosophy
His ‘important axiom’ is that ‘2+2=4’, not 5
What is most important to the Party?
‘the mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc’
What does Winston really want?
‘Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood.’
Winston and O’Brien
‘flashing glasses’; ‘tormentor’, ‘protector’
Winston’s loss of self
‘In the face of pain there are no heroes’
O’Brien’s gaslighting
‘truth’ ‘you are mentally deranged’
1984 religious hysteria
‘heretic’, ‘uttering a prayer’
Class divide
‘uninterested contempt for the upper classes’
Never-ending class cycle
‘gangsters and murderers formed a sort of aristocracy’
Never-ending power
‘Imagine a boot stamping on a face - for ever’
Mixing physical and psychological
‘weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue’
