1984 Textual Quotations Flashcards

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The politics of Julia and Winston

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‘Their embrace had been a battle, their climax a victory’

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2
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A shift in their relationship

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‘ruinous church’; ‘sanctuary’

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3
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Purpose of the coral

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‘I don’t think it was ever put to use. That’s what I like about it’; ‘The paperweight was the room.’

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4
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Julia’s rebllion

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‘you’re only a rebel from the waist down.’

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5
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Everyone has sex

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‘scores of times’

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6
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Winston with the prostitute

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‘a feeling of defeat and resentment’

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7
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An orgy?

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‘The Hate rose to its climax’

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8
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Winston’s violence

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‘I wanted to rape you’

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9
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Women = love

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‘mother’s protective embrace’

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10
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The Proles

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‘if there was hope, it lay in the proles’; ‘oozing sex’

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11
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Julia’s identity

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‘I’m going to be a woman, not a Party comrade’

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12
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Winston’s philosophy

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His ‘important axiom’ is that ‘2+2=4’, not 5

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13
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What is most important to the Party?

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‘the mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc’

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14
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What does Winston really want?

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‘Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood.’

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15
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Winston and O’Brien

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‘flashing glasses’; ‘tormentor’, ‘protector’

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16
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Winston’s loss of self

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‘In the face of pain there are no heroes’

17
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O’Brien’s gaslighting

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‘truth’ ‘you are mentally deranged’

18
Q

1984 religious hysteria

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‘heretic’, ‘uttering a prayer’

19
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Class divide

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‘uninterested contempt for the upper classes’

20
Q

Never-ending class cycle

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‘gangsters and murderers formed a sort of aristocracy’

21
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Never-ending power

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‘Imagine a boot stamping on a face - for ever’

22
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Mixing physical and psychological

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‘weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue’