1984 + THT Quotations Flashcards
Control of History / Future
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”
Slogan Antitheses
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”
Doublethink definition
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously”
Big Brother, what’s he doing?!
“Big Brother is watching you”
Popular uprising as the only opportunity for revolution
“If there is hope it lies in the proles”
The extent of obliviousness
“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness”
Everything is possession of the state except…
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull”
“It was a pleasure to burn” parallel.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”
Aunt Lydia on the ubiquitous presence of ‘Gilead’ and its parasitic nature
“The Republic of Gilead knows no bounds. Gilead is within you”
Micro freedoms in a meta prison. Rats.
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays in the maze”
Warped moral / social codes for the Handmaids, traditional conduct.
“Modesty is invisibility”
Pregnancy is paramount, the highest priority.
“Give me children, or else I die”
Identity, patronym, resistance.
“My name isn’t Offred, I have another name”
School girls and partners, homogenisation
“This woman has been my partner for two weeks”
Offred has diminished, loss of motherhood has eroded her self worth.
“A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become”
