COMMON MOD - 1984 Flashcards
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
- Official Party Slogan -
“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. “
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
- Syme, Part 1 Chapter 5-
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
- Syme, Part 1 Chapter 5 -
“Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
- Appendix: ‘The Principles of Newspeak’ -
“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the…devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.”
MEMORY
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 3 -
“Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.”
MEMORY
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 2 -
“The past was dead; the future was unimaginable.”
MEMORY
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 3 -
“There was no knowing how much of this legend was true and how much invented.”
MEMORY
- O’Brien, Part 3 Chapter 2 -
“You are mentally deranged. You suffer from a defective memory. You are unable to remember real events and you persuade yourself that you remember other events which never happened.”
LONELINESS
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 1 -
“There was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air.”
LONELINESS
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 3 -
“He must, he thought, have been 10 or 11 years old when his mother disappeared.”
LONELINESS
- Winston, Part 2 Chapter 1 -
“The idea of refusing her advances even cross his mind.”
LONELINESS
- Winston, Part 3 Chapter 2 -
“The old feeling, that at the bottom did not matter whether O’Brien was a friend or an enemy, had come back. O’Brien was a person who could be talk to. Perhaps one did not want to be love so much is to be understood.”
RELATIONSHIPS
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 2 -
“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
RELATIONSHIPS
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 2 -
“It was somehow slightly frightening like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up to be man eaters.”
RELATIONSHIPS
- Parsons, Part 3 Chapter 1 -
“In fact, I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.”-said in “doleful pride”
RELATIONSHIPS
- O’Brien, Part 3 Chapter 3 -
“No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.”
TECHNOLOGY
- Winston, Part 1 Chapter 1 -
“The instrument (the Telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”
SYMBOLS
- Diary -
“To the future or to the past to time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone.”
SYMBOLS
- Glass Paperweight -
“Fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal”
“Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces…”
SYMBOLS
- Big Brother -
“Big brother is watching you”
SYMBOLS
- 2+2 = 5 -
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four”
FORM
- Satire -
“Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. “
FORM
- Dystopian Genre -
“Were there always these vistas of rotting 19th century houses, the sides shored up with baulks of timber…… And the bombed sites where the plaster dust world in the air and the willow-herb straggled over there heaps of rubble…”
STRUCTURE
- Narrative Perspective-
“Already! He sat as still as mouse… The worst thing of all would be to delay… His heart was thumping like a drum…”
STRUCTURE
- Flashbacks -
“Tragedy, he perceived, belong to the ancient time, to a time where there was still privacy, love and friendship… His mother’s memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him.”
