Human Nature

Question 1

1984 - self preservation.

Answer 1

Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’

Question 2

1984 - sex and rebellion

Answer 2

The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion.

Question 3

1984 - inside you

Answer 3

They can’t get inside of you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.

Question 4

THMT -passive power

Answer 4

I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there.

Question 5

1984 - fantasies

Answer 5

Vivid, beautiful hallucinations … He would ravish her [Julia] and cut her throat at the moment of climax.

Question 6

1984 - Julia’s character

Answer 6

…she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life.

Question 7

1984 -

Answer 7

‘On the whole I’m sorry I didn’t.’ [push Katharine off a cliff]

Question 8

THMT - touch

Answer 8

I hunger to commit the act of touch.

Question 9

THMT - Moira’s power

Answer 9

Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.

Question 10

THMT - Class

Answer 10

The Econowives do not like us.

Question 11

THMT - treatment of Janine

Answer 11

For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her [Janine], we despised her.

Question 12

THMT - memories of Luke

Answer 12

And he [Luke] was, the loved. One. Is, I say. Is, is, only two letters, you stupid shit, can’t you manage to remember it…?

Question 13

THMT - Heaven and hell

Answer 13

You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need you for that. Hell we can make ourselves.

Question 14

THMT -Woman’s culture

Answer 14

You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies

Question 15

THMT - Nature’s norm

Answer 15

Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking… Just a fluke. All we’ve done is return things to Nature’s norm.

Question 16

1984 - violence

Answer 16

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current

Question 17

THMT -civilisation

Answer 17

I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilised. I wish it showed me in a better light.

Question 18

1984 - O’Brien’s appearance

Answer 18

…he [O’Brien] had the appearance of being a person that you could talk to if somehow you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone.

Question 19

1984 - being a man

Answer 19

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.’

Question 20

THMT - replaceable

Answer 20

If your dog dies, get another

Question 21

THMT - end result of striving for Utopia

Answer 21

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse for some.