Indoctrination quotes

Question 1

Youth

Answer 1

• young guardians
• ‘The young ones are the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns’
• Parson’s children
• ‘glorious game’
• ‘ungovernable little savages’ and ‘no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party’

Question 2

Power of indoctrination

Answer 2

• Janine
• ‘almost proud’ in telling of sexual history and ‘example’ for admitting ‘it was my own fault’
• ‘clump of blond hair’
• the tourists ‘It has taken so little time to change our minds’
• ‘spiked feet’ ‘thrusting… buttocks’ and high heels are ‘delicate instruments of torture’
• O’Brien
• Winston ultimately indoctrinated and rebellion extinguished
• ‘He loved Big Brother’

Question 3

Violence/threat as a means to inculcate

Answer 3

• The Eyes
• ‘if there are sounds coming from inside them, we try not to hear them’
• bodies on the wall
• Partisicution
• ‘want to tear, gouge, rend’
• Ministry of Love
• Thoughtpolice
• vapourising - Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford
• ‘abolished, annihilated: vaporised was the usual word’
• ‘Why can’t we go and see the hanging?’

Question 4

Verbal indoctrination

Answer 4

• prescribed greetings
• Testifying and ridiculing Janine
• ‘Her fault, her fault, her fault’
• The Red Centre and Aunts
• ‘They also serve who stand and wait’
• ‘Lets pretend we are trees’
• ‘mole’
• Newspeak
• 2 Minutes Hate
• rage ‘could be switched from one an object to another like the flame of a blowlamp’

Question 5

Enforced participation

Answer 5

• Testifying
• ‘weak, squirmy, blotchy, pink like a newborn mouse’ ‘Crybaby’ ‘we meant it, which is the bad part’
• Partesicution
• Salvaging
• 2 Minutes Hate

Question 6

Presentation of the past

Answer 6

• ‘freedom to and freedom from’ Aunt Lydia
• freedom but with risk ‘don’t go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night’
• ‘my own clothes, my own soap, my own money I had earned myself’
• contrast to Winston’s view of past
• ‘“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”’

Question 7

Limits of indoctrination

Answer 7

• Offred and Nick’s r/ship
• Ofglen and Moira
• meets Moira in bathroom making O ‘ridiculously happy’ and says everyone knows ‘everyone except the Aunts’
• Offred’s cynical narrative voice and retention of individuality despite outward conformity
• ‘I can feel her shoes on my own feet. The smell of nail polish has made me hungry’
• ‘pretending I am a tree’
• Winston and Julia
• initially limited in 1984