‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ Quotes Flashcards
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Syme of Newspeak
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“ The whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought… In the end, we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”
2
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Party Slogan about History
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“ Who controls the present controls the past”
3
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‘facecrime’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“to wear an improper expression on your face … was itself a punishable offence”
4
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Winston on orthodoxy
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“orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness”
5
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Winston on the proles
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‘if there is hope…it lies in the proles’, ‘the swarming disregarded masses’ who could ‘become conscious’ and rebel,
