Pessimism quotes

Question 1

Surveillance

Answer 1

• ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’
• ‘Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen… even a back can be revealing’
• ‘the habit what became instinct - the assumption that every sound you made was overheard’
• ‘every movement scrutinised’

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

• ‘the hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats’ ‘Victory Mansions’
• ‘skin roughened by… blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended’
• ‘sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses’
• ‘rotting nineteenth-century houses’