Prelim Essay Flashcards
1984
“The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely”
“By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went”
“Don’t You see newspeak is to limit the range of thought?”
“In the end we will make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”
“Whether he wrote ‘DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER’ or whether he refrained from writing, it made no difference.”
“The thought police would get him just the same”
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull”
“He saw five fingers and there was no deformity”
“He accepted everything”
“He had won the victory over himself. He loved big brother”
“war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”
