Quotations - 1984, Children Flashcards
Comparing children to animals
“ Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal”
Children - named a savage (at such a young age (9) - and his little sister copying him)
“ Up with your hands!” Yelled a savage voice. A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine. His small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood.
Mrs Parsons thinking the children would have a spanner - and the hesitation she had for asking them
“A spanner”, said Mrs Parsons “ Perhaps the children - “
Mrs Parsons being scared of her own children
“The look of helpless fright of the women’s greyish face”
Children’s betrayal of their parents - brainwashed - tools of the party
“ denounced his parents to the Thought Police”
Description of children coming down the stairs and into the room
“There was a trampling of boots and another blast on the comb as the children charged into the living-room”
Children accusing people - random outburst
“You’re a traitor! Yelled the boy. You’re a thought criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you; I’ll vaporise you, I’ll send you to the salt minds!”
Shocking for a young child to know the meanings of such words + shout them - especially without repercussions as mother is scared of them
Imagery of children growing up
“It was somehow frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man- eaters”
Children wanting to see the hanging - horrific
“They’re disappointed because they couldn’t go see the hanging”
Children being portrayed as beasts + horrible little spies / tools
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible”
Children being reported constantly reporting their parents to the TP
“Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not catty a paragraph describing how some eves dropping little sneak - ‘child hero’ was the phrase generally used - had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police.”
Children being tools
Children ruling parents
Parents being scared of their children
