Quote Bank Flashcards
clocks were striking
thirteen
Victory
mansions
cigarettes
gin
the telescreen… there was
no way of turning it off completely
only the Thought
Police mattered
no way of knowing
whether you were being watched
every movement
scrutinised
vistas of
rotting nineteenth-century housing
Ministry of
Truth (Minitrue)
Peace (Minipax)
Plenty (Miniplenty)
Love (Miniluv)
gorilla-faced guards
in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons
peculiarly beautiful book…
smooth creamy paper
wonderful shot of
a child’s arm going up up up
all the time covering up as if she thought
her arms could keep the bullets off him
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
he had also been writing,
as though by automatic action
people simply disappeared…
vaporised was the usual word