Quotes about authoritarian regime Flashcards
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.
Maxim/Irony. It perfectly depicts the regime of the party
Victory gin victory mansion victory cigarettes
List of products produced by the party. Induces a sense of grandeur through the diction of victory but in fact are pathetic.
The hallways smelt of boiled cabbage an old rag mats
Cabbages are very easy to grow and have connotations with communism.
Be punished by death or at least by 25 years in a forced labour camps
Description. Shows the brutal nature of an authoritarian regime
The ministry of truth which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine art.
The minister of peace, which concerned itself with war.
The Ministry of love, which maintain law and order.
The ministry of plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.
Irony. The name of the ministry do the opposite of what the name implies
He was the primal traitor the earliest filer of the parties purity. All subsequent crimes against the party all treacheries acts of sabotage heresies deviation sprang directly out of his teaching.
The commonality of authoritarian regimes is the the presence of a common enemy. The irony of which is if in case Goldstein is a reference to Trotsky, he too used to be a communist.
Advocating freedom of speech freedom of the press freedom of assembly freedom of thought.
The irony roots from the fact that these are common leisures that all people should have. Yet in Oceania, it is absurd and wrong to advocate these things. A warning to the readers
The thought police would get him just the same he had committed would still have committed even if you never said pen to paper the essential crime that contain all others in itself thought crime they called it.
Introduction to thought crime. A seemingly stupid law to enforce
Your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten you were abolished annihilated vaporised was the usual word.
Shows how people are punished in this world
you’re a traitor you’re the boy you’re a thought criminal you’re a Eurasian spy I’ll vaporise you I’ll send you to the salt mines
Anaphora. Repetition of you’re a and I’ll. This is characterisation through speech. It is quite fearsome. A child is saying this.
Even from the coins the eyes proceed with you on coins and stamps on the covers of books and banners and posters I’m on the wrapping of a cigarette packet everywhere always the eyes are watching you and the voice envelope and you asleep or awake working or eating indoors or outdoors in Bath or in bed no escape nothing was your own except a few cubic centimetres inside your skull
Description of the regime and reach of the party’s power.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: Thoughtcrime is death.
A truism. Allows readers to understand the absolution of thought crime
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness
truism/paradox
The party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself
A unique idea as it suggests that different to the likes of monarchies, the bloodline does not matter
