Quotes about Winston Flashcards
Winston who was thirty nine and had a varicose ulcer
Characterisation of Winston through description
To mark the paper was the decisive act.
Characterisation through action. Here Winston makes the decision to become a though-criminal. This is what starts it all.
Then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone through his bowels.
Here it may show Winston’s initial fears of committing thought-crime. Characterisation through action
Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary against Big Brother, the party and the thought police
Characterisation through action. Readers learn that Winston hates the regime, showing unorthodoxy.
He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax.
Characterisation through description. Orwell depicts what could happen to a man in a society where everything is centred around hatred, a warning to the readers.
To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing was an instinctive reaction
Characterisation through action. Here Orwell offers readers insight to what could happen to humanity, blindly following the majority, another warning to the readers.
But there was a fraction of a second when their eyes met, and for as long as it took to happen Winston knew - yes, he knew! that O’Brien was thinking the same thing as himself.
Characterisation through action. Winston sees the eyes of O’Brien and believes that he too is not an advocate of the party.
Now that he had recognise himself as a deadman in the kitchen quarter to stay alive as long as possible
Characterisation. Allows readers to understand Winston’s fate
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows
Winston’s quote about freedom
