Rebellion quotes

Question 1

The Commander

Answer 1

• ‘If my life is bearable, maybe what they’re doing is all right after all’
• hypocritical - absolve himself of wrongdoing by helping her with meetings that endanger her
• ‘He’s breaking the rules under their noses, thumbing his nose at them, getting away with it’ (Jezebel’s)
• ‘He watched me smoothing it over his hands and then my face with that same air of looking in through the bars’

Question 2

Serena Joy

Answer 2

• ‘like a business transaction’
• ‘But what did I have, to trade?’ (smokes cigarettes)
• her garden
• ‘the domain of the Commander’s wife’
• ‘pointing with her stick’

Question 3

Moira

Answer 3

• ‘Moira had power now’ ‘Moira was our fantasy’

Question 4

Ofglen

Answer 4

• ‘You were always so stinking pious’
• Partesicution

Question 5

Winston

Answer 5

• ‘smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age’
• ‘suddenly he began writing in sheer panic’
• ‘If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles’
• ‘The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal’
• ‘The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk’
• ‘they were loyal to one another… The proles had stayed human’
• ‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them’