1984 Part 2 quotes

"always yell with the crowd, that's what I say

It's the only way to be safe"

- Julia's advice

"She was

'not clever'"

- hiding herself

- smart enough to break rules without being caught

"she hated

the party"

"with Julia, everything

came back to her own sexuality"

"some kinds of failures are better

that other kinds, that's all

- Julia has a long term understanding of the Party and their regimes

- smarter than Winston

"We are the dead' he said.

'We're not dead yet' said Julia prosaically"

"he wished above all that they had some place where they could be alone together...

without feeling the obligation to make love every time they met"

"the paperweight was the room he was in,

and the coral was Julia's life and his own"

- doublethink, knows they are doomed - yet allows himself to be romantic

- pairing him with her (for safety)

"in reality

there was no escape"

"spinning out a present

that had no future"

"it would always exist,

and it would always be the same"

(talking about the party)

"the rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself,

'just to keep people frightened"

"I'm not interested in the next generation, dear.

I'm interested in us"

- she lives in the present

- she knows she is not powerful and smart enough to know it, Winston is stupid to think he has power

'you're only a rebel

from the waist downwards"

- patronising, neglecting her brain

- but she takes it as a compliment, links to her sexuality

"Julia was more

than just an affair"

- better at survival

- more intelligent and good at doublethink

"the last step was something that would happen

in the ministry of love"

- foreshadowing

- key info he didn't know which could've saved him

'the end was

contained in the beginning'

"it was like a foretaste

of death"

- inevitability of failure and rebellion

- metaphorical phrase, as soon as you do one bad things it's over

"if you can feel that staying human is worth while,

even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them"

"when you have read the book

you will be full members of the Brotherhood"

- O'Brien tricking them into reading Goldstein's book

"a wave of admiration, almost of worship

flowed out from Winston towards O'Brien"

- Winston's bad judge of character

"so ugly and yet so civilised,

it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated"

- perfect embodiment of the party

"nothing holds it together

except an idea which is indestructible"

"we are the dead.

our only true life is in the future"

- O'Brien says this, meaning he has been listening to them

- makes the brotherhood more appealing to Winston

- adds to Winston's bad judge of character

"the theory and practise of

oligarchical collectivism' by Emmanuel Goldstein"

"he understood how;

he did not understand why'

"if there was hope

it lay in the proles"

2+2

= 5

"someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table

and smashed it to pieces"

- symbolises end of W and j's relationship

"carried her out of the room

like a sack"

"and that was the last

he saw of her'

"he wondered whether

they had got Mr Charrington"

- ironic

- W is a bad judge of character

- He was set up and still doesn't realise even after he has been caught

"it occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge...

at a member of the Thought Police"