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"big brother is..."
"watching you"
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- lack of freedom
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- means to come across friendly, is actually manipulative and an example of extreme surveillance
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- Inaptonym = a word not suited for the thing it describes
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"there seemed to be no colour in anything...
"except the posters that were plastered everywhere"
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- surveillance
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- lack of freedom
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- propoganda
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- oppressive society
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"Winston kept his back to the telescreen. It was safe; though, as he well knew, ..
"even a back can be revealing"
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- pervasive fear
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"war is
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"freedom is
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"ignorance is
"Peace"
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"Slavery"
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"Strength"
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- doublethink
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- propoganda
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- oxymoronic and paradoxical
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"all he had to do was transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue ...
"that had been running inside his head, literally for years"
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- constant rebellion
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- even though he knows writing in his diary is dangerous and could get him killed, he still does it
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"Junior ant-
sex league"
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- what Julia is apart of
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- he knows a lot of about her for someone who isn't meant to know her at all - odd
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"it was almost normal for people over 30
to be frightened of their own children"
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"it was still impossible to be sure -
whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy"
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"always the eyes watching you and
the voice enveloping you"
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"the diary would be reduced to ashes
and himself to vapour"
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"thoughtcrime does not entail death:
thoughtcrime IS death"
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"his mother's memory died loving him,
when he was too young and selfish to love her in return"
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"beyond the late 50s everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to...
even the outline of your on life lost its sharpness"
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"even to understand the word 'doublethink'...
involved the use of doublethink
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"all history was
a palimpsest
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- a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form
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"vaporisations were
a necessary party of the mechanics of the government"
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"orange and lemons' says the bells of St Clements,
'you owe me three farthings' says the bells of St Martins
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