Paper 2 Punchy Quotes

The Metamorphosis & 1984

First line of TM

As Gregor Sansa awoke one morning from an uneasy dream he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect

GS profession of love despite betrayal

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was if possible even firmer than his sisters.

GS critiquing work culture

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gives rise to the gravest suspicions.

The Apple

“no one dared to remove it” “it was his family’s duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, and nothing more”

Gregors first reaction after the metamorphosis

At the time Gregor’s sole desire was to do his utmost to help the family forget as soon as possible the catasrophe that had overwhelmed the buisness and thrown them all into a state of complete despair.

Family’s new appreciation for Grete

Until now they had frequently been annoyed with her because she had struck them as being a little useless.

The Sisters Character Downfall

”It has to go’ “You just have to try to get rid of the idea that its Gregor”

Fathers reaction to death

Dead? Well now we can thank God

Smith talking about ThoughtCrime

He committed- would have still committed even if he had never set pen to paper- the essential crime that contained al others in itself. Thoughtcrime.

Performative notion of love for Julia (protest)

It aroused no desire in him, what he admired was the carelessness which she threw her cloths, as if big brother and the party could be swept into nothingness.

Smith Critiquing Parson

Parson… would never be vaporized “eyeless creature”

Party slogan

He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past

Purpose of New speak

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

How the party will cure smith

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you up with ourselves.

DIRECT REFRENCE TO INSPO- Nazis

The German Nazis and the Russian Communisits came very close to us in their methods, but they were cowards and hypocrites.

The removal of loyalty and love from the party

There will be no loyalty except to the party, and no love except the love of big brother.

Quote to support authoritative gov

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

The true Orwellian- thought is the crime not action

When you finally surrender to us it must be of your own free will.