English a level - 1984

quotes and moments

comparable quote from THT and 1984 on theme of sanity

“i hoard it (sanity) the way people once hoarded money” - THT

“it was by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage” - 1984

quote from p2c7 on how far the regime can indoctrinate people

“the inner heart… remained impregnable”

2 quotes from p1c7 on freedom

“freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows”

“as the party slogan put it: ‘proles and animals are free’”

quote on reality and control from p1c7

“if both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and the mind itself is controllable, what then?”

2 quotes from p3c2 as O’Brian suggests Winston is mad

“a lunatic, a minority of one”

“reality exists only in the human mind, and nowhere else”

quote from p1c5 defining orthodoxy

“orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think, orthodoxy is unconsciousness”

2 quotes about political conformity from p2c2 as Winston is in the field with Julia

“always yell with the crowd… it’s the only way to be safe”

“it was a political act”

2 quotes about pain from p3c1

“in the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes”

“too preoccupied… by pain in his belly to take too much interest in his surroundings”

4 quotes from O’Brien re-educating Winston of the power the party holds and their plan for the future in p3c3

“we are the priests of power”

“progress in our world will be progress towards more pain”

“if you are a man, Winston, you are the last man”

“no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end".”

3 quotes from p3c6, the last chapter of the book

“in no chess problem since the beginning of the world had black ever won. did it not symbolise the eternal, unvarying triumph of good over evil?”

“they can’t get inside you, she had said, but they could”

“he had won the victory over himself. he loved big brother”

opening quote from p1c1. what is this an allusion to?

“it was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” in ‘the waste land’ (1922) T.S. Elliot describes April as “the cruellest month”

quote from p1c1 describing what Winston sees in O’Brien

“perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intellegence”

quote from p1c1 describing the violence of the two minutes hate

“a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture”

quote from Goldstein’s book (p2c9) on technology

“even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty”

party slogan from p1c1 promoting doublethink

“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”

2 quotes from p3c5 while Winston is in room 101

“for an instant he was insane, a screaming animal”

“tear her face off, strip her to the bones. not me! Julia!”

what is the appendix called

‘the principles of newspeak’

quote from p1c1 sexualising Julia

“a narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the junior anti-sex league, was wound several times over her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.”

quote from p1c1 describing ‘MiniLove’ and quote from P1C1 describing ‘MiniTrue’

"the Ministry of Love was the really frightening one"

“towered vast and white above the grimy landscape”

quote from p1c1 showing Winston’s physical suffering

"varicose ulcer began itching unbearably"

quote from p1c1 showing totalitarian control

"You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard"

quote from p1c4 on propaganda, as Winston works in MiniTrue

"when the act of forgery was forgotten, he (Ogilvy) would exist just as authentically, upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Ceaser"

quote from p2s2 showing Winston’s’ confession of his previous hatred of Julia

"I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I seriously thought of smashing your head in with a cobblestone"

quote from p2c2 on corruption

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

quote from p2c3 showing the contamination of love

"kissed him almost violently"

quote from p3c2 undermining Winston’s dignty

"he rolled about the floor, shameless as an animal"

quote from p1c5 showing Winston’s mockery of those indoctrinated

"Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal"

quote from O’Brien in P3C3 showing the party’s lack of concern for its citizens

“We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power”

quote from O’Brien in P3C2 comparable to Offred’s assertion “Gilead is within you”

“We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves”

quote from O’Brien on freedom in P3C3

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better”

quote on love and loyalty in Oceania from P3C3

“There will be no loyalty except loyalty to the Party. There will be no love except the love for Big Brother”

quote from Syme correlating language and thought in P1C5

“Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller”

quote from P2C5 where Winston sexualises Julia

“you’re only a rebel from the waist downwards”

quote from Parsons on his willingness to work in a labour-camp from P3C1

“a chap like me could make himself very useful in a labour-camp.”

3 quotes from p1c1 showing “Victory Mansions” is neglected

“the hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats”

“a coloured poster, too large for indoor display”

“it was no use trying the lift”

3 quotes from P1C1 showing the environment of Oceania is harsh

“a swirl of gritty dust entering along with him”

“the world looked cold”

“there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters”

quote about Winston’s dreamed ‘Golden Country’ in P1C3

“the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair”

2 quotes about the setting of the countryside in P2C2

“the ground was misty with bluebells”

“the air seemed to kiss one’s skin”