Power - 1984

Hand - Past

Thrust its hand into the past ... more terrifying than mere torture or death?

Purges

Purges and vaporisations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government.

Goldstein

Capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

BB - 2 mins hate

Full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen

Against Goldstein

The enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate

Because - Danger

Because of the extremity of his danger he had lost the power to act.

Katharine

Katharine's white body, frozen for ever by the hypnotic power of the Party.

Power - Material World

Persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world.

Speech

For a moment he seemed even to have been deprived of the power of speech.

Individual

The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.

O’brien - not interested

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

Party’s 2 aims

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought

The dead

And above all we do not allow the dead to rise up against us.

The Eternal Guardian

That the party was the eternal guardian of the weak, a dedicated sect doing evil so that good might come,

The End

Power is not a means, it is an end.

O’brien - religious power

Priests of power