Identity (quote comparison)

THMT

1984


  • “We have quite a collection…she’s a sociologist. Or was.” (The Jezebel workers) Chapter 37


  • “I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known.” P278


  • “what he is fucking is the lower part of my body”


  • “I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely”


  • “I want to be held and told my name.I want to be valued in ways that I am not.”



  • "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man."


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


  • “by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”


  • “The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primi- tive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.”


  • “if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he IS the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.” O’B