1984: Part 1, Chapter 1

-Winston arrives at his apartment, seeing the face of Big Brother everywhere.
  • ‘a coloured poster, ==too large for indoor display’==
  • ‘ruggedly handsome features’
  • ‘It was no use trying to use the lift, at the best of times it was seldom working’
-Winston has some Victory Gin and sets out to start a diary - an act technically punishable by death even though there are no laws.
  • ‘The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being ==hit on the back of the head with a rubber club==’
  • ‘the telescreen in the livingroom was in an unusual position’
  • ‘It was partly the ==unusual geography of the room== that suggested him to do the thing that he was now about to do’
  • ‘It was a peculiarly beautiful book….the kind that had not been manufactured at least forty years past’
  • ‘Even with nothing written in it, it was a ==compromising possession==’
  • ‘nothing was illegal, since there were ==no longer any laws==’
-Winston thinks about his romantic eye contact with O’Brien.
  • ‘some post so important and remote that Winston only had a ==vague== idea of its nature’
  • ‘He had a certain ==charm== of manner’
  • ‘curiously ==civilized==’
  • ‘he had the appearance of being ==someone you could talk to==’
-Winston talks about the Two Minutes Hate.
  • ‘mingled fear and disgust’
  • ‘He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the party’s ==purity==’
  • ‘an attack so exaggerated and perverse, even a ==child should have been able to see through it==’
  • ‘He was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, ==freedom of thought==’
  • ‘swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others ==exactly similar==’
  • ‘it was impossible to avoid joining in’
  • ‘A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to ==flow through the whole group of people like an electric current==’
  • ‘the rage that one felt was an abstract, ==undirected emotion== which could be switched from one object to another’
  • ‘Big Brother seemed to tower up, an ==invincible, fearless protector==’
  • ‘violent effort with which one wrenches one’s head away from the pillow in a ==nightmare==’