Discover the most impactful quotes from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with the Best of 1984 Quotes guide. This concise resource highlights key quotes and provides brief analysis, offering quick and valuable insights into the novel's major themes, characters, and symbols. Ideal for OCR Englis...
Isolation "He disliked nearly all women" (9) WINSTON +
isolation
Rebellion / Anti- 'Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford' DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
Government Anything that hinted at corruption always filled
him with a wild hope.' 'anything we are capable of doing…' EVEN:
'The more men you've had, the more I love you.' 'you are prepared to commit murder? Yes.'
'the object was not to stay alive but to 'you are prepared to commit suicide… Yes.'
stay human.' 'throw sulphuric acid in a child's face… Yes.'
'to separate and never see one another
Goldstein's book again? No!'
Theory and practice of oligarchical collectivism.' ' if you clung to the truth even against the
- Oxymoronic whole world, you were not mad.'
'to die hating them… that was freedom.'
Defamiliarisation 'Saint Pancras Station.' "and the clocks were striking thirteen"
' I wonder what a lemon was.'
'Victory Square' - Trafalgar Square. Also BB
statue replaces Nelson's Column
Surveillance "There's no telescreen!" he could not help Big Brother's eyes on the poster seeming to
murmuring.' follow you
Bathrooms are the one place, 'you could be
more certain that the telescreens were watched
continuously.'
Living Standard / Setting 'Chestnut Tree Café' ACO- Korova Milk Bar "the Parson's flat was bigger than Winston's,
'swarming life of the streets was going on as and dingy in a different way" 'dingy'
though nothing had happened.' - after bomb - life is a moment-to-moment struggle against
like when Alex is getting beaten up - everyone hunger or cold or sleeplessness.'
keeps walking past.
Many of the disappearances were actually 'where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years
suicides.' - Alex also ACO earlier' - Context: Orwell's time, cold war.
'In reality there was no escape.'
, 'there was never enough to eat.' 'deliberate policy to keep even the favoured
groups somewhere near the brink of
hardship.'
Family / Children / "'you're a traitor', yelled the boy, 'you're a 'nipped off to the patrols the very next day.' -
Indoctrination thought criminal" Parsons kids.
"the lives of his mother and his sister had been
sacrificed to his own. "
Loss of Identity " 6070 Smith W! yes, you! " 'we are dead.' O'Brien says to Winston.
'It was enough, Syme had ceased to exist: he
had never existed.' "You do not exist."
Mr Charrington 'He led a ghostlike existence.'
Technology 'If you are a man, Winston, you are the last
'our surgeons can alter people beyond man.' Context - last man in europe.
recognition.'
The past / Childhood " There had been a fairly long interval of peace Had it always been like this? Had food always
during his childhood. " tasted like this?
" During his childhood there had been a ''drowning deeper every minute, but still
confused street-fighting in London itself. " ACO looking up at him through the darkening
water.' - Mother
Utopia / Idyll "the Golden Country. "
'Pools of gold wherever the boughs parted.'
'The air seemed to kiss one's skin… droning of
ring doves.'
Control + Party " 'Who controls the past,' ran the party slogan, Comrade Ogilvy - model presented by BB who
'controls the future: who controls the present wasn't real but with some 'faked photographs'
controls the past.' " soon came 'into existence.'
The model glamourises 'ate the age of three…
'All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and refusing all toys except a sub-machine gun
re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary' and a model helicopter.'
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