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 * Totalitarianism

** "Big Brother is watching you" 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. // ‘So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture…they were the homes of the four ministries…’ //

**'You knew this Winston,' said O'Brien. 'Dont deceive yourself. You did know it-- you have always known it.' // Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me // // ‘He felt deeply drawn to him.’ // Control of party ** We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping of a human face --for ever.
 * Foreshadowing

// To begin with he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984.’ // // ‘In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices.’ // // ‘Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ // // ‘In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.’ // // ‘…the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.’ // "He could never see the face of Goldsetein without a painful mixture of emotions" "Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right" "But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated" Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference.

// ‘In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices.’ // the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handling-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. // ‘Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.’ // // ‘WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’ // // …VICTORY GIN. It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.’ // // ‘…an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it.’ //**
 * Propaganda and brainwashing **

Fatalism ** "There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on" If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping of a human face --for ever. // ‘You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.’ //

// It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past.’ //
 * Winston’s character **

Winston who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle // ‘It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party…’ //