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__**The god of small things**__

** Social Discrimination **
"Some things come with their own punishment." Page 109

** Love **
"Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Page 112

** Forbidden Love **
"It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined."

** Indian History and Politics **
"The air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside." Page 136

"Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story." Page 32

** Class Relations and Cultural Tensions **
"Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?" Page 171 "He left no footprints in the sand, no ripples in the water, no image in the mirrors." Page 206

"Men's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify." Page 292

** Forbidden Love / Love **
"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?" Page 208

** Social Discrimination **
"Change is one thing. Acceptance is another." Page 265 "They had nothing. No future. So they stuck to small things."

"What came for them? ... Not Death. Just the end of living." Page 304
 * Death**

__**A Hero of Our Time**__


 * Pechorin**


 * “The turmoil of life has left me with a few ideas, but no feelings.”

“The air is pure, as the kiss of a child, the sun in bright, the sky blue – what more does one want? What need have we here of passions, desires, regrets?”

"I'll hazard my life, even my honor, twenty times, but I will not sell my freedom."

"What is happiness but gratified pride ?" **

I**nability to enjoy life**


 * "I might recover, or I might just as easily die: one thing or the other, it's all in the way of nature."

"This is how the hero of our time must be. He will be characterized either by decisive inaction, or else by futile activity."

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”

__1984__

**Role of Women "He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones."

“Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema”

Control of the Party "He could never see the face of Goldsetein without a painful mixture of emotions"

“WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOME IS SLAVERY / IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”

“You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him”

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

**// "To begin with he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984."

"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right"

"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" //


 * “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“And when memory failed and written records were falsified”

"You knew this Winston,' said O'Brien. 'Dont deceive yourself. You did know it-- you have always known it."

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."

"But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated" ** **