1984+Quotes


 * __1984 Key Quotes... Please list them under here with your name under them.Please write which themes and ideas these quotes can support next to them (5 for each)__**

NIels

LOVE:

p51 : you did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades.

p139 : What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria

p19 : It was as though their two minds had opened and thoughts were flowing from one into the other through their eyes " I am with you"

p264 : he had never loved him so deeply as at this moment

p280 :There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother.

p133 : It was a political act.

p113 : I love you

p300 : Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!

Characterization:

p3 : Winston who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle ( anti hero)

p251 : In the face of pain there are no heroes

p179 : you are prepared to give you lives? yes you are prepared to commit murder? yes To commit acts od sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people? yes

Setting:

p3 : The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats

p5 Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their window patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all direcection?

p6 : So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions.

p125 : The sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves.

p100 : and in the warm dim light the placed looked curiously inviting

p157 : The room was paradise

Oppression:

p 107 :War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength

p 52 :But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated

//p 3 : Big Brother is watching you.//

p37: Who controls the past', ran the party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

"Big Brother is watching you" (oppression, irony, totalitarianism, control of information, directness of written style)

Andrea Argenio 1) "He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones" (role of women, distortion of society, irony, control of the Party, totalitarianism) 2) "There was truth and there was untruth" (narrative style, narrator altering as the character of Winston does, brainwashing of the Party, totalitarianism, Newspeak) 3) "It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working..." (oppression, evils of totalitarianism, reflecting of the society, narrative voice) 4) "A varicose ulcer above his right ankle" (freedom, physical being reflecting mental being, oppression, character of Winston Smith, character development) 5) "To begin with he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984" (memory, oppression, control of information, evils of totalitarianism, irony) 6) "He could never see the face of Goldsetein without a painful mixture of emotions" (oppression, control of the Party, brainwashing, character of Winston, irony) 7) "He was a fattish but active man or paralyzing stupidity" (narrative voice, control of the party, irony, reflecting of society) 8) "There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on" (fatalism, irony, oppression, control of the Party, love) 9) "Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right" (totalitarianism, irony, oppression, control of information, brainwashing) 10) " 'We imagine it. It is hallucination' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious" (oppression, irony, control of the Party, narrative voice, character development) 11) "Two and two make five" (irony, oppression, control of the Party, character development) 13) "Do it to Julia!" (irony, oppression, control of the Party, character development, anti-hero Winston Smith) 14) "VICTORY items" (irony, oppression, control of the Party, freedom, propaganda) 15) " 'To betray your country to foreign powers?' 'Yes.' " (irony, control of the Party, character development, heroic Winston Smith) 16) "The richness of the dark-blue carpet gave one the impression of treading on velvet" (irony, injustice in the system, heroic Winston Smtih, naive Winston Smith) 17) "It was a peculiarly beautiful book" (freedom, fight against the Party, oppression, contrast with surroundings and everything bleak around him) 18) "War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength" (oppression, control of the Party, irony, brainwashing, propaganda) 19) "The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one" (narrative voice, oppression, control of the Party, irony, totalitarianism) 20) "But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated" (oppression, control of the Party, irony, fatalism, narrative voice)

//1) People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. (Power)

2) And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. (Manipulation)//

//3) Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar. (Manipulation, Memory)//

//4) Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. (Manipulation)//

//5) Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speakwrite which was of course impossible for his present purpose. (Technology, Memory)//

//6) Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different? (Memory)//

//7) And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. (Memory)//

//8) And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (Rebellion)//

//9) And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime. (Rebellion)//

//10) But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. (Rebellion)//

//11) "I've been at school too, dear. Sex talks once a month for the over-sixteens. And in the Youth Movement. They rub it into you for years. I dare say it works in a lot of cases. But of course you can never tell; people are such hypocrites." (Power, Repression)//

//12) "Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (Betrayal)//

//13) Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. (Power, Fear)//

//14) From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (Power, Repression, Totalitarianism)//

//15) "We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?" (Power, Repression, Indoctrination)//

//16) The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with theprinciples of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. (Power, Repression)//

// 17) In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old // // sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for "Science." The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some // // way be used for the diminution of human liberty. (Power, Control, Repression) //

//18) The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. (Power, Manipulation, Memory and the Past)//

//19) In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. (Repression, Technology)

20)// //"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." (Totalitarianism, Irony, Control)//

Vivek

Federico Salazar
 * 1) The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. (oppressive setting, control of society (everything smells like this)
 * 2) BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU (control of the Party, oppression, symbol of BB, totalitarianism, brainwashing)
 * 3) The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. (oppression, control of the Party, totalitarianism)
 * 4) Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. (oppression, description of setting, control of party, diction)
 * 5) Only the Thought Police mattered. (oppression of thought, physical vs. emotional control, Ministry of Love, control of the party)
 * 6) War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength (control of the party, oppression, Newspeak, doublethink, paradoxical)
 * 7) Victory gin/cigarettes...etc ( doublethink, irony, control of the party, propaganda)
 * 8) He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. (role of women, society division/class, Julia, irony, control of the Party)
 * 9) Winstons's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party and the Thought Police.. (heroic Winston, rebellion, irony, control of the party)
 * 10) Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. (thoughtcrime, control of the Party, rebelliousness of Winston, fatalism of Winston)
 * 11) Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. (control of the Party, oppression, thoughtcrime)
 * 12) 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. ( control of the Party, propaganda, incentive for hatred, oppression, irony)
 * 13) 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. (totalitarianism...)
 * 14) A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. ( control of the Party, irony, doublethink)
 * 15) 'You knew this Winston,' said O'Brien. 'Dont deceive yourself. You did know it-- you have always known it.' (fatalism, irony, foreshadowing, control of the Party)
 * 16) Two plus two equals five (irony, oppression, control of the Party, torturing)
 * 17) We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. (totalitarianism, propaganda, brainwashing, control of the Party)
 * 18) If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping of a human face --for ever. (totalitarianism, fatalism, diction, inescapable fate)
 * 19) 'Room 101,' he said. (oppression, control by fear, thoughtcontrol, control of the party)
 * 20) //Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me// (control of the Party, foreshadowing, brainwashing, character development)

//It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ (pg. 3) (unusualness of society, setting)// 2. //‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’ (pg. 3) (oppression, constant monitoring, totalitarianism, lack of freedom of will, fear of party)// 3. //‘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.’ (pg. 4) (propaganda, constant brainwashing, constant monitoring)// 4. //‘…crazy garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willowherb straggled over the heaps of rubble.’ (pg. 5) (chaos, disintegration of society, disregard for aesthetic beauty, poor living conditions)// 5. //‘WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’ (pg. 6) (self-contradictory nature of society, double-think, nature of party, propaganda)// 6. //‘…VICTORY GIN. It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.’ (pg. 7) (irony, propaganda, brainwashing)// 7. //‘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.’ (pg. 8) (comparative beauty of past, Winston’s longing for past, rebellion)// 8. //‘To begin with he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984.’ (pg. 9) (brainwashing, control of information, re-writing of past, propaganda)// 9. //‘It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party…’ (pg. 12) (Unconventional role of women, Winston’s hatred of women)// 10. //‘He felt deeply drawn to him.’ (pg. 13) (foreshadowing, Winston being misled by party, complete control of party)// 11. //‘…an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it.’ (pg. 14) (propaganda, brainwashing, indoctrination, complete faith of people in party)// 12. //‘Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.’ (pg. 15) (control of emotions, propaganda, totalitarianism)// 13. //‘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.’ (pg. 16) (control of emotions, propaganda, totalitarianism)// 14. //‘You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.’ (pg. 21) (thoughtcrime, Winston’s fatalist nature, control of party, totalitarianism)// 15. //‘Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearthstone. (pg. 232) (symbolism, loss of Winston’s freedom, power of party, totalitarianism)// 16. //‘Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ (pg. 37) (control of information, re-writing of past, totalitarianism)// 17. //‘In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.’ (pg. 83) (totalitarianism, double-think, mind control, brainwashing)// 18. //‘…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.’ (pg. 97) (control of information, re-writing of past, totalitarianism, brainwashing)// 19. //‘So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture…they were the homes of the four ministries…’ (pg. 6) (imperious nature of party, sub-conscious brainwashing, totalitarianism)// 20. //‘There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the world, you were not mad.’ (pg. 226) (Winston’s desire to rebel, nature of human mind, Winston’s philosophical nature, Winston’s potential for intelligence, contrast in Winston’s personality)//

Ahmad


 * 1984 Quotes **

The hallway smelt of Boiled Cabbage and old rag mats Part 1 Chapter 1

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. Part 1 Chapter 1

Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same Part 1 Capter 1

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death. Part 1, Chapter 2

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Part 1 Chapter 2

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Part 1 Chapter 1

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Part 1, Chapter 3

…to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime. Part 1, Chapter 5

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. Part 1, Chapter 6

If there is hope... it lies in the proles. Part 1 Chapter 7

The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep people frightened." Part 2 Chapter 5

War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible. Part 2 Chapter 9

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. Part 2 Chapter 9

I tell you Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else Part 3 Chapter 2

“How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."  "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane." Part 3 Ch.apter 2

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves Part 3 Ch. 2

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Part 3 Ch. 3

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. Part 3 Ch. 3

To die hating them, that was freedom. Part 3 Ch.4

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. Part 3 Ch. 6

Ralph Quotes

Yadhu 1. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (part 1, ch. 1, pg. 3).

2. “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (part 1, ch. 1, pg. 6).

3. “We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness” (part 1, ch. 2, pg. 27).

4. “Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (part 1, ch. 3, pg. 37).

5. “Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom” (part 1, ch. 6, pg. 64).

6. “Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema” (part 1, chapter 5, pg 69).

7. “If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles” (part 1, ch. 7, pg 74).

8. “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot come conscious” (part 1, ch. 7, pg. 74).

9. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plays two is equal to four. If that is granted, all else follows” (part 1, chapter 7, pg. 84).

10. “So long as they were actually in this room, they both felt, no harm could come to them” (part 2, ch. 5, pg. 152).

11. “She only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between the truth and falsehood did not seem important to her” (part 2, ch. 5, pg. 154).

12. “But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies”.

13. “The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous was has ceased to exist… War is Peace”.

14. “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”.

15. “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in”.

16. “Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same”.

17. “Sanity is not statistical”.

18. “To die hating them, that was freedom”.

19. “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork”.

20. “Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you”.