Ahmad's+quotes

1. ‘//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)//