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1984 Quotes Theme Dangers of Totalitarianism

Psychological Manipulation

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

Technique Antithesis

Analysis Written in Winston’s diary

“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

Irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, nihilistic denouement Rhetorical Question, anaphora

Foreshadows to Winston’s subjugation and loyalty to the Party, highlights the futility of rebellion Emphasises the oppression from the party against the individual

“how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force?” “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.” “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.” “If human equality is to be for ever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.” “The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.” “For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?” “Winston could not even remember at what date the Party itself had come into existence.”

Written in Goldstein’s book against Ingsoc.

Irony, juxtaposition

Ironic statement reflecting the very nature of the party – to confuse the individual

Written in Goldstein’s book against Ingsoc.

Rhetoric statement, hyperbole Rhetorical Question

Emphasis on Ingsoc’s power and the way they control the past and the future –Winston’s personal rhetoric demonstrates the absolute power of knowledge

Tone

Pessimistic tone

Physical Control & Violence

“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.” "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” “It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.” “Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four.”

Imagery

Pessimistic imagery

Paradox, oxymoron, Anaphoric sentence structure Narrative perspective

explains how ignorance makes the masses more susceptible to control

"You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them.” “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?” "You asked me once," said O'Brien, "what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”

Dialogue

Allegory

Dialogue, foreshadows

3rd person limited narrator; enhancing the sense of oppression Winston endures Hidden meaning- how the false information is disguised to appear true Written in Winston’s diary, this thought is what allows Winston to maintain individuality in thought. However, he doesn’t maintain this in Room 101. Elaboration of torture reflecting the Party’s physical control

Dialogue

More emphasis on physical control

Dialogue, foreshadowing

Foreshadows that Winston will be tortured there.

CONTROL of memory, information & history

Propaganda

''We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

Metaphor

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

Rhetoric Question

“even the date of the year had become uncertain.” "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Tone

“Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?” “Every record has been destroyed or falsified..” “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

Paradox, oxymoron, Anaphoric sentence structure Rhetorical Question High modality language Paradox statement, irony, oxymoron

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

Paradox, oxymoron

“In the end the Party would announce that two

Internal thought

Illustrates how a vacuum is created so Big Brother fills that vacuum and individuals will love Big Brother. Context: Electroconvulsive therapy was used to remove thoughts and control impulses. Emphasis on the fact that not only can the Party control us physically, but mentally too

Winston’s thoughts as he writes new history, pessimistic, gloomy Party slogan, explains how ignorance makes the masses more susceptible to control Winston’s thoughts as he writes new history. Reinforces control The three mottos represent oxymorons as all contain what appear to be opposing terms, yet the meaning behind them is true for the world state. Keeping the country at constant war does lead to peace among the people of Oceania. Ignorance is Strength is also true in that an uneducated, easily manipulated populace is easy for the government to use for its own power. Party slogan – emphasises the parties power, explains how ignorance makes the masses more susceptible to control Mental domination of Party

Love/Sexuality

Independence & Identity

and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” “by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them.” “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the party. It was a political act.” “I love you.”

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” "Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the bones.” “demanding that all love and loyalty be reserved for Big Brother and the Party. In this way, the bonds between parents and children are broken.” “ The Party has no room for love, unless that love is directed with full force at Big Brother and Oceania.” “You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.” "It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.” “Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain.” "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you

Listing

Emphasis on the never-ending control of the Party

Extended Sexual Metaphor

– their vibrant and fulfilling affair is a political attack

Dialogue, irony (in a world that doesn’t know love), simple sentence Dialogue

In the note from Julia, declaration of death upon them both because love is forbidden. Between Julia and Winston

Symbolism

Exaggerates the extent of the party’s control

Ironic

Exaggerates the extent of the party’s control

Tone

Sad, pessimistic, reflects Party’s complete control Abnormal family structure, reflects how the party can manipulate children too Foreshadows the end of the book when this becomes true of Winston

Ironic, creates a weird setting Foreshadowing

Dialogue

Manipulation of thought – forces people to feel that they are nothing without the party.

Loyalty & Betrayal

Technology & Surveillance

understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent." "The one thing that matters is that we shouldn't betray one another, although even that can't make the slightest difference.” "Confession is not betrayal.” “If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.” "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you.” “there was no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.” "The picture had fallen to the floor uncovering the telescreen behind it.” “as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.”

“It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.” “there seemed to be no colour in anything” and posters of a “black mustachio’d face gazing down from every commanding corner” bearing the famous caption, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”

Ironic, foreshadow

Foreshadows their own betrayal of each other

Dialogue Dialogue, foreshadowing

Attempt to convince themselves Foreshadows the ending when they do stop loving each other Individuality/emotionality: You can overthrow the Party at micro level if you maintain love for one another. - Love can overpower the state

Foreshadows

synecdoche Symbolism Symbolism

Imagery Symbolism, allusion, characterisation, motif

Emphasises the party’s power, the audience feel the omnipresence of BB. Symbolism of the telescreen – watching the people constantly. Telescreens are a visible symbol as well as the direct means of the Party’s constant monitoring of its subjects. They also symbolise the tendency of totalitarian governments to abuse technology. Highlights how every moved is watched Historical allusion - The posters of Big Brother strikingly resemble Adolf Hitler (some think perhaps Joseph Stalin).

Language as Mind Control

Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution

“Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak.”

Juxtaposition

Statement emphasises the control of language

“Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.” “The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” “The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the worldview and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.” "'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.’" “He had carried it guiltily home in his briefcase. Even with nothing written in it, it was a compromising possession.” “the urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.” “rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word.” "I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” "Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the bones.” “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” “But the proles, if only they could somehow

3rd person

Emphasises how they use language to enforce control

3rd person

Emphasises how they use language to enforce control Emphasises how they use language to enforce control

3rd person

Metaphor, ironic

Relentless pain in need in society. Society→ selflessness

Emphasises Winston’s hatred of the party, as well as his compressed emotions Imagery

Dialogue

Rebellion and compressed emotions

Juxtaposition

Proles have the power to rebel, but they don’t know they can cause they’re dumdums

Juxtaposition

Proles have the power to rebel, but they don’t

become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.” “The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.” “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone” “To mark the paper was a decisive act.” Winston

Julia

“I’m thirty-nine years old. I’ve got a wife that I cant get rid of. I’ve got varicose veins. I’ve got five false teeth.” "From over scrubby cheekbones eyes looked into Winston’s, sometimes with strange intensity, and flashed away again. The convoy was drawing to an end. " “The tears welled up in his eyes”, “Heart stirred”, “A sort of premonitory terror, a fear of he was not certain what”, “His bowels seemed to turn to water” “Winston made a frantic effort to tear himself lose from his chair. It was hopeless, every part of him, even his head was held immovably” “I understand HOW, I do not understand WHY.”

know they can cause they’re dumdums Ironic

Characterisation

Highlighting emotions and expression of thought, as well as how they are compressed Written in Winston’s journal, Orwell advocates for truth, individuality and freedom. Use of the form a letter directed to future or past - directs his message to his audience Metaphor for Winston’s rebellion, thoughtcrime as a decisive act. Reflects Winston’s physical appearance

Characterisation

Reflects Winston’s physical appearance

Emotive Imagery

Reflects how Winston felt while being tortured.

Symbolism

Of trapped in Ingsoc, controlled, helpeless.

juxtaposition

Reflects how he knows how the party changed the past, but doesn’t know why His ulcer is representative of his oppression. It is a symbol of his crumbling exterior to match his dying interior. Reflects naivety

Direct to the audience,

Metaphor

“His veins had swelled with the effort of the Motif of the ULCER cough, and the varicose ulcer had started itching.” "It was something in your face. I thought I'd take a Dialogue, characterisation

chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were against them." "You like doing this? I don't mean simply me: I mean the thing in itself?" "I adore it." “You are only a rebel from the waist downwards”

O’Brien

Extra Quotes

of Julia

Dialogue

Julia rebels with her body, sex is her act of rebellion.

double entendre

“Shall I tell you why I have brought you here. To cure you! To make you sane!”

Dialogue

“Pain is not always enough” “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face —forever."

Ironic Imagery, metaphor

Julia’s motive for rebellion and how she rebels differs to Winston in that she isn’t conscious of why she must rebel and she rebels by being duplicitous. Method of control – torture, ironic, uses Winston’s biggest fear against him Ironic – strange way of thinking, control Pessimistic imagery – no hope/future.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks

Connotations (with 13),

Orwell begins his novel, Immediately showing

were striking thirteen.”

tone, metaphor

that the world has changed. 13 – unlucky number? “Big Brother Is Watching You.” Motif, allusion (stalin, hitler) Appears everywhere in Oceania, highlighting surveillance – BB is everywhere. “We shall meet in the place where there is no Foreshadow O’Brien says this to Winston in a dream, where darkness.” Winston already thinks of him as an ally, but said again in room 101. “Doublethink means the power of holding two Juxtaposition Emmanuel Goldstein's definition of doublethink, used to keep the Inner Party contradictory beliefs ... and accepting both of member in a constant state of fear and them.” hysteria that is necessary to maintain power, always believing they are in war. “Sanity is not statistical.” Irony, rhetorical phrase the last thought that Winston has after he finishes reading Goldstein's book and before he falls asleep. All of the people in Winston's life, except Julia, accept the lies that the Party tells, so Winston has no one to confirm that he's not crazy for rejecting these lies. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere Phrase, dialogue O'Brien's goal is to retrain Winston's mind to else.” accept whatever the Party tells him as reality, no matter what his senses tell him. “Power is not a means; it is an end.” Argument sums up the main reason the Party wants power, seeking power for power's sake. “The party seeks power entirely for its own sake.” Dialogue Said by O’Brien as he tortures Winston. Simile, emotive language Two Minute Hate - negative connotations 'Uncontrollable exclamations of rage' convey extremity of scapegoating as they are 'hideous, grinding speech as of some monstrous usually associated with extreme discomfort machine' and horror 'Vile wind' Connotations, imagery, extremely negative connotations and are 'gritty dust' pathetic fallacy usually associated with misery. Hence

'flapped fitfully'

Victory gin...the stuff was like nostril acid'

Irony

“We are the dead”

Tone, foreshadows

“Victory Mansions”

Irony

"the lie became the truth"

Irony

“no one whom we brings to this place leaves uncured."

Satire

“cabbage”

Olfactory imagery

“The Ministry of Love was the really frightening

Ironic, oxymoron

adjectives convey harrowing, dark, ugly and grey world, The effect of the pathetic fallacy when the wind is described as 'vile' portrays a comfortlessness of the world around Winston but also reflects his underlying feelings of disgust with it. creates suspicion and confusion, warns readers not to trust anything in Oceania. Victory gin self medicates, habitually drunk in order to deal with world, dull senses defeated, pessimistic tone, bleakness and hopelessness of life The irony of the name of his apartment block 'Victory Mansions' reiterates these feelings as 'Victory' implies happiness and joy when all he experiences is harshness, and 'Luxury' implies ease and wealth when he leads a life of dilapidation and squalor. symbolizes how the big brother takes every part of history pertaining to them and twists it into their own imaging, creating a "lie". they will Make him "sane" meaning that they will bring Winston to what the society deems normal. This shows how what Big brother deems to be normal or accepted is opposite from what others think. describing the hallway smelling like cabbage Orwell suggests a world of extensive and inescapable poverty.

one.” “For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.” “sour metallic smell”

Sensory imagery

"Winston woke up with the word 'Shakespeare' on his lips"

Literary allusion

'I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity...' (to O'Brien in the MoL)

Dialogue

"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres in your skull"

Foreshadows, thought police

“Uncalled, a memory floated into his mind.”

Flashbacks

"bombed sites where plaster dust swirled in the air"

Motif – urban decay, imagery

Describing the smell of the canteen, showing poverty. These allusions to infamous literary figures may be a message about the importance of language and literature in shaping soc...