1984

1984

1. Main Characters

   • Winston Smith
     • "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
   • Julia
     • "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."
   • O'Brien
     • "We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull…"
   • Mr. Charington

2. Motifs

   • BIG BROTHER
   • GLASS PAPERWEIGHT
     • “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
   • URBAN DECAY
   • EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN
   • The Sash

3. Themes

   • Totalitarianism and state repression
     • “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
   • Nationalism
   • The Individual: Isolation and Allienation
     • “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.”
     • To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!”
     • “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
   • MANIPULATIPN AND PROPAGANDA
     • Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
   • tECHNOLOGY, SURVEIILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP
     • Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

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