1984

1984

1. THEMES

   • State repression
     • "power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together agian in new shapes of your own choosing."
     • isolation and alienation
       • "Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
     • "All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world on their followers."
   • Totalitarianism
     • "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
   • Manipulation and propaganda
     • "but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
   • Technology, Surveillance and Censorship
     • "BIg Brother is watching you."
     • "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."

2. MOTIFS

   • BIG BROTHER
     • "War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength."
   • Glass Paperweight
     • "there was a particular softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass."
   • Urban Decay
     • "in the halls... there is gritty dust and the smells of boiled cabbage."

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