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Mind Map by Sophie Breckill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sophie Breckill
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1984 Quotes
Manipulation
- "All that was needed was an unending
series of victories over your own
memory. "Reality control," they
called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink."
(1.3.18)
- "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." (1.3.18)
- Winston believes
that as long as a
person’s perception
(or memory) of the
truth can be
externally verified,
then even a lie can
become truth. Such
is the Party’s
method of control.
- Winston believes
that as long as a
person’s perception
(or memory) of the
truth can be
externally verified,
then even a lie can
become truth. Such
is the Party’s
method of control.
- "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." (1.3.18)
- "There was no knowing how much of this
legend was true and how much invented.
Winston could not even remember at what
date the Party itself had come into existence."
(1.3.22)
- "For how could you establish even
the most obvious fact when there
existed no record outside your own
memory?" (1.3.22)
- Without physical records
outside of his own memory,
Winston experiences great
trouble in trying to
remember the
commencement of the
Party’s rule.
- Without physical records
outside of his own memory,
Winston experiences great
trouble in trying to
remember the
commencement of the
Party’s rule.
- "For how could you establish even
the most obvious fact when there
existed no record outside your own
memory?" (1.3.22)
- "When one knew that any document was due for
destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper
lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of
the nearest memory hole and drop it in" (1.4.2)
- The Party seeks to control the
present by mandating the
destruction of all records of the
past through "memory holes."
- The Party seeks to control the
present by mandating the
destruction of all records of the
past through "memory holes."
- "The messages he had received
referred to articles or news items
which for one reason or another it
was thought necessary to alter, or, as
the official phrase had it, to rectify." (1.4.6)
- "All that was needed was to substitute for
the original promise a warning that it
would probably be necessary to reduce
the ration at some time in April." (1.4.6)
- Winston’s duties consist of editing
and rewriting history in the form
of various media in order to
conform and reinforce the Party’s
version of the past and present.
The Party refers to this task as
the "rectification" of records.
- Winston’s duties consist of editing
and rewriting history in the form
of various media in order to
conform and reinforce the Party’s
version of the past and present.
The Party refers to this task as
the "rectification" of records.
- "All that was needed was to substitute for
the original promise a warning that it
would probably be necessary to reduce
the ration at some time in April." (1.4.6)
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