Endurance and powerlessness quotes

Question 1

Endurance of the human spirit

Answer 1

• ‘keep on living, in any form’
• ‘Give me children or else I die’
• ‘I am, I am. I am, still’

Question 2

Outward conformance

Answer 2

Tourist chapter

Question 3

Ease of adaptation to the regime

Answer 3

• ‘the Pornomarts were shut… Feels on Wheels vans… We all knew what a nuisance they’d been’
• ‘no children walked to school anymore, there had been too many disappearances’

Question 4

Imposition of changes

Answer 4

• gradual, then extreme
• when changes become extreme, O doesn’t protest and focuses on own survival in contrast to her mother’s activism
• is human nature too acquiescent/selfish?
• ease and speed of adaption as a form of adaptation
• Orwell: frustration with proles - easily controlled but source of hope (O’s own frustrations with working class response to socialism)