Themes Flashcards
(7 cards)
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to language and control?
1984
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
- Don’t you see that the whole aim in Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
- All history was a palimpsest.
AHT
- The bible is key locked out… so the servants wouldn’t steal it.
- Blessed be the fruit… may the lord open.
- Now that she’s the official mouthpiece of the regime, she no longer poses any threat to us.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to surveillance and fear?
1984
- Big Brother is watching you.
- Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.
- We are the dead
AHT
- Under his eye.
- The eyes are everywhere
- There’s always something watching and listening.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to truth and historical manipulation?
1984
- Who controls the past controls the future.
- Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four.
- The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten.
AHT
- When we think of the past.. we want to believe it was like that.
- We we’re the people who were not in the papers.
- Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to gender and power?
1984
- The sex instinct creates a world of its own which is outside the party’s control.
- She has two names for it. One was making love, the other was doing it.
- The aim of the party was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act.
AHT
- We are containers, it’s only the insides of our bodies that are important.
- I avoid looking down at my body.. it determines me so completely.
- Better never means better for everyone.. it always means worse for some.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to control of language & truth and propaganda?
1984
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- The past was erased, erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
AHT
- Nolite te bastardes carbornundorum.
- When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.
- We we’re the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of the print.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to surveillance and psychological control?
1984
- Big Brother is watching you.
- Norhing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
- You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.
AHT
- Under his eye.
- The ceremony is supposed to be impersonal.
- A rat in a maze is free to go anywherte, as long as it stays inside the maze.
What are 3 quotes for both novels that link to resistance, individuality and rebellion?
1984
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever.
- We are the dead.
- Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four.
AHT
- I intend to survive.
- My name isn’t offered, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden.
- They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to.
