Explanation

The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion.It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair - but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.

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quotes (43)
Writer

George Orwell

Language

English

ISBN

9781846975769

Number of pages

368

Publisher

Birlinn

Category

1984 - George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” 
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” 
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” 
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.”
“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” 
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” 
“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.”
“If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones
“Sanity is not statistical.” 
“Where there is equality, there can be sanity.” 
“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” 
“Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.”
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”