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"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete...-all had to be rectified at lightning speed."

(pg. 182)

Hailey

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"She had no memories of anything before the early Sixties, and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disapeared when she was eight.

(p.108)

Abby

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"They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them."

(Pg 166)

Carriella

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"We are not human."

(Pg 165)

Carriella

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"If they could make me stop loving you -that would be the real betrayal."

(page 166)

Hailey

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"The theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled."

(pg.109)

Tessa

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"The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside." (p.165)

Hailey

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Big brother is a conscious that the government wants people to have He represents the government always having an eye on the people. Big Brother is everywhere and they are constantly reminded of that.

We feel that the people of Oceania are influenced by Big Brother because the name seems friendly. Just like when you have a "big brother or sister," you look up to them and trust their option because you think they have your best interest in mind. When really, the people are so psychologically manipulated they do not realize his mistakes or his over-controlling tendencies.

"It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features."

(pg. 1-2)

"The black-mustachio'd face gazed down from every commanding corner."

(pg. 2)

"There was one in the house front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked into Winson's own."

(pg. 2)

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"To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction." (pg. 18)

Tessa

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"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obligated to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in." (pg. 16)

Tessa

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"It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption read beneath it." (p.1,2)

Carriella

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"You had to live, did live, from habit that became instinct" (p.3)

Carriella

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"His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eye could give you away." (p.36)

Abby

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"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." (p.28)

Abby