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"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past"

Winston's job in the Department of Truth
-Ties with Individualism: Winston is deceiving himself and conforming to party against his will.

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Forgotten history and manipulation of reality

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Forgotten history and manipulation of reality

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The Ministry of Truth is responsible for altering any document that may not align with the Party's beliefs

Julia suggests that the war against Eastasia/Eurasia is made up by the Party.

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"The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labor camp."

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"Not to let one's feelings appear in one's face was a habit that acquired the status of an instinct"

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p.152 it seemed natural to Julia that Winston should believe O'Brien to be trustworthy on the strength of a single flash of the eyes

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"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

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Lottery "It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive...the prizes were largely imaginary." [p. 85]

Porn "...Spanking Stories or One Night in a Girls' School, to be bought furtively by proletariat youth..."
[p. 130]

False freedom and alleged protection against an enemy
"The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened.'"
[p. 153]

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Government enforcement of new rules to have people fall in line.

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"She had clasped her arms around her neck, she was calling him darling, precious one, loved one." (page 120)

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"In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in."

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Constant surveillance and fear

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p.156 The world-view of the party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it...They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them. By lack of understanding they remained sane.

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(While writing in diary)

"His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals-- DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER."

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"But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred." P(126)

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"His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away."

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" 'Did you go see the prisoners hanged yesterday?' said Syme.

'I was working,' said Winston indifferently. 'I shall see it on the flicks, I suppose.'

'A very inadequate substitute,' said Syme."

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Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink-Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory

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"How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average humans being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different."

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"But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory. It was enough to blow the Party to atoms."

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Self-Identity & Herd Mentality (Page 82)

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Self-Identity & Herd Mentality (Page 82)

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On impulse he had turned away from the bus stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself along unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going

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It was a heavy lump of glass, curved on one side, flat on the other..."It's a beautiful thing," said Winston

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"Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?"
"Yes, perfectly."
"I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."

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The ideal mind of members of the Party is ignorant and malleable: Party slogan "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" shows this (pg. 7)

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"They did not discuss the possibility of getting married. I was too remote to be worth thinking about."

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The Two Minutes Hate (pg. 14-18) is an event that might have made up the character of Goldstein and utilizes menacing images of the Eurasian army to distort the perceived reality of Party members

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"I'm due back at nineteen-thirty. I've got to put in two hours for the Junior Anti-Sex League, handing out leaflets, or something. Isn't it bloody?"

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"The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt a right to." (p139)

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"During the month that he had know her the nature of his desire for her had changed."

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"He wished that they were a married couple of ten years' standing. He wished that they were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now, but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and ends for the household." (p139)

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He wished that they were a married couple of ten years' standing. He wished that he were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now, but openly and without fear...

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"'We have won the battle for production! …standard of living has risen by no less than twenty per cent over the past year…'" (pg. 51)
"In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had underclothes that were not full of holes,… houses falling to pieces, bread dark colored, tea a rarity…" (pg. 52)

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"Until now he had been too much ashamed out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle." (p143)

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real coffee, real sugar, proper white bread, and real tea

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p.55 There was something Syme lacked: discretion, aloofness, a sort of saving stupidity...Syme's fate was not difficult to foresee. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.

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"His mother's memory tore at his heard because she had dies loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable."

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"He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside." (p143)

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"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it."

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"The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice.  Now that [Winston and Julia] had a secure hiding place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently..."
P. 124 (hard cover)

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Growth of power from English Socialism to omnipotent authoritarian state.

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"If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not to near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round–if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words. "(p.110)

"It was not safe to go near her until some more people had accumulated. There were telescreens all round the pediment."(p.114)

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"Yes, dear, scent too. And do you know what I'm going to do next? I'm going to get hold of a real woman's frock from somewhere and wear it instead of these bloody trousers. I'll wear silk stockings and high-heeled shoes! In this room I'm going to be a woman, not a Party comrade."

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"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal." (p147)

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Is at War with Eurasia, and Always Has Been at War with Eurasia

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Is at War with Eurasia, and Always Has Been at War with Eurasia

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"It was rather more of a shock to him… that she did not remember that Oceania, four years ago, had been at war with Eastasia and at at peace with Eurasia." (pg. 154)

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Two Minutes Hate, Hate Week, Hate Song, rocket bombs, Anti Sex Society, Party demonstrations

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"I don't imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there--small groups of people banding together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generation can carry on where we left off."

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"The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil... There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies."

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Party inventing airplanes

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"...the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another."

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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."

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p.167 the inner heart remained impregnable

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"Its's one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything--anything---but they can't make you believe it. They can't get it inside you." (pg. 166)

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"Once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference." [p. 165]
- Connects to Power of government

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They could lay bare in the utmost detail every thing that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.