1984 (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
Exam code: H472
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Fill in the gap: "an ＿＿＿＿＿ voice behind them"
Part 2, Chapter 10
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Fill in the gap: "an ＿＿＿＿＿ voice behind them"
Part 2, Chapter 10
Answer: "an iron voice behind them"
Fill in the gap: "The Party seeks ＿＿＿＿＿ entirely for its own sake"
O'Brien, Part 3, Chapter 3
Answer: "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake"
Fill in the gap: "The more ＿＿＿＿＿ you've had, the more I love you"
Winston, Part 2, Chapter 2
Answer: "The more men you've had, the more I love you"
Fill in the gap: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your ＿＿＿＿＿"
Part 1, Chapter 2
Answer: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull"
Key quote: "Who controls the past, ran the Party slogan, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past"
Part 1, Chapter 3
Analysis
The chiasmus loops back on itself so the Party owns time at both ends. Controlling history becomes the same thing as controlling the future.
Key quote: "The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men"
O'Brien, Part 3, Chapter 3
Analysis
O'Brien defines power as domination of people rather than ownership of things. The contrast makes cruelty the purpose of the system, not a side effect.
Key quote: "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"
O'Brien, Part 3, Chapter 3
Analysis
Obedience alone is not enough, because the Party wants the mind rebuilt to its own design. The violent verbs make control sound physical rather than political.
Key quote: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?"
Syme, Part 1, Chapter 5
Analysis
Syme explains that taking away words also takes away the thoughts they carry. Shrinking language makes rebellion unthinkable, so individuality disappears with it.
Key quote: "And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty"
Part 2, Chapter 9
Analysis
Technology in Oceania only advances where it can reduce freedom. Progress is measured by how well an invention serves the Party.
Key quote: "They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you"
Julia, Part 2, Chapter 7
Analysis
Julia believes the Party can control behaviour but never belief. Room 101 exists to prove her wrong, so private love turns out to be exactly what the state can reach.
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