Quotes

=**Quotes!**= by Katy


 * "Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash –"Bad news coming, thought Winston. And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners." **

===**This quote shows the importance that the Party puts on war. **===


 * "Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid, which appeared to take everyone by surprise. Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester. He did not remember the raid itself." **

==**This quote is important for you to understand the sort of world that Winston lives in. It is a time of constant war. **==


 * "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called." **

The people of Oceania are constantly under surveillance, even the smallest movement can give you away. This quote also shows how controlling the Party is, not even the peoples expression are their own.

"His eyes re-focused on the page. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action. And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals

 DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER  DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER  DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER  DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER  DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER "

This was one of Winston's first act of rebellion.

"Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?."

This book also deals a lot with memory. People in this time and society are not able to rely on memory to know about the past. The Party has taken the papers from the past and re-printed them to say only what they want it to say. Winston isn't sure of what really is truth, and there is no way of finding out.