Riana and Sam

 Wrote 1984 as his own personal message to society for freedom of expression  In writing 1984, showed how people would react under a totalitarian government

 Party manipulates everyone into being the same person  Only aware of certain “facts”  Everyone is like their robot

 Destroys all sense of identity  Everyone wears the same clothes, eats the same food, lives in the same apartments

 Brainwashed into another “clone”  Keeps him from showing his true identity  Any individual thought is borderline crime

Feelings

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“To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing was an instinctive reaction” Book 1

pg. 16 (iBook)  During 2 minutes Hate  Everyone was afraid to show any signs of personal thoughts  Never showed their true identity

Past and Future

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“ Who controls the past”, ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” Book 1

pg. 28 (iBook)  The Party slogan  Control all aspects of life  easily change facts from any point in time as if they never existed  When a person dies, it’s as if they never existed  No identity

Relationships

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“ You could not have friends nowadays, you had comrades

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Book 1

pg. 36  Party does not promote any sort of relationship  One can learn more about themselves by building a relationship with someone else  Can develop identity

Newspeak

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“You’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness, its useless shads of meaning” Book 1

pg. 39 (iBook)  Syme speaking to Winston  Newspeak = less words to memorize, all repeated/attached to suffixes and prefixes  Party is trying to eradicate individual thought by not giving people many words to use

Freedom

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“ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four

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Book 2

pg. 57 (iBook)  Winston writing in his diary  Simple math can be overruled by the Party  Believes that once we can believe this fact, we are free

Minority

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“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” Book 2

pg. 149 (iBook)  Winston thought, just because a person is different, and thinks differently to apparently everyone else they are not necessarily wrong.

 Thinking IS Identity.

 Led to his downfall

 Control of the people leads to control of their identity which leads to a mass of people unable to be their own person  They becomes clones of The Party  No individual thought, loss of themselves