George Orwells 1984

Antithesis

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

MINISTRY OF PEACE - Concerns itself with war
MINISTRY OF TRUTH - Lies
MINISTRY OF LOVE - 'Tortures and eventually kills anybody whom it deams a threat'
MINISTRY OF PLENTY - Starvation

'WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE
WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST'

The Telescreens 'BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU'

'An enormous face... the face of a man about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features'
(TOWER BLOCK)'on each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall, 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 beneath it ran.'

This image staring from the telescreens and posters all over this distopian land is believed to be the likeness of Stalin. 'Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.'

'The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that winston made... would be picked up by it, moreover so long as he remained in the field of vision... he could be seen aswell.'

'Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed - no escape.nothing was yours except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Speaking without speaking

'He was a lonely ghost, uttering a truth nobody would ever hear'

Room 101

'You asked me once what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in room 101 is the worst thing in the world'

Orwell,G.(2003)1984.London:Penguin books
Pages:3,4,19,32,118,246