1984 Research Paper Notecards

\"Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black mustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own. Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC.\" (1.1.4)

\"Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.\" (1.1.6)

\"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 came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grams to twenty.\" (1.2.31)

\"On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns - after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian warcriminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces - at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.\" (2.9.3)

\"'We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?'\" (3.2.99, O'Brien)

\"It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police\"(224)

\"When 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\"(165)

\"The rocket bombs which fell daily on London, were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'Just ti keep people frightened'\"(153)

\"Merely it became known, with extreme sadness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy\"(180)

\"The Thought Police hunts the down and destroys them almost as fast as we can produce them,\"(177)