Individual & Collective Experiences
Winston's private act of writing in a diary is classed by the Party as this infringement of independent thinking.
Thoughtcrime
This emotion is deliberately manufactured and redirected by the Party to unify the population against Goldstein and the enemy state.
Hatred
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" are all examples of this figurative device that joins contradictory ideas.
Oxymoron - paradox
Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning about this political system, in which a state demands total control over public and private life.
Totalitarianism
The recurring phrase "Big Brother is watching you" and the telescreens function as this technique: a repeated image or idea.
Motif
Winston believes that "nothing was your own" except the few cubic centimetres inside this part of the body.
"your skull".
Winston buys this fragile object, containing a piece of coral, from Mr Charrington's shop as a symbol of the beautiful, lost past.
Glass paperweight.
This term names the Party's mental discipline of holding two contradictory beliefs at once and accepting both.
Doublethink
Orwell's earlier 1945 novella, an allegory of Soviet betrayal of revolution, is this text.
Animal Farm
The novel is structured in three parts. Part Three focuses on this experience.
imprisonment, torture and re-education (Ministry of Love)
The Party creates a shared, collective emotional experience each day through this ritual, directed at the face of Emmanuel Goldstein.
Two Minutes Hate
Winston's cry "Do it to Julia!" in Room 101 shows the Party destroying this human quality, which he had promised never to give up.
Love / loyalty (betrayal)
The Ministry of Love is paradoxical because it is the place where this happens to dissidents.
Re-education (torture)
Big Brother's cult of personality was partly inspired by this real Soviet leader.
Joseph Stalin
The narrative is restricted to Winston's thoughts and perceptions, an example of which narrative perspective?
limited third-person narration (close focalisation)
This neighbour is denounced to the Thought Police by his own daughter, showing how the Party turns the family unit against itself.
Tom Parsons
O'Brien reveals that the Party's true motivation is this.
"Power is not a means; it is an end."
The pure desire for power (cruelty).
In Room 101, O'Brien holds up four fingers and insists Winston see this number, showing the Party can dictate objective reality.
5
Orwell's firsthand experience of propaganda in this conflict, recorded in Homage to Catalonia, shaped the Ministry of Truth.
Spanish Civil War
The Appendix on Newspeak is written in the past tense, which suggests this about the Party's fate.
that the Party's regime eventually ended (an ambiguous hope).
Winston writes "If there is hope, it lies in" this group, the working-class majority of Oceania's population who are largely left unwatched.
The Proles
The novel ends with Winston's "victory over himself" in the Chestnut Tree Café, which is deeply ironic because it represents this.
psychological surrender / defeat
Winston writes in his diary that "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is _____".
Death
The three perpetually warring superpowers, mirroring the emerging Cold War, are Oceania, Eurasia and this third power.
Eastasia
"A boot stamping on a human face — for ever" is this figurative device, depicting violent oppression.
Visual imagery / Metaphor