Introductory statement-
Nineteen Eighty-four The Tempest
Paradoxical that most novels about the future are narrated in the past tense, like nineteen eighty-four.
He used the narrative past tense to give his picture of the future a novelistic illusion of reality. By
setting his story only thirty-odd years ahead he was perhaps aiming to impress his readers with the
imminence of the political tyranny he envisaged. But there is also a grim humour in the
anagrammatic mirroring of the date of the novel completion (1948) in its title.
From Prospero’s magic to O’Brien’s deception the
Nineteen Eighty-four Persepolis
It is highly doubtful if Marji owned Orwell’s Nineteen eighty-four on her well-stacked bookshelf, but if
she did she would find herself in orwell.
Persepolis The Tempest
Quotations-
1984-
"The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."
Perhaps one did not want to be loved as much as ---------------------------------------.
My mind -------------------------------- your mind.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows”
Until they conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become
conscious.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and ---------------------, and for the great bulk of mankind,
------------------------- is better.”
We cannot act ---------------------. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual,
generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.
While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you
were not ------------------------------------.
One does not establish a ------------------------ in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution
in order to establish the ------------------------------------.
"I understand how: I do not why"
'We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside -------------------------.
, The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'
To die -----------------------------------, that was freedom.
Nothing was your own except the ------------------------------------.”
“Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and
friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted
---------------------of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies, and nosers-out of
--------------------------------."
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in ------------------ or ------------------- as
well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the
world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's
existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never
learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day
-----------------------------."
"Sanity is not statistical."
Orwell makes the choice to write 1984 in third person limited point f view instead of first person. Even
with one person believing in something that could be right.
Persepolis-
“As long as there is oil in the middle east we will never have peace.”
My father was not a hero, my mother wanted to kill people…so I went out to play in the street.
“Our family memory must not be lost. Even if it’s not easy for you, even if you don’t understand it all.”
“Our country has always known war and martyrs, so, like my father said: ‘When a big wave comes, lower
your head and let it pass!’”
“If [people] hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to
their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance…Always keep your dignity
and be true to yourself.”
I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins. […] I was playing a game
by somebody else's rules. (
It had been so long since I'd been able to talk to someone without having to explain my
culture.
Nineteen Eighty-four The Tempest
Paradoxical that most novels about the future are narrated in the past tense, like nineteen eighty-four.
He used the narrative past tense to give his picture of the future a novelistic illusion of reality. By
setting his story only thirty-odd years ahead he was perhaps aiming to impress his readers with the
imminence of the political tyranny he envisaged. But there is also a grim humour in the
anagrammatic mirroring of the date of the novel completion (1948) in its title.
From Prospero’s magic to O’Brien’s deception the
Nineteen Eighty-four Persepolis
It is highly doubtful if Marji owned Orwell’s Nineteen eighty-four on her well-stacked bookshelf, but if
she did she would find herself in orwell.
Persepolis The Tempest
Quotations-
1984-
"The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."
Perhaps one did not want to be loved as much as ---------------------------------------.
My mind -------------------------------- your mind.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows”
Until they conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become
conscious.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and ---------------------, and for the great bulk of mankind,
------------------------- is better.”
We cannot act ---------------------. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual,
generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.
While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you
were not ------------------------------------.
One does not establish a ------------------------ in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution
in order to establish the ------------------------------------.
"I understand how: I do not why"
'We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside -------------------------.
, The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'
To die -----------------------------------, that was freedom.
Nothing was your own except the ------------------------------------.”
“Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and
friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted
---------------------of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies, and nosers-out of
--------------------------------."
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in ------------------ or ------------------- as
well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the
world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's
existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never
learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day
-----------------------------."
"Sanity is not statistical."
Orwell makes the choice to write 1984 in third person limited point f view instead of first person. Even
with one person believing in something that could be right.
Persepolis-
“As long as there is oil in the middle east we will never have peace.”
My father was not a hero, my mother wanted to kill people…so I went out to play in the street.
“Our family memory must not be lost. Even if it’s not easy for you, even if you don’t understand it all.”
“Our country has always known war and martyrs, so, like my father said: ‘When a big wave comes, lower
your head and let it pass!’”
“If [people] hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to
their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance…Always keep your dignity
and be true to yourself.”
I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins. […] I was playing a game
by somebody else's rules. (
It had been so long since I'd been able to talk to someone without having to explain my
culture.
