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Quotes
"War is PEACE Freedom is SLAVERY Ignorance is STRENGTH"


 * Official Slogan for party
 * on white pyramid at Ministry of Truth
 * 1st idea of "double think"
 * mind control

"Big Brother is watching You"


 * Seen on all posters & pictures

"Who controls the past controls the future.  Who controls the present controls the past"
 * another party slogan
 * example of "false history to break down physcological independence of its subjects"

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever"
 * O'brien to Winston @ Ministry of Love while "healing" Winston
 * Boot=INGSOC & face= all humanity

Characters

 * 1) Winston Smith
 * ​protagonist
 * hates totalitarian control
 * curious/inquirer about party
 * rebellious
 * hates rats

2. Big Brother
 * antagonist
 * "Ruler" of Oceania
 * reference to Soviet Dictator: Joseph Stalin
 * Image of him everywhere creating love & fear of totalitarian state

3. Julia
 * Winston's lover
 * Fiction Department @ Ministry of Truth
 * optimistic
 * rebellious (personal way)
 * Jr. Anti Sex League

4. O'Brien 5. Emmanuel Goldstein
 * Inner Party Member
 * "seems" to be in "Brotherhood"
 * abuses/brainwashes Winston with rats
 * mysterious
 * Icon @ Two Minutes Hate
 * "legendary leader" of Brotherhood
 * Jewish b/c of last name

Color Symbols

 * Ministry of Truth= WHITE pyramid
 * Party Members wore BLUE overalls
 * Inner Party Members wore BLACK overalls
 * Julia wore RED sash for Junior Anti Sex League
 * RED&BLACK diary

Objects
1) Glass Paperweight & St. Clements Church 2) Telescreens 3) Red-Armed Prole Woman
 * Winstons attempt to reconnect w/ the past
 * Thought Police crush it when arresting Winston
 * Party control no basis in "reality"
 * Fragil world of Julia & Winston
 * constant monitory of people
 * for propaganda
 * how totalitarianism gov. abuses technology
 * its dimmed but never shut off
 * represents Winston one hope for long-term future
 * proles rebelling against party in furtre
 * producing new generation of ones who will also rebel against the Party