Documents: What country is Oceania at war with?
The command of the old despotisms was ‘Thou shalt not”.The command of the totalitarians was ‘Thou shalt”.Our command is ‘THOU ART”.#BigBrother
Documents: Ignorance is The Government’s Strongest Weapon Against People
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OFOLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISMbyEmmanuel GoldsteinWinston began reading:Chapter IIgnorance is Strength#BigBrother
Documents: Nowhere is Safe to Live or Love
We can come here once again,’ said Julia. ‘It’s generally safe to use any hide-out twice. But not for another month or two, of course.’#BigBrother
Documents: In Unity There is Strength
‘What time do you leave work?’‘Eighteen-thirty.’‘Where can we meet?’‘Victory Square, near the monument.’‘It’s full of telescreens.’‘It doesn’t matter if there’s a crowd.’#BigBrother
Documents: If there is hope,’ wrote Winston, ‘it lies in the proles.’
Under the spreading chestnut treeI sold you and you sold me:There lie they, and here lie weUnder the spreading chestnut tree.#BigBrother
Documents: You Will No More Understand Your Own Language
The proles are not human beings,’ he said carelessly. ‘By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer,…
Documents: Within the walls of Ashraf, ThoughtCrime “is” death
Winston dipped his into the ink and wrote:To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do…
Documents: You know who the Enemy of the People is
O’Brien glanced at his wristwatch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over. The next…
Documents: Let’s Prepare for the Two decades Hate
Winston’s mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word DOUBLETHINK. For the first time the…
Documents: War is Peace
In a society that creates men who work like machines, and makes machines that act like men, Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape…