SHORT QUICK ANALYSIS OF THESE QUOTES? only needs to be 5 sentences max.. just so i can understand them. please help me out! here are the quotes: 1. "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter, only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you – that would be the real betrayal" (Orwell 166) 2. "You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die... There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead" (Orwell 177).

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The first quote, spoken by Winston to Julia in George Orwell's novel 1984 , is referencing Big Brother's control over their lives. Winston is telling Julia that as long as they have control over their own feelings then they have not let Big Brother defeat them. He is stating...

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The first quote, spoken by Winston to Julia in George Orwell's novel 1984, is referencing Big Brother's control over their lives. Winston is telling Julia that as long as they have control over their own feelings then they have not let Big Brother defeat them. He is stating that it does not matter what they say, but what they feel. This is foreshadowing what happens later when Winston breaks.

Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm (UTC)