In Soviet times, 1984 went into quotes: It was a novel about our life. The New Times re -read it with a fresh eye
“On each site, the same face looked from the wall. The portrait was made in such a way that wherever you got, your eyes did not let you go. Big Brother looks at you, ”the signature read.”
Orwell (Orwell) George (real name - Eric Arthur Blair), (1903–1950) - was born in Bombay, in the family of an English colonial official from an impoverished aristocratic family. Graduated from College of Outno (1921). Member of the Civil War in Spain on the side of the Republicans. The author of many books, he entered in the anthology of the world classics, primarily with the pamphlet Animal Farm (“Cross Courtyard”) (1945) and the novel “1984” (Nineteen Eighty-Four), which was written under the impression of the Antiutopia Roman “We” Evgeny Zamyatin. “1984” was released in London in June 1949.
“Dissatisfaction generated by a meager and joyless life is systematically directed to external objects and dispersed with the help of techniques such as a two -minute of hatred.”
“And if the facts say the opposite, then the facts must be changed. So the story continuously corresponds. This daily cleaning of the past, which is occupied by the Ministry of Truth, is also necessary for the stability of the regime as repressive and espionage work performed by the Ministry of Love. ”
“Tinimony means the ability to simultaneously adhere to two opposite beliefs. The party intellectual knows which way to change its memories; Therefore, it realizes that it fractions with reality; However, with the help of doubles, he assures himself that reality has remained inviolable. ”
"The Ministry of Love was inspired by fear."
“The Ministry of Pravda-on the New End of the Mini-Raje-was strikingly different from everything that lay around. This gigantic pyramidal building, shining with white concrete, rose, a ledge at a ledge, to a three -hundred -meter height. From his window, Winston could read three party slogans written in an elegant font on a white facade:
"War is a world"
"Freedom is slavery"
"Ignorance is power"
“What the big brother says, no one heard. Just a few words of encouragement, such as those that the leader pronounces in the thunder of the battle, let go in the slurred, they inspire confidence in the fact that they were said. ”
“They began to jump around him, shouting:“ Transfer! ”,“ The Tenturer! ” - And the girl imitated every movement of the boy. It was a little scared, like fuss of tiger, who will soon grow into cannibals. ”
“And somewhere, it is not clear where, anonymously, there was a leading brain that has checked the political line, according to which one part of the past had to be preserved, the other was falsified, and the third was destroyed without a trace.”
"Thought -handing does not entail death: thought of thought is death"
“The enemy of the people Emmanuel Goldstein ... The apostate and the renegade, once, a long time ago (so long ago that no one had already remembered when) was one of the party leaders, almost equal to the very big brother, and then took the path of the counter-revolution, was sentenced to death and mysteriously fled, disappeared.”
“Pages, broken along the edges, opened easily - the book visited many hands. On the title sheet it was: Emmanuel Goldstein Theory and practice of oligarchic collectivism. "
“The gaps, usually not interested in the war, became, as it happened periodically with them, a seizure of patriotism.”
“For a long time, the highests seem to hold power firmly, but sooner or later the moment comes when they lose either faith in themselves, or the ability to manage effectively, or both. Then they are overthrown by the middle ones, who attracted the lower ones to their side by playing the role of freedom and justice fighters. Having achieved their goal, they pushing the lower into their former slave position and themselves become the highest. ”
“Although Goldstein hated and despised everything, although every day, a thousand times a day, his teachings were refuted, smashed, destroyed, ridiculed as a miserable nonsense, his influence was not at all decreased. All the time there were new simpletons, only waiting for him to seduce them. It was not even a day without the fact that the thoughts of thoughts did not expose the spies and pests acting on his direction. He commanded a huge underground army, a network of conspirators, striving to overthrow the system. It was assumed that it is called "Brotherhood". "
“Winston stood at the“ quiet ”rack in front of the television screen: there was already a sinewy, relatively young woman in a short skirt and gymnastic shoes. - Bending hands and sipping! She cried out. - We do in the account. And one, two, three, four! And one, two, three, four! More fun, comrades, more than life! And one, two, three, four! And one, two, three, four! ”
“And usually people who caused the party’s displeasure simply disappeared, and no one else heard about them. And it was useless to guess what happened to them. ”
“This morning, an uncontrollable wave of spontaneous demonstrations swept throughout Oceania. The workers left the plants and institutions and walked through the streets with banners, expressing gratitude to the big brother for a new happy life under his wise leadership. ”
“The ministry provided not only the various needs of the parties, but also produced similar products - a variety below - for the requirements of the proletarians. Low -grade newspapers were made here, which did not contain anything but sports, criminal chronicle and astrology, pampering five -cention names, scoring films, sensitive songs composed in a purely mechanical way - on a special kind of kaleidoscope, the so -called version of the version. ”
“Today, for example, in 1984 (if the year is 1984), Oceania fought with Eurasia and was in an alliance with the abst theirs. Neither publicly nor eyes on the eye no one mentioned that in the past the relations of the three powers could be different. Winston knew very well that in fact, oceania was fighting with Eurasia and was friends with stopping for only four years. But he knew stealthily - and only because his memory was not fully controlled. Officially, an ally and enemy never changed. Oceania is fighting with Eurasia, therefore, Oceania always fought with Eurasia. The current enemy has always embodied the absolute evil, which means that in neither in the past nor in the future the agreement with him is unthinkable. ”
“But everything is fine, now everything is fine, the struggle is over. He won over himself. He loved a big brother. "
“The more powerful the party will be, the more intolerant it will be; The weaker the resistance, the harsher the despotism. "
“Freedom is an opportunity to say that twice two to four. If this is allowed, everything else follows "
“A metal voice from the reproducers rattled about endless atrocities, massacres, evictions of entire peoples, robberies, violence, torture of prisoners of war, bombing of the civilian population, propaganda fictions, arrogant aggressions, violated agreements. Listening to him, after a minute, not to believe, and after two it was almost impossible to get hungry. ”
“The party card is not supposed to have any personal feelings and no breaks in enthusiasm. He must live in constant frenzy - hating external enemies and internal traitors, triumphing another victory, bowing to the power and wisdom of the party. ”
“In the conquest of the world, those who know that it is impossible believe. This is a bizarre adhesion of opposites - knowledge with ignorance, cynicity with fanaticism is one of the distinctive features of our society. ”
