Literary Devices and Book Quotes Along with It Frances Coronel Block 3 Hon Eng 11 1984

LITERARY DEVICE 1: STYLE OF WRITING 1. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act (2.2). 2. She had had her first love-affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest (2.3). 3. One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee, of whom Syme had been one. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before nothing had been crossed out but it was one name shorter. It was enough. Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed (2.5). 4. It might be twenty-four hours since he had eaten, it might be thirty-six. He still did not know, probably never would know, whether it had been morning or evening when they arrested him. Since he was arrested he had not been fed(3.1). 5. He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother (3.6). LITERARY DEVICE 2: SYMBOLISM (along with imagery/allegory) 1. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran (1.1). 2. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Partys purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching (1.3). 3. Winston was dreaming of his mother (1.3). 4. And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a childs spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary (1.4). 5. I do voluntary work three evenings a week for the Junior Anti-Sex League. Hours and hours Ive spent pasting their bloody rot all over London. I always carry one end of a banner in the processions. I always look cheerful and I never shirk anything. Always yell with the crowd, thats what I say. Its the only way to be safe (2.2).

LITERARY DEVICE 3: ALLUSIONS 1. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word Shakespeare on his lips (1.3). 2.By 2050 earlier, probably all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron theyll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.. (1.5). 3. Even now, at long intervals, his cartoons were appearing in The Times. They were simply an imitation of his earlier manner, and curiously lifeless and unconvincing (1.7). 4. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar (1.4). 5. A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of The Times, with the page turned down at the chess problem. Then, seeing that Winstons glass was empty, he brought the gin bottle and filled it. There was no need to give orders. They knew his habits (3.6). LITERARY DEVICE 4: TRAGEDY 1. Anticipation: For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother (1.1). 2. Dream: Meanwhile I shall send you a copy of THE BOOK even OBrien, Winston noticed, seemed to pronounce the words as though they were in italics Goldsteins book, you understand, as soon as possible (2.8) 3. Frustration: He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood HOW; he did not understand WHY. Chapter I, like Chapter III, had not actually told him anything that he did not know, it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already (2.9) 4. Nightmare: There are three stages in your reintegration, said OBrien. There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance. It is time for you to enter upon the second stage.(3.3). 5. Destruction: But they could get inside you. What happens to you here is FOR EVER, OBrien had said. That was a true word. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out (3.6).