Choose one of the quotes from the novel 1984 and respond to it by relating it to today's world.
- Big Brother is watching you.
- Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- Double-think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.