“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

This is a work of fiction. We read it under the teacher’s guidance. We discuss various themes thoroughly in class. This novel serves as a warning of the absence of individuality and the dangers of totalitarianism. It is important to be able to think for yourself. Although this novel has dark themes, even at a young age, the concepts were well accepted by all.

Our family has talked about this book many times at dinner table. We shared our opinions and sometimes debated what an ideal society should be, and what we would do if we were Winston, the main character in the book

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them

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.

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”