Setting

Physical Quotes

• “Their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy 1984 garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air” (page 5-6)
• He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses. (pg. 118)
• “An old, closebitten pasture, with a foot- path wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair.” (Page 155)

Emotional Quotes

• “A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.” (Page 5)
• Winston picked his way up the lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools of gold wherever the boughs parted. Under the trees to the left of him the ground was misty with bluebells. (Page 148)
• “It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.” (P.141)