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Loyalty quotes in 1984

Book 1, Chapter 2

He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequences of every human action are included in the deed itself. He wrote:

Thoughtcrime does not entail decease: thoughtcrime IS death. (ane.2.42-43)

The Party takes loyalty seriously, and does not tolerate whatsoever acts of subversion - fifty-fifty if they are mere thoughts.

Book 1, Chapter 5

The Proles

"That's a first-rate training they give them in the Spies present - better than in my day, fifty-fifty. What d'you lot think's the latest thing they've served them out with? Ear trumpets for listening through keyholes! My lilliputian girl brought one home the other night - tried it out on our sitting-room door, and reckoned she could hear twice equally much as with her ear to the hole." (1.v.67, Parson)

Its accomplish not limited to technology, the Party employs children confronting their parents as another way of beliefs surveillance. There is simply no loyalty to speak of.

Book one, Affiliate 6

Guiltlessness was as deep ingrained in them as Party loyalty. By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them. (i.6.xvi)

From an early age, Party members are taught to evidence loyalty to the Party past remaining chaste.

Book 2, Affiliate iii

Julia

Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner pregnant of the Political party'due south sexual puritanism. It was non just that the sex activity instinct created a world of its ain which was outside the Party'south control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable considering information technology could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship. The way she put it was: "When you make love you're using up energy; and subsequently you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear yous to feel similar that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If yous're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited most Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Detest and all the rest of their bloody rot?"

That was very true, he idea. There was a directly intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members exist kept at the correct pitch, except past bottling down some powerful instinct and using it every bit a driving strength? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned information technology to business relationship. They had played a similar fox with the instinct of parenthood. The family unit could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to exist fond of their children, in almost the former-fashioned way. The children, on the other mitt, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and study their deviations. The family had become in consequence an extension of the Idea Police force. Information technology was a device by means of which everyone could exist surrounded night and 24-hour interval by informers who knew him intimately. (two.iii.25-27)

Julia teaches Winston almost her musings on the dangerous effects of sex on loyalty to the Party: The Party not only seeks to sever private loyalties in encouraging chastity, just also to control its constituents' use of fourth dimension by advocating the abolition of sexual practice entirely.

Book 2, Chapter 4

Winston Smith

For a moment he was violently aroused. During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed. At the beginning there had been little truthful sensuality in information technology. Their first love-making had been simply an human activity of the will. But after the second time it was different. The odour of her hair, the sense of taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all circular him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted just felt that he had a right to. When she said that she could non come, he had the feeling that she was cheating him. Simply just at this moment the oversupply pressed them together and their hands accidentally met. She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection. It struck him that when one lived with a woman this particular disappointment must exist a normal, recurring issue; and a deep tenderness, such as he had not felt for her earlier, all of a sudden took hold of him. He wished that they were a married couple of ten years' standing. He wished that he were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing at present but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and ownership odds and ends for the household. He wished above all that they had some identify where they could be alone together without feeling the obligation to brand honey every time they met. (two.4.13)

Winston speedily falls in dear with Julia; from here, the feared bond of private loyalty is created.

Book 2, Chapter 7

Julia

"The ane affair that matters is that we shouldn't beguile one another, although even that can't brand the slightest difference."

[...]

"Confession is not expose. What you say or do doesn't thing, only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal."

She thought is over. "They tin't do that," she said finally. "It'southward the i thing they can't practise. They tin brand yous say anything - anything - but they can't make yous believe it. They tin can't get inside you." (ii.vii.26-29, Winston and Julia)

Winston and Julia discuss betrayal, and resolve that their shared loyalty to each other shall triumph.

Winston Smith

And nonetheless to the people of simply two generations ago this would not take seemed all-of import, because they were not attempting to alter history. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying human being, could take value in itself. Proles, information technology suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a political party or a state or an thought, they were loyal to one another. For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them only equally an inert force which would 1 24-hour interval leap to life and regenerate the earth. The proles had stayed man. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort. (2.vii.19)

Winston realizes that the proles, like people of the past, agree dear to their hearts loyalty to persons - not a party or a country or an idea. That, he believes, is true and natural freedom.

When his male parent disappeared, his female parent did not evidence any surprise or whatsoever tearing grief, but a sudden alter came over her. She seemed to take become completely spiritless. It was evident even to Winston that she was waiting for something that she knew must happen. (two.vii.9)

Winston tells the tale of his mother'due south low over his father's disappearance - an example of loyalty severed past the Party.

[...] yet she had possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could non exist altered from outside. Information technology would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, y'all still gave him love. (2.7.19)

Winston describes his female parent as loving - an instance of true, unadulterated private loyalty.

He never saw his mother again. When he came back his mother had disappeared. This was already becoming normal at that time. Cypher was gone from the room except his mother and his sister. They had not taken any clothes, not even his mother's overcoat. To this day he did non know with any certainty that his mother was expressionless. It was perfectly possible that she had merely been sent to a forced-labor military camp. As for his sister, she might have been removed, like Winston himself, to one of the colonies for homeless children [...]. (2.7.14)

It is common for the Party to movement family members away from each other and so that private loyalties may be severed in a timely way.

Book 2, Chapter 8

O'Brien

"Y'all are prepared to give your lives?"

"Yes."

"You are prepared to commit murder?"

"Yes."

"To commit acts of demolition which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people?"

"Aye."

"To beguile your country to strange powers?"

"Yep."

"Yous are prepared to crook, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases - to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power of the Party?"

"Yes."

"If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child's confront - are you prepared to practice that?"

"Aye."

"You are prepared to lose your identity and alive out the residue of your life as a waiter or a dock-worker?"

"Yes."

"Yous are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we society you to do so?"

"Yes."

"You are prepared, the 2 of yous, to separate and never see one another over again?"

"No!" broke in Julia. (ii.8.28-45, O'Brien, Winston, and Julia)

Winston and Julia pledge selfless loyalty to the Brotherhood. While Winston seems prepared to give information technology all up, including his love for Julia, Julia presently is reluctant.

"We believe that in that location is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it. Nosotros desire to join it and piece of work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We discount in the principles of Ingsoc. Nosotros are idea-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If y'all want united states of america to incriminate ourselves in any other way, nosotros are ready." (ii.8.16)

Winston and Julia profess their devotion and loyalty to the ultimate strength of rebellion - the Brotherhood.

Volume 2, Affiliate ix

A Party fellow member is expected to accept no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to alive in a continuous frenzy of hatred of strange enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and cocky-abasement earlier the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced past his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance past his early caused inner discipline. (2.9.61, Goldstein'southward Manifesto)

A Party member's duties include ensuring that he has no private loyalties or enthusiasms, in addition to ensuring that he learns ways to counter any temptations of rebellion.

In principle, membership of these three groups is not hereditary. The child of Inner Party parents is in theory not built-in into the Inner Party. Admission to either co-operative of the Party is by exam, taken at the age of sixteen. Nor is at that place whatsoever racial discrimination, or any marked domination of one province past some other. Jews, N****es, South Americans of pure Indian blood are to exist institute in the highest ranks of the Party [...]. Its rulers are not held together past blood-ties just by adherence to a common doctrine... The Political party is not a class in the one-time sense of the discussion. Information technology does non aim at transmitting power to its own children, as such; and if there were no other way of keeping the ablest people at the peak, information technology would be perfectly prepared to recruit an entire new generation from the ranks of the proletariat. In the crucial years, the fact that the Party was not a hereditary torso did a bang-up deal to neutralize opposition... The essence of oligarchical dominion is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain globe-view and a certain style of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group then long as information technology can nominate its successors. The Political party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. (2.9.58, Goldstein's Manifesto)

The Political party'south view about loyalty is that for totalitarianism to thrive, there must not be private loyalties at all. Rather, insofar every bit Inner Party members are concerned with the perpetuation of the Party's rule, the just commanded loyalty is the loyalty to power itself.

Book 3, Chapter one

"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish information technology off and allow me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to 20-five years. Is there somebody else you desire me to requite abroad? Just say who it is and I'll tell y'all anything you lot want. I don't intendance who it is or what you practice to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my optics, and I'll stand up by and watch information technology. But not Room 101!" (3.1.71, the old tortured man at the Ministry building of Dear)

The blazon of torture the Party employs is then intense that the people bailiwick to it are ready to betray annihilation and anyone in guild to avoid information technology. No private loyalty tin be said to be later the threat of this pain.

The Proles

"Downwardly with Large Brother! Yep, I said that! Said it over and over once more, it seems. Between you and me, old human, I'grand glad they got me before it went whatever further [...]."

"Who denounced yous?" said Winston.

"It was my picayune daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't behave her whatsoever grudge for it. In fact I'1000 proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the correct spirit, anyhow." (three.1.48-50)

The children of Party members such as Parsons are then overcome with dear for and indoctrination by the Party that they survey and turn in their own parents for thoughtcrime.

Book three, Chapter 2

O'Brien

" [...] in the finish we bankrupt them down. I took part in their interrogation myself. I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, groveling, weeping - and in the end it was not with pain or fear, just with penitence. By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. In that location was zippo left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to come across how they loved him. They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were withal clean." (three.2.105, O'Brien)

The Party ultimately vaporizes captured rebels, but not earlier converting, reforming, and reindoctrinating them - thereby ensuring continued and undying loyalty.

"What take you done with Julia?" said Winston.

O'Brien smiled once more. "She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately-unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly. Y'all would inappreciably recognize her if you saw her. All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness - everything has been burned out of her. Information technology was a perfect conversion, a textbook instance." "You tortured her?" (three.ii.32-34)

Upon hearing of Julia'southward betrayal, Winston is certain that she was subject to torture, just as he was. Loyalty is piece of cake to breach in the face of torture.

Book three, Chapter 3

O'Brien

"Can you think of a single deposition that has not happened to you?"

Winston had stopped weeping, though the tears were nevertheless oozing out of his eyes. He looked up at O'Brien.

"I have non betrayed Julia," he said [...].

He had not stopped loving her; his feeling toward her had remained the same. (3.three.77-81, O'Brien to Winston)

Despite prolonged torture, Winston's concluding act of rebellion is to agree on to his individual loyalty to Julia; he refuses to beguile her.

Book 3, Chapter 4

Winston Smith

Suddenly he started up with a shock of horror. The sweat broke out on his backbone. He had heard himself weep aloud:

"Julia ! Julia! Julia, my beloved! Julia!" (iii.4.20-21)

In a fit of rebellion and manifestation of individual loyalty, Winston refuses to give up his ties to Julia.

Book 3, Affiliate 5

Winston Smith

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't intendance what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Non me!" (3.five.24)

Faced with his biggest fear, Winston finally betrays his private loyalty to Julia.

Book iii, Affiliate 6

Two gin-scented tears trickled downwards the sides of his nose. But it was all correct, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. (3.6.41)

How appropriate information technology is to end with Winston'southward self-announcement of dearest, acceptance, and loyalty to the Party.

Julia

"I betrayed you," she said baldly.

"I betrayed yous," he said.

She gave him another quick await of dislike.

"Sometimes," she said, "they threaten y'all with something y'all can't stand up up to, can't even call back nigh. And so yous say, 'Don't do it to me, practice it to somebody else, practice it to So-and-and then.' And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a fox and that you just said information technology to make them end and didn't really hateful it. But that isn't truthful. At the fourth dimension when it happens you do hateful it. You lot recollect at that place'due south no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite set up to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All y'all care about is yourself."

"All you intendance about is yourself," he echoed.

"And after that, you don't feel the same towards the other person any longer."

"No," he said, "you don't feel the aforementioned." (3.vi.16-22, Winston and Julia)

For both Winston and Julia, torture is able to chew through the deepest bonds of loyalty.

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