Asked by Avery Williams

Read the quotations below from George Orwell's 1984. Match each one with the theme or lesson it suggests.

Quote 1: "The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.
Quote 2: "She had possessed a kind of nobility... simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own and could not be altered from outside."
Quote 3: "The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense, it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction."

Themes: Having out beliefs affirmed is comforting. Follow your own principles. Labels can be used to deceive.

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Quote 1 → Labels can be used to deceive.
- The ministries' names contradict their functions (Peace=war, Love=punish), showing how language/labels hide reality.

Quote 2 → Follow your own principles.
- Her "private" standards and inner feelings give her dignity and independence from the Party.

Quote 3 → Having our beliefs affirmed is comforting.
- The book reassures Winston because it confirms what he already suspected rather than surprising him.