| heroic traits | unheroic traits |
|---|---|
| ”’We are the dead,’ he said.” ⇒ selflessness, bravery (pp. 124, 159, 199) | cont.: ”Not physically. Six months, a year—five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. […] But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.” ⇒ fear |
| ”If there was hope, it lay in the proles!” ⇒ hope | ”I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” ⇒ selfishness |
| ”His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals— DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page.” ⇒ righteousness, rebellion | cont.: ”He could not help feeling a twinge of panic. It was absurd […]; but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.“ (p. 20, ll. 7-11) ⇒ fear |
| ”Much more it was because of a secretly-held belief – or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope – that O’Brien’s political orthodoxy was not perfect.“ ⇒ hope/belief in good | ”He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” ⇒ defeat |
| ”You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we order you to do so?’ ‘Yes.“ (p. 156, ll. 25-27) | ”’I betrayed you,’ [Julia] said baldly. ‘I betrayed you,’ [Winston] said. […] ‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘they threaten you with something – something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, “Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.“ […] You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.’ ‘All you care about is yourself,’ he echoed.“ (pp. 263-264, ll. 33-10) |
- hope
- righteousness
- selflessness/selfishness
- fear