Ch6

• 1.6

  Winston describes how the Party has power over its members' relationships. He describes his wife and his experience with prostitution.
• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.
• The most deadly danger of all was talking in your sleep. There was no way of guarding against that, so far as he could see.
• The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act.
• The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
• She (Katherine) had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.
• She had two names for it. One was ‘making a baby,’ and the other was ‘our duty to the Party’
• Chastity 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.
• The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.