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1951

Quote #1
“Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.”

This quote reveals Winston’s character, for the first time he expresses his feelings to another human about how he hates people who follow the rules of big brother and wants people to break the rule by having sex and other forms of disobedience. This was one of the reasons why Winston fell in love with Julia because of their common beliefs. This quote relates to my theme corruption because it shows the true felling of a person who lived in Oceania and how they were fed up of with all the rules and lack of freedom. Winston figures if the whole world was corrupt than all the rules could be broken and then they could finally have freedom. Once corruption happens in the society, it can lead to a civil war between the rebels and the party. Therefore leading to a breakdown of the whole social system. The picture that best portrays this would be the devil. The devil is known to be devious, evil and manipulative and is known to hate all pure and good things in the world. Usually he walks around making good people become bad by using greed as a temptation, which results in the person’s soul to become corrupt

Quote #2
“Big brother is watching you”

There are posters all over Oceania with a picture saying “Big brother is watching you”, this is not just only words it’s the truth. There are telescreens and thought police around every corner observing you. This will eventually cause the destruction of freedom of speech and the ability for people to construct ideas or opinions. This is exactly what the party wants as it completely destroys the chance of a rebellion. This quote relates to corruption because by taking away peoples freedom and privacy it makes them feel uncomfortable just to walk out of their house. So they start to make organizations like the “brotherhood” and meet in secrete places where they...