Embedded Quotes Examples
Once Winston gets Julia alone, she proceeds in “ripping off the scarlet sash of the Junior AntiSex League and flinging it onto a bough,” after proclaiming, “it is this blood thing that does it”
(101).
Readers quickly learn that Winston dislikes this girl, and for some reason she give him “the
impression of being more dangerous than others” (10).
During the Two Minute Hate, Winston catches O’Brien’s eye, and Winston has the realization
that “their minds had opened and the thoughts were flowing from one to another through their
eyes” and Winston hears O’Brien seemingly saying to him “ ‘I am with you’ ” (17).
When Winston wakes up he “did not know where he was. Presumably he was in the Ministry of
Love” (225).
The glass paperweight was something Winston bought at the store. To him it was “a little chunk
of history that they’ve [government] forgotten to alter” (145).
Embedding Quotes Practice
Embedding quotes is an essential for a good literary analysis essay. It gives one’s writing
coherence and a natural flow by providing seamless textual evidence. The following chunks
have been written without embedding the chosen quotes from 1984. You are to choose five
of the chunks and rewrite them, embedding the quotes. Use just the parts of the quotes that
you need to insert into the sentence provided. You may reword the sentence as well.
1.The setting of the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop is more than a rundown apartment, but a
mental escape for Winston and Julia. “Dirty or clean, the room was paradise…The room was a
world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk” (124).
2.It is the worst punishment anyone can imagine. “ ‘The worst thing in the world’ said O’Brien,
‘varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or
by impalement, or by fifty other deaths’ ” (233).
3.It stated in the book, “ ‘You thought I was a good Party member. Pure in words and
deeds…And you thought that if I had a quarter of a chance I’d denounce you as a thought
criminal’ ” (121).
4.Mr. Charrington, the man who gave Winston and Julia the room to make love in seems like an
understanding and thoughtful man. “…Mr. Charrington had made no difficulty about letting the
room…nor did he seem shocked or became offensively knowing when it was clear Winston
wanted the room for the purpose of a love affair” (137).
5.One man got on his knees and started begging. “There’s nothing I wouldn’t confess, nothing!
Just tell me what it is and I’ll confess it straight off. Write it down and I’ll sign it – anything!
Not Room 101!” (236)
6.For example, Mr. Charrington gives off the feeling that he was a nice old man but he is the
person who catches Winston and Julia. “It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life
he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police” (224).
7.Another contradiction comes at the beginning of the novel, involving Winston’s diary and the
laws against it. “He had carried it guilty home in his briefcase. Even with nothing written in it, it
was a compromising possession” (9).
8.The room has no privacy we later find out in the book. “…turned back and a crash of breaking
glass. The picture had fallen to the floor, uncovering the telescreen behind it” (222).
9.In every house, hallway, bedroom, and bathroom, there is a TV for propaganda and a camera
for watching the citizens of Oceania. “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Any sound that Winston made above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;
moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded,
he could see seen as well as heard” (2-3).
10.They had finally found a place to be together, but they were wrong. “ ‘It was behind the
picture,’ breathed Julia. ‘It was behind the picture’ said the voice. Remain exactly where you are.
Make no movements until you are ordered’ ” (221).