1984 crit quotes Flashcards
Who said: “Language becomes a method of mind control with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination”
Jem Berkes
Who said: “Big Brother is an invention. A fictional personage and hence immortal, and those who are contained in him partake in his immortality”
Burgess
Who said: “Propaganda and surveillance are not just accidentally related, but essentially linked”
Micheal Yeo
Who said: “Orwell’s great achievement was to convince us that O’Brien was, indeed, possible”
Phelan
Who said: “The republic of Gilead justifies their sexist policies through socio-biological theories of natural polygamy”
Vevaina
Who said: “The work that the women do conspires to maintain the subjection of their own kind”
Goldblatt
Who said: “Moira is Offred’s rebel alter ego”
Briscoe
Who said: “The Handmaid is infertile; she has lost the ability to act as a proper landlord to her own property”
Myrsiades
Who said: “Atwood’s focus is on the extent to which the individual can push social determinism”
Dvorak
Who said: “Offred’s power is in language”
Beran
Who said: “1984 is apparently the story of a failure”
Michea (The e is accented)
