1984 Critics Flashcards
Mark Robert - ‘Everyman’
“the Everyman is out of his depth”
“the Everyman is motivated by self-
preservation”
Beatrix Campbell
“women are akin to the proletarian
man in Orwell’s work”
Bell
Oceania is “a human society stripped of the last shreds of humanity”
“fear and anxiety the daily staple of
life”
Beddoe
“Orwell’s self proclaimed
egalitarianism should have
extended beyond the plight of the
working class man to the working
class woman”
Schellenberg
“this Big Brother society is too well-
constructed to break apart in the
face of one mans resistance”
Podheretz
“Orwell’s ruling passion was the fear
and hatred of totalitarianism”
Berkes
“language becomes a mind-control
tool, with the ultimate goal being the
destruction of will and imagination”
Kramer
“among the English writers of his
generation, none was more alert to
the external pressures of history
than George Orwell”
Atwood
in dystopia, “women are ‘either sexless automations or rebels who’ve defied the sex rules of the regime”
Forster
“Big Brother also lurks behind
Churchill and any leader whom
propaganda utilises or invents”
Orwell
“Nazi theory indeed specifically
denies that a thing such as ‘the truth’
exists”
he stated in society there is a conflict between “discipline” and “individualism” - he favours the latter
“two and two could become five if the Fuhrer wished it”
Conheeneyl
1984 serves as a “a warning for the human race”, “it highlights the importance of resisting mass control and oppression”
Reese
“the strongest love that remains in
Oceania is the warped love of
tortured towards his torturer”
Orwell - death
“perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea”
