1984 critics Flashcards
Meyers
“He looked backward in time as much as he looked forward.”
Smithers
(bleak world) “he also uses it symbolically…to reflect on the emptiness and lack of meaning in modern 20th century”
Smithers
“dust, a symbol of futility and death”
O’Duffy
“The Party can destroy childhood with its propaganda and indoctrinate emotionless values into the innocent”
Roberts
(everyman archetypes) “root us in reality and give us a flawed figure…to identify with”
Roberts
“protagonist inspires feelings of pity and pathos, not patriotism and pride”
Roberts
(Winston) “is no straightforward martyr”
Bowker
“1984 had been written against death”
Meyers
“Orwell shows that totalitarianism paradoxically intensifies solitude by forcing all the isolated beings into one overpowering system”
Campbell
“women are akin to the proletarian man in Orwell’s work”
Campbell
“sexual filter surrounds all his female personae”
Bail
“women are at the margins”
“exist mainly as a source of frustration, irritation or temptation”
Bell
“a human society stripped to the last shreds of community”
“fear and anxiety the daily staple of life”
Arendt
“under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think”
Lee
“the impossibility of any human relationship”
