1984 critics quotes Flashcards
daniel bell, 1988: “a human society stripped…”
“a human society stripped of the last shreds of community.”
pimlott: “orwell reminds us how…”
“orwell reminds us how shaky our hold on objective knowledge is”
kristoffer topen: “winston’s rebellion has been…”
“winston’s rebellion has been instilled in him.”
kristoffer rissanen: “the party isolates every…”
“the party isolates every individual, destroying all social bonds”
james schellebereg: “the Big Brother Society is too…”
“the Big Brother Society is too well-constructed to break apart in the face of one man’s resistance”
berkes: “the psychological…”
“the psychological are the dominant in the novel”
schama: “the last refuge…”
“the last refuge against Big Brother is memory”
gottlieb: “the act of memory…”
“the act of memory is an act of resistance”
bernard crick: “1984 is a warning…”
“1984 is a warning, not a prophecy, a cry of ‘danger’ not ‘despair’”
patricia hill: “orwell’s novel is not to attack…”
“orwell’s novel is not to attack a specific belief system, but rather the suppression of freedom and individual thought”
george orwell: “if thought corrupts language…”
“if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought”
anthony burgess: “Big Brother is mythological…”
“Big Brother is mythological, and hence immortal”
bossche: “the large mass of common people….”
“the large mass of common people does not find in themselves the need to think independently”
berkes: “language becomes a method…”
“language becomes a method of mind control”
e.m. forster: “behind stalin lurks Big Brother…”
“behind stalin lurks Big Brother, but Big Brother also lurks behind any leader whom propaganda utilises or invents”
