all 1984 Flashcards
Stonebridge
“As Winston writes, he begins to dream, and something of that dream logic seeps into the text, coaxing him into actions he cannot account for.”
Williams
“We don’t ever really see anything from the proles pov. Everything that we learn about them is told to us through the eyes of others”
Cambell
“women do not appear as protagonists in Orwells’ working class”
“sexual filter surrounds all his female personae”
“Orwell writes women out of working-class politics”
“women are congratulated only when they stick to their men”
“Nowhere in Orwell do the working class make history”
Hitchens
“Orwell’s actual prejudice turns out to be against the sexless women”
“men in Orwell’s fiction are utterly incapable of happiness without women”
Weiss
“those who see Winston as a victim rather than a complicit participant in Oceania’s totalitarianism forget the delight he takes in his job.”
“Totalitarian regimes arise because people are too complacent or afraid to resist them”
Schellenberg
“Big Brother society is too well constructed to break apart in the face of one man’s resistance.”
Newsinger
“Julia is a sexual rebel.”
Beddoe
“Julia is totally uncapable of understanding the motives which drive Winston to revolt.”
Berggren
“Winston forfeits his need for individual thinking in order to love BB.”
Reese
“The strongest love that remains in Oceania is the warped love of tortured towards his torturer.”
Berkes
“Language becomes a method of mind control.”
Stansky
“Psychological tactics applied to the general public… that is where the strength lies.”
Grossman
“Technology exists as a tool for stagnation, rather than for progression.”
Moss
“The Inner Party deprives people of their own words and in doing so deprives them of memory.”
Moylan
“uses the portrait of a nightmare future in order to launch a political critique of the present.”
