AO4 and AO5

Question 1

What are some common themes in dystopians

Answer 1

gender
environment
fertility
social control
resistance
class
conformity
surveillance
language
nostalgia
secrecy

Question 2

examples of dystopia

Answer 2

Gullivers Travel - Swift
Brave New World - Huxley - natural reproduction replaced by test tubes
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro - restriction of human relationships

Question 3

similarities with 1984

Answer 3

based on real life events of a totalitarian regime
two minutes of hate is linked to particicution
newspeak restricts language
mass hysteria caused by a secret police

Question 4

themes in Atwoods other writing

Answer 4

Heart goes last - nationwide economic collapse- position project promises steady work in exchange for freedom
oryx and care - a future world in which humanity has been wiped out

Question 5

What is the post modern novel

Answer 5

denies objectjeticy in reality and is in favour of experimentation

Question 6

Epigraph

Answer 6

‘A Modest Proposal’ - Swift - satire of the Irish potatoe faminine - show the governments mistreatment people and feed false information e.g by just eating their children instead