Control/power (propaganda, religion, theocracy)

Question 1

Control (handmaids) quote

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Answer 1

• “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze” - Offred
• “Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom form” - Aunt Lydia
• “I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolour picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly, why the glass is shatter proof. It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself”

Question 2

Control (1984) quotes

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Answer 2

• “Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema” - Party uses peoples suppressed sexual energy to fuel its marches/to keep people in line
• “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
• “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing”