Cririts 1984 Flashcards
‘We’ and ‘BNW’ both deal with…
the rebellion of the primitive human spirit’ Orwell 1946
‘1984 is powered by the horrors…
of two world wars’ Booker, 1994
‘Julia is anything but…
revolutionary, she only cares about the personal immediate’ 2009
‘George Orwell’s handling…
of his main female character in 1984 is clichéd, clumsy, and not a little sexist’ Berlatsky 2014
Brave New World and We are…
‘negative utopias’ Robert C. Elliott 20th century
‘Dystopian fiction is…
prodromic’ Bradbury 20th century
‘A bleak dystopian world…
should encourage the reader to think critically about their own world’ Booker, 2013
In reference to dystopian fiction…
‘social criticism’ Booker, 1994
‘Dystopian societies are more or less…
thinly veiled re-figurations of a situation that already exists’ Booker 1994
‘In the 50s…
the world changed. There was a fear that the human race was threatened by its own brilliance’ J.G. Ballard
