dystopia

Question 1

propaganda

Answer 1

used to control the citizens of the society

“Big Brother is watching you”

Question 2

information

Answer 2

dependent though and freedom are restricted

Question 3

a figurehead or concept

Answer 3

are worshipped by the citizens

BB in 1984
“our ford” in BNW

Question 4

surveillance

Answer 4

citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance

“perhaps he is an Eye” HMT
“the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows” 1984

Question 5

uniforms

Answer 5

citizens have to conform to uniform expectations as individuality and dissent are bad

blue overalls for outer party 1984
“white wings (…) are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen” HMT

Question 6

much dystopian writing

Answer 6

involves updating to a more technologically advanced setting like in BNW

Question 7

a catastrophe

Answer 7

has reduced the surviving population to primitive standard of living and politics, as in the Road

Question 8

HMT’s context

Answer 8

second-wave feminism of the 1970s

Question 9

CWO context

Answer 9

reflects the anxieties of brainwashing in the early 1960s

Question 10

comparison to BNW

Answer 10

both predictions of societies dominated by a central government, but the ruling classes of 1984 use brutal force, torture and mind control to keep individuals in line, whereas BNW rulers keep citizens in line through addictive drugs and pleasurable distractions