Dystopia Critical Quotes

Question 1

THMT Davis

Answer 1

Gilets / regimes leaders ‘are far more interested in controlling the body over the mind’

Question 2

THMT Goldblatt

Answer 2

Women in Gilead ‘subjugate their own kind’

Question 3

THMT Roberts

Answer 3

‘Some feminist critics have accused Offred of being complicit in her own imprisonment’
‘The perverse joy in the genre is seeing how people like us struggle in atrocious situations’

Question 4

THMT Mohr

Answer 4

‘Offred’s behaviour should not be so easily and self-righteously dismissed as cowardliness form ten safe distance of being snuggled into an armchair’

Question 5

THMT Weiss

Answer 5

‘Her cowardice and complicity convict us all, because we share it’
‘Does not represent Atwood’s ideal in how to respond to totalitarianism

Question 6

THMT Globe and Mail

Answer 6

‘Atwood’s pessimism comes to the fore as she tries to frighten us into an awareness of our own destiny before it is too late’

Question 7

1984 Atwood

Answer 7

‘It is written in ordinary language, not Newspeak. The obvious implication is that the regime has fallen’
(Section on Newspeak at the end of 1984)