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Dystopia Critics Flashcards

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Allan Weiss 2009 ‘while she does not belong to…
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‘While she does not belong to the upper levels of Gilead’s power hierarchy, she is no less responsible for its destruction of freedom’
- argues all those who ignore are equally guilty thus making offred a complicit participant in the regime & in her own oppression

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Heidi Macpherson 2001 ‘Atwood is not a propagandist but…
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Atwood is not a propagandist but an observer; her work merely reflects the reality of an uneven distribution of power between men and women’
- feminist view

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Atwood 2015 ‘dealing with a character whose ability…
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‘Dealing with a character whose ability to move in the society was limited. She was boxed in…the more limited and boxed in you are, the more important details become’
- cannot blame offred for her complacency considering how trapped she is

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Howells 1996 ‘the choice of a female narrator…
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‘The choice of a female narrator turns the traditionally masculine dystopian genre upside down’

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Wisker 2010 ‘there is no sisterhood…
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‘There is no sisterhood only division and disempowerment’

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Stokwisz 1999 ‘language is highlighted as the…
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‘Language is highlighted as the main instrument of ideological and social control’

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Howells 1996 ‘individual freedom of choice has…
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‘Individual freedom of choice has been outlawed and everyone has been drafted into the service of the state’

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K. Resuming 2002 ‘in the Gileadean patriarchy a woman is…
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‘In the Gileadean patriarchy a woman is denied the right to possess or to have control over her body’

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Guiner ‘indeed the desire of the…
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‘Indeed the desire of the Gilead regime to remove name is as strong as the desire to remove faces’

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Bossche 1984 ‘it contains no prophetic…
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‘It contains no prophetic declaration only a simple warning to mankind’

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Daniel Bell 1988 ‘a human society stripped…
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‘A human society stripped of the last shreds of community’

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Cricket 1984 ‘that he (Winston) is finally…
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‘That he (Winston) is finally defeated is inevitable in this satire of total power’

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Harris 2021 ‘only through love and…
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‘Only through love and marriage Orwell suggest, can the person remain a person

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Deutscher 1955 ‘a document of dark disillusionment…
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‘A document of dark disillusionment, not only with Stalinism, but with every other form and shade of socialism’

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Berggren ‘Winston forfeits his need for…
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‘Winston forfeits his need for individual thinking in order to love big brother’

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Stansky ‘psychological tactics applied to..
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‘Psychological tactics applied to the general public…that is where the strength lies’

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Grossman ‘technology exists as a…
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‘Technology exists as a tool for stagnation, rather than for progression’

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Pimlott ‘Orwell reminds us how…
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‘Orwell reminds us how shaky our hold on objective knowledge is’

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Rissanen ‘the party isolates every…
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‘The party isolates every individual, destroying all social bonds’

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Schellebereg ‘the big brother society is…
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‘The big brother society is too well-constructed to break apart in the face of one man’s resistance’

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Gottlieb ‘the act of memory…
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‘The act of memory is an act of resistance’

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Patricia Hill ‘Orwell’s novel is not to attack…
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‘Orwell’s novel is not to attack a specific belief system, but rather the suppression of freedom and individual thought’

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Orwell ‘if thought corrupts language…
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‘If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought’

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Asimov ‘Orwell presents three ways of…
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‘Orwell presents three ways of maintaining an eternal tyranny: the immortality of Big Brother, the presence of someone or something to hate, and rewriting history’

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Anthony Burgess ‘big brother is…
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‘Big brother is mythological and hence immortal’

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Dominick M. Grace ‘we lived in the gaps…
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‘We lived in the gaps between the stories’

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Aman Malak ‘a state that claims to be…
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‘A state that claims to be founded on Christian principles yet lacks spirituality and benevolence’

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