Endings quotes

Question 1

1984

Answer 1

• ‘I betrayed you’ ‘you don’t feel the same about the other person any longer’ ‘Do it to Julia! Not me!’
• ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever’
• ‘He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.’
• ‘Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.’

Question 2

THMT

Answer 2

• Moira’s story ends uncertainly
• Offred mentions ‘May Day’ to the new Ofglen, ‘She isn’t one of us, but she knows’
• Ofglen hangs herself when she sees the van coming for her
• ‘I want to keep living in any form’
• ‘I feel for the first time, their true power’
• Nick asks her to ‘trust me’ before entering the van
• ‘And so I step up into the darkness within; or else the light’

Question 3

Historical Notes

Answer 3

• satirical/pastiche of the apathy academics study history with
• ‘The fishing expedition will go forward tomorrow as planned’
• ‘Gileadean society was under a good deal of pressure, demographic and otherwise, and was subject to factors from which we ourselves are happily free’
• ‘cassette tapes’ found on ‘a known stop on the Underground Femaleroad’ not arranged in any order, raising questions about reliability of narrative?
• ‘She could have told us much about the workings of the Gileadean empire, had she the instincts of a reporter or spy’
• ‘there was little that was the truly original with or indigenous to Giead: its genius was synthesis’ ominous, chilling, could easily happen again