Comparison Flashcards
(30 cards)
Critical quote about new speak
BERKES
language becomes a method of mind control
How does Daniel Bell describe 1984
A human society stripped of the last shreds of community
Critical quote about sexuality 1984
PIMLOTT
sexual happiness is the biggest threat to the system
Critical quote about Orwell and totalitarianism
PODHORETZ
Orwell’s ruling passion was the fear and hatred of totalitarianism
Critical quote that low key gives Stockholm syndrome (Winston and O’Brien, Winston and BB)
REESE
the strongest love that remains in Oceania is the warped love of tortures towards his torturer
Critical quote by Atwood about reverence of her novel in society
The handmaids tale is a SLIGHT twist of the society we have now
Critical theory about male superiority in handmaids
KLARER
These measures aim at giving male leadership all advantages
Critical theory quote about the ceremony in handmaids
CAVALCANTI
It synthesizes the institutionalized humiliation, objectification and ownership of women in Gilead
What does Atwood say about love affairs
Is the regime forbids love affairs then one of the rebellious things you can do is have one
What does Atwood say about OfFred
OfFred is an ordinary, more or less cowardly woman rather than a heroine
Critical quote about Moira
Moria’s main role is exposing OfFreds cowardice through the difference between how they behave
Critical quote about history George Orwell, link to vaporisation
From a totaltarian point of view, history is something that’s created not learned
Critical quote about scapegoats
KADHIM
in order to prove its right to rule every regime must find its own scapegoat
Howell critical theory quote
He could not die for Julia and he could not die as a martyr
During which war does Orwell write 1984 in
Cold War
He names it that
What people is BB based off
Hitler and starlin
Starlin sill in harsh of USSR during writing and publishing of 1984
What did Germany have to sign after WW1
Treaty of Versailles
When was 1984 written
1949
When was the first atomic bomb dropped, name
1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What war did orwelll fight in
Spanish civil war
Had spies
No loyalty, his friends turned on him
Name of the part of campaign that Orwell writes 1984 during that was a way to expose suspected communists
McCarthyism
“Second red scare”
Late 40s-50s
Political repression
Exaggerated the danger of community subversion (like Nazi germany did with Jews in the war that ended a couple year before this)
Anyone suspected or friends with those who were suspected of holding left of center political views harassed
People suspected were suspected for things like handing modern art photos on wall or having a multi racial friendship group or signed petitions against nuclear weapons
Had to testify if you were suspected
Evidence fabricated
Who was president at time of Atwoods writings
Reagan
Reaganomics
Doubled taxis for working people, cut for rich
Created huge tax loop holes for corporations
Opposed the equal rights amendment
As a result 2.5 million more women sunk below poverty line
Avoided and downplayed social issues such as abortion, homosexuality and racial integration
Opposed civil rights act
Revive propaganda against communism (compare to McCarthyism)
War on drugs that disproportionately affected black minorities
“Homelessness, you might say, by choice”- tent villages named reaganville
Didn’t do anything about abortion clinics being bombed, ironic as yet he referred to abortion as “taking the life as an unborn child”
What waves of feminism does Orwell and Atwood write under
Orwell- first
Atwood- second
What epidemic does Atwood write during
Aids
