Critics quotes

Question 1

Atkins
Gloom

Answer 1

“the gloom of the ending of 1984 is less to ideology than to the fact tht Orwells health had markedly deterioated as he was writing 1984

Question 2

Hollis
Prophecy

Answer 2

“1984 is not meant as a definite prophecy, Orwell expected and hoped that the book would be a warning so that the society ruled by Big brother could not come out

Question 3

Meyers
Archetypal fear

Answer 3

“1984 expresses our archetypal fears of isolation, disintegration, beastility, cruelty and dehumanisation

Question 4

Berkes
Language

Answer 4

“Language becomes the method of mind control with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination”

Question 5

Crick
Satire

Answer 5

“It is not a prophecy, It is plainly a satire”

Question 6

Crick
Winston’s defeat

Answer 6

“That (winston) is finally defeated us unevitable in this satire of total power

Question 7

Conheeneyl
Warning

Answer 7

“Orwells novella is a warning for the human race. it highlights the importance of ressiting mass control and opression”

Question 8

Campbell
Women and proles

Answer 8

‘women are akin to the proletarian man inOrwell’s work

Question 9

John
Fears

Answer 9

‘1984 plays with our deepest fears

Question 10

Boschee
Prophecy

Answer 10

‘it contains no prophetic declaration only asimple warning to mankind’

Question 11

Bell
Society

Answer 11

1984 surrounds ‘a human society stripped of thelast shreds of community’

Question 12

Woodcock
Obrien

Answer 12

O’Brien is in ‘an extreme and monstrous form thepretensions of all men in power

Question 13

Harriss
Love

Answer 13

only through love and marriage Orwellsuggests, can the person remain a person

Question 14

Howe
Sexual supression

Answer 14

we know from the past that the sexual impulsecan be heavily suppressed.

Question 15

Kikia
Children

Answer 15

in 1984, children are essentially used to break upthe family unit

Question 16

Lapointe
Katherine

Answer 16

Katherine […] was more or less just simply apawn for the Party

Question 17

Lockhurst
Winston and Julia sort off

Answer 17

it explores the resistant potential of desire andsexuality’

Question 18

Lynch
Stalin

Answer 18

there are many parallels between big brotherand stalin

Question 19

Michea
failure

Answer 19

1984 is apparently the story of a failure

Question 20

Newsinger
Julia

Answer 20

Describes Julia as a ‘sexual rebel

Question 21

Orwell
Nazis

Answer 21

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that sucha thing as ‘the truth’ exist

Question 22

Orwell
Totalitariunsim

Answer 22

‘every line of serious work since 1936 hasbeen written directly or indirectly againsttotalitarianism

Question 23

Orwell
Language

Answer 23

decline of language must have political andeconomic causes

Question 24

Pimlott
Sexual happiness

Answer 24

sexual happiness is the biggest threat to thesystem

Question 25

Podhertz Totalitariunism

Answer 25

Orwell's ruling passion was the fear and hatred of totalitarianism'

Question 26

Reese Love to big brother

Answer 26

the strongest love that remains in Oceania isthe warped love of tortured towards historturer

Question 27

Rissanen Hate

Answer 27

the Party uses hate to keep itself in power'

Question 28

Topham Language

Answer 28

language is degraded to such a state that itonly serves the government'

Question 29

Schellenberg Big brother

Answer 29

this big brother society is too well-constructed to break apart in the face of onemans resistance'