Key Versatile Quotes

Question 1

AHT
Nolite te ……… ………..

Answer 1

Nolite te bastardes carbornundorum.
- Don’t let the bastards bring you down.
- Symbol of secret resistance and inner rebellion.
- Links to resistance, language and power of hope.
- Though meaningless, it gives offers strength and symbolises how even false narratives can offer psychological rebellion in dystopia.

Question 2

AHT
Better never means ………. ….. ………, it always means ….,.,,, for some.

Answer 2

Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse, for some.
- Spoken by the commander.
- Links to power, inequality and justification of oppression.
- A candid moment revealing how those in power accept suffering as necessary collateral for their own gain- reflects the systematic cruelty of Gilead.

Question 3

AHT
A ….. in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as … ……. Inside the ……

Answer 3

A rat is free to go anywhere as long as it stays inside the maze.
- Describes illusion of freedom in Gilead.
- Links to surveillance, control and illusion of choice.
- Highlights how the regime manipulated people into thinking they have autonomy- but all choices are predetermined.

Question 4

AHT
We were the people who were ….. in the …….: We lived in the blank white spaces at the …… …. the ……..

Answer 4

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lives in the blank white spaces at the edge of the print.
- Refers to women before Gilead and their societal invisibility.
- Links to erasure, history and identity.
- Offred reflects on how women’s stories were never documented. Even pre-Gilead society was complicit in silencing women- connects to themes of forgotten voices.

Question 5

AHT
My name isn’t ……., I have another name, which nobody ….. now because it’s …………

Answer 5

My name isn’t offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden.
- Offreds act of resistance.
- Links to identity, rebellion and language.
- Reclaiming her name is symbolic of personal resistance. Shows how controlling makes/ language is a way of erasing identity in dystopia.

Question 6

1984
War is ………
Freedom is …………
Ignorance is ………

Answer 6

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- The patty’s slogans.
- Links to propaganda, language and power.
- Demonstrates the manipulation of truth. By corrupting logic and language, the regime controls reality.

Question 7

1984
Who controls the ……. controls the …….. Who controls the ……… controls the past.

Answer 7

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- Core concept of control through history.
- Links historical erasure, power and memory.
- The Party’s dominance relies on controlling perception. Historical revisionism prevents resistance by erasing alternatives.

Question 8

1984
……. ………….. is watching you.

Answer 8

Big brother is watching you.
- Constant reminder of surveillance.
- Links to paranoia, surveillance and control.
- Creates fear of punishment. Also it’s unclear where BB even exists- emphasises psychological control more than physical.

Question 9

1984
We are the ………

Answer 9

We are the dead
- Winston and Julia, foreshadowing their fate.
- Links to fatalism, rebellion and hopelessness.
- Reflects the inevitability of failure in a totalitarian system. Even in rebellion, they know their outcome is death.

Question 10

1984
………… is the freedom to say that ….. plus ….. makes ……..

Answer 10

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four.
- Winstons idea of absolute truth
- Links to truth, logic and resistance.
- Holding onto objective truth becomes an act of defiance. A powerful line showing how truth is the foundation of freedom in dystopia.