NEF + THT AO5 Quotes

Question 1

O’Brien is ‘a caricature, a monstrosity . . .the pretensions of all men of power’

Answer 1

George Woodcock

Question 2

‘It was as a committed socialist that Orwell most felt the need to expose ‘the Soviet myth’.’

Answer 2

Krishan Kumar

Question 3

‘[Orwell] increasingly viewed reality through the dark glasses of a quasi-mystical pessimism’

Answer 3

Isaac Deutscher

Question 4

‘This is amongst the most terrifying books I have ever read’ -

Answer 4

Frederic Warburg

Question 5

Orwell has imagined nothing new . . His world of 1984 is the wartime world of 1944 but dirtier and more cruel’ -

Answer 5

Tom Hopkinson.

Question 6

[Nineteen Eighty-Four] is a warning, not a prophecy, a cry of ‘danger’, not ‘despair’ -

Answer 6

Bernard Crick

Question 7

• ‘This linguistic manipulation is fundamental to the society’s creation of a population which is complicit in its own oppression, willingly expressing their love and gratitude to Big Brother.’

Answer 7

Howell, 2016

Question 8

‘They have hijacked machines and ensured that they are used mainly to further their two aims: conquering the whole globe and stopping people from thinking independently.’

Answer 8

Brown, 2010

Question 9

• ‘This means that, whilst the material world is completely controlled by Big Brother, the same influence cannot be applied to the internal consciousness of the individual.’

Answer 9

Brown, 2010

Question 10

‘Through this process [of changing history], Big Brother becomes omnipotent.’

Answer 10

Thorp, 1984 -

Question 11

• ‘he thinks he finds a father figure, almost a god; but in fact O’Brien becomes antifather, almost anti-Christ.’

Answer 11

Mulvihill, 1986

Question 12

• ‘Orwell is clearly saying that once one gets into a totalitarian regime there is no way out, no hope through conspiracy or rebellion.’

Answer 12

Mulvihill, 1986

Question 13

‘[Julia] is totally incapable of understanding the motives which drive Winston to revolt’ -

Answer 13

Deirdre Beddeo

Question 14

‘predicts a state of things far worse than any of us have ever known’ -

Answer 14

Trilling 1949

Question 15

‘despite the futuristic settings…[NEF] is a satire of Orwell’s immediate melieu’

Answer 15

• Reilly 1989

Question 16

‘the brotherhood of suffering between everything alive’/ ‘Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness’

Answer 16

• Zapffe 1933

Question 17

‘elaborate cat and mouse game suggests a shortage of mice’ -

Answer 17

Lerner 1992

Question 18

‘Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it’

Answer 18

• Arendt

Question 19

‘in a totalitarian regime, there are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.’

Answer 19

• Arendt

Question 20

‘the chief qualification of a mass leader has become undending infallability: he can never admit an error’ -

Answer 20

Arendt

Question 21

‘Orwell has imagined a world in which the self….is no longer of significant value’ -

Answer 21

Howe

Question 22

“Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” -

Answer 22

Beauvoir

Question 23

“There is no sisterhood, only division and dis-empowerment”

Answer 23

-Wisker

Question 24

“The Handmaid’s Tale offers a horrific vision of things to come based on the exploration of things as they are”

Answer 24

• Greene

Question 25

“When a woman loses her reproductive capacity, she loses her primary function and therefore identity”

Answer 25

• Beauvoir

Question 26

“Memory allows her to…turn stasis into movement” -

Answer 26

Dvorak

Question 27

“An indictment of ‘excessive feminism’…exemplified in the narrator’s absurd mother”

Answer 27

• Mccarthy

Question 28

The work that the women do conspires to maintain the subjection of their own kind.

Answer 28

• Goldblatt

Question 29

Moira is Offred’s rebel alter ego

Answer 29

• Lee Briscoe

Question 30

Offred’s power is in language. -

Answer 30

Carol Beran `

Question 31

“while she does not belong to the upper levels of Gilead’s power hierarchy, she is no less responsible for its destruction of freedom”

Answer 31

• Weiss

Question 32

“responsibility… is to report, to chronicle her time, to warn another world… communication is imperative; she must assume a future audience”

Answer 32

• Rigney

Question 33

“wants to imagine these men as unique: … but the novel’s only significant male characters are in fact eerily similar”

Answer 33

• Miner

Question 34

“is not heroic. She is, instead, a passive everywoman, awaiting rescue”

Answer 34

• Macpherson