Power justifies oppression - commander and obrien

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Quotes - Power justifies oppression - commander and obrien

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‘Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some’
‘If you want to picture the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever’

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context - power justifies oppression

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Fall of berlin wall 1989
1962 cuban misile crisis
Hirishima and nagasaki
Global war on terror 2001

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Ao5 - power justifies oppression

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Atwood coined ‘ustopia’ ones utopia is another dystopia
‘The dystopian writer presents the nightmare furture as a possible destination of present socitey’ - ferns 1999
‘Mens less than honourable intentions are cloaked in the disguise of benovolance’ - Dickinson 2017