Scapegoats and illusionary freedom

Question 1

Ao1 - Scapegoats and illusionary freedom

Answer 1

regimes rely on scapegoats to survive just as offred and winston rely on illusion of hope embodied by Moria and Obrien

Question 2

quotes -Scapegoats and illusionary freedom

Answer 2

(Emmanual goldstien) ‘the earliest defiler of the parties purity’
Jezabels ‘their sluts’
‘We shall meet in the place of no darkness’
‘Moria was our fantasy’ (Offred clings to her as a fantasy of resistance even as she becomes a tool in the very system she resisted)

Question 3

context - Scapegoats and illusionary freedom

Answer 3

Hitler myth - lying about success in the war
Jews in nazi germany
Aids pandemic 90’s Reagans lack of action rise in homophobia

Question 4

Ao5 - Scapegoats and illusionary freedom

Answer 4

‘In order to prove its right to rule, every regime must find its own scapegoat’ - kadhim 2017
‘We are warned by seeing ourselves in a distorting mirror of what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue’ - Mccarthy 1986