1984/The Handmaid's Tale/Brave New World- Critical Quotations 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureDystopiaA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: CamayCreated on: 28-02-19 19:39 1984, Reilly (The self versus Big Brother) "There is only the self versus Big Brother and the self is, cruelly, not enough" 1 of 11 1984, Orwell (The human is not an individual) "The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual...your thoughts are never entirely your own" 2 of 11 1984, Atwood (Optimistic ending) "Orwell is much more optimistic than people give him credit for...at the time of writing the note, Newspeak is a thing of the past" 3 of 11 BNW - Mises (Sardonic irony in socialism) "Huxley was courageous enough to make socialism's dreamed paradise the target of sardonic irony" 4 of 11 "A brilliant caricature of the present that... ...probably casts no light on the future" - BNW, Orwell 5 of 11 BNW - Bowering "It is ironic that science, which has given the stablest equilibrium in history should itself be regarded as a potential menace" - 6 of 11 "The novel is more than a warning...Offred ignored, romanticised and accommodated... ...she committed the ultimate collusion of doing nothing" - THT, Stillman and Johnson 7 of 11 "Gilead represents the most extreme example of textual reductionism... ...for it reduces all experiences to a single perspective, a single story, and not even an unadulterated one" - THT, Grace 8 of 11 "As a satire, it contains humour, and through that perhaps some vision... ...when wondering how likely this dystopia is to become a reality" - THT, Wisker 9 of 11 "Technology exists a tool for... ...stagnation, rather than progress" - Dystopia in general, Grossman 10 of 11 "Dystopia is an imagined world in which... ...the dream has become a nightmare" - Dystopia in general, Anne Marie Thomas 11 of 11
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