Dystopia

Which quote shows the Party controlling history and truth? past/present/future 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Which quote presents objective truth as rebellion? numbers 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

Which quote reveals Winston’s violent hatred towards Julia before knowing her? 1984

“A desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer”

Which quote summarises the Party’s motivation? about power 1984

“The party seeks power entirely for its own sake”

Which quote shows Winston’s final defeat and is the final line? 1984

“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

Which quote shows ideological manipulation overriding reality?/ religion and reality 1984

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”

Which quote presents the future under totalitarianism?1984

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

Which quote shows Newspeak limiting independent thought?1984

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”

Which quote presents constant surveillance?1984

“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you”

Which quote symbolises Winston’s rebellion when writing in his diary?1984

“Down with Big Brother”

Which quote presents Big Brother as an omnipotent figure?1984

“The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power”

Which quote shows loss of privacy under the Party apart from the darkness?1984

“every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized”

Which quote acts as the Party’s surveillance slogan?1984

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”

Which quote reflects contradictory Party ideology?1984

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”

Which quote shows Winston betraying Julia?1984

“Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!”

Which quote(s) show Winston and julias ultimate betrayal of each other?1984

“The one thing that matters is that we shouldn't betray one another”

“He felt no love for her and he hardly wondered what was happening to her”

Which quote foreshadows Winston and Julia’s doom but also the inner death of party members?1984

“‘We are the dead’ he said ‘we’re not dead yet’ said Julia prosaically. ‘Not physically’”

Which quote presents sex as rebellion?1984

“The climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the party. It was a political act.”

Which quote presents the paradox of revolution among the proles?1984

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

Which quote presents hope in the proles?1984

“If there is hope, it lies in the Proles”

Which quote presents memory as fragmented when tortured?1984

“Besides his memories were not continuous”

Which quote presents reality as controlled by ideology and only real through memories?1984

“Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else”

Which quote presents Winston’s longing for freedom and humanity?1984

“He was in the golden country”

Which quote shows children indoctrinated by the Party?1984

“Had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police”

Which quote presents sexual repression as political control?1984

“To prevent men and women from forming loyalties (...) Remove all pleasure from the sexual act”

Which quote symbolises natural freedom outside Party control while reflecting the question of why Winston writes his diary? 1984

“For whom, for what, was that bird singing?”

Which quote shows Offred’s complicated consent within oppression?

Nor does rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I haven’t signed up for.”

Which quote shows women losing economic independence?

“Women can't hold property any more”

Which quote presents inequality within the new system?- commander

“Better never meant better for everyone… It always meant worse for some”

Which quote presents Offred alienated from her own body?

“I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely”

Which quote presents women enforcing patriarchy? (janine in the centre)

“Her fault, her fault, her fault we chant in unison”

Which quote presents domesticity as female confinement?

“Many of the wives have such gardens”

Which quotations present Gilead’s ritualised religious language?

Blessed be the fruit” / “May the Lord open” / “Praise be” / “Under his eye”

Which quote presents storytelling as preserving identity?

“I've tried to make it sound as much like her as I can. It's a way of keeping her alive”

Which quote presents narration as resistance?

“I tell, therefore you are”

Which quote presents storytelling as empowerment?

“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending”

Which quote presents the constant surveillance the handmaids are under?

“A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators”

Which quote presents constant surveillance in Gilead and Offreds outburst?

‘They look I said. They look in all our rooms. What for? He said …. ‘Jesus Christ, you ought to know’

Which quote presents ideological manipulation through drugs?

“We were on some kind of pill or drug… to keep us calm”

Which quote contrasts freedom in Gilead?

“There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from.”

Which quote challenges collective conformity?

“One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique”

Which quote presents violence justified through religion?

“They can hit us, there’s scriptural precedent”

Which quote presents women as property of the state?

“The small tattoo on my ankle. Four digits and an eye”

Which quote presents intimacy as reclaiming identity?

‘I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known”

Which quote presents desire overpowering escape?

“I no longer want to leave… I want to be here, with Nick”

Which quote presents destruction of the magazines by Offreds mother?

‘But there were some women burning books, that's what she was really there for’

Which quote presents women objectified within the household?

“To them I’m a household chore”

Which quote presents Serena resisting patriarchal authority?

“We just won’t tell him, will we?”

Which quote presents uncertainty at the novel’s ending?

‘I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it cant be helped. And so i step up, into the darkness within; or else the light”

Which quote presents wilful ignorance?

“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it”

Which quote presents religious discussion as political rebellion?

“In the past this would have been a trivial enough remark… Right now it’s treason” (do you think he listens)

Which quote presents resistance and female solidarity through language?

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”

Which quote reduces women to reproductive function?

“two legged wombs”