Dystopia Critics for '1984' and 'THT'

"as soon as fear, //, jealousy and // are involved, the sense of // becomes unhinged"

George Orwell - hatred… power worship… reality

"[dystopian goverments] focus on // as a crucial matter for their efforts at social //"

Keith Booker - sexuality… control

"(dystopian literature) has done relatively // to challenge conventional notions of //"

Keith Booker - little… gender roles

"From the // nothing is to be feared. Without any impulse to //, without the power of // that the world could be // than it is"

George Orwell - proletarians… rebel… grasping… other

"[Orwell is] not a // of disaster. He wants to warn and to // us. He still // - but in contrast to the writers of //, his hope is a // one"

Erich Fromm - prophet… awaken… hopes… utopias… desperate

"// has died in Mr. Orwell's wintry mind, and only // is known"

V. S. Pritchett - hope… pain

"Orwell's self proclaimed // should have extended beyond the plight of the working class // to the working class //"

Beddoe - egalitarianism… man… woman

"// filter surrounds all his // personae"

Campbell - sexual… female

"[Orwell] // all his female characters with minimal // and // minds"

Dierdoff - tarnished… intellect… passive

Women are "either sexless // or // who've defied the // rules of the regime"

Margaret Atwood - automatons… rebels… sex

"Orwell's novel dramatically illustrates the gender // perpetrated by a patriarchal state that conflates // with //"

Carpentier - binary… masculinity… sadism

"the totalitarian state is inherently an // of erotic //"

Howe - enemy… freedom

"Julia turns out to be by no means a romantic //, nor yet an //. She just wants some hearty //, normally mingled with tender //"

Strachey - revolutionary… intellectual… sex… emotion

"[1984] reflects how ‘//' was fast disappearing from the world—a prospect that // him more than //"

David Dwan - objective truth… troubled… bombs

"Nineteen-Eighty Four champions the idea of //, but it is never made // in the novel what // really is"

David Dwan - truth… explicit… truth

"for Winston ... on its own, // is //; it needs to be accompanied by //"

David Dwan - freedom… insufficient… truth

"Truth is a tool for keeping people //, allowing them to // their masters and to hold them to account. It places rational // on power by committing both rulers and ruled to the same canons of //; all become // to the same anonymous //"

David Dwan - free… scrutinise… restrictions… justification… bound… sovereign

"to // human beings of their relationship to //, is to // what they are: truth-seeking creatures"

David Dwan - deprive… truth… destroy

"[Orwell] looked back in // as much as he looked //"

Meyers - time… forward

"Orwell reminds us how // our hold is on // knowledge"

Pimlott - shaky… objective

"Winston's // to // his identity is a mere // in the wind"

Pimlott - attempt… preserve… spitting

"those who cannot remember the // are // to // it"

Santayana - past… condemned… repeat

"with the control of the // comes the control of the //"

Theo Finigan - past… future

"The ideal subjects of // rule are people for whom the // between fact and fiction, and the // between true and false no longer //"

Hannah Arendt - totalitarian… distinction… distinction… exist

"under conditions of // it is far easier to // than to //"

Hannah Arendt - tyranny… act… think

"the worst thing you can do to somebody is not to make them // in agony, but to // that agony in such a way that even when the agony is //, they cannot // themselves"

Richard Rorty - scream… use… over… reconstitute

"//, in short, is //; and // is itself sufficient to sustain the three // of the world in their tireless activity"

Kateb - power… sadism… sadism… elites

"Big brother also lurks behind // and any // whom // utilises or invents"

E. M. Forster - Churchill… leader… propaganda

"in a world in which language has been //, by the idealism of // and // writing all that is left is the // approach"

Marion Dalvai - contaminated… philosophical… political… satirical

"language becomes a method of // with the ultimate goal being the // of will and //"

Jem Berkes - mind control… destruction… imagination

"one of the major themes in the book is the // of any human //"

Robert A. Lee - impossibility… relationship

"Orwell approaches 1984 as a // novel"

Richard Smyer - psychological

"this Big Brother society is too // to break apart in the face of // mans //"

James Schellenberg - well-constructed… one… resistance

"Oceania is present-day //"

1950s Soviet journalist - America

'Nineteen Eighty-Four is seen as a criticism of the // under Joseph //. This interpretation, however, does not explain the novel's setting in //..."

Wendy Hassler-Forestm - Soviet Union… Stalin… London

"I saw great // reported where there had been no //, and complete // where hundreds of men had been //"

George Orwell - battles… fighting… silence… killed

"hierarchy destroys //. Orwell's // is so consistent that the dictator is actually called //"

Bernard Crick - fraternity… satire… Big Brother

"the large mass of // does not find in themselves the need to think //, to question or to investigate what they have been //"

Bosche - common people… independently… taught

"// are akin to the // in Orwell's work"

Beatrix Campbell - Women… proletariat

"dystopian fiction can be a reaction to // and // society or a criticism of the // of humans"

Ruzbeh Babaee - capitalism… bourgeois… faith

"the // which the proles represent seems to exist primarily in their existence // the detailed //"

Robert A. Lee - hope… outside… control

"Orwell presents three ways of maintaining an // tyranny: the // of Big Brother, the presence of someone or something to //, and rewriting //"

Asimov - eternal… immortality… hate… history

"I believe deeply in the // people"

George Orwell - English

"two and two could become // if the // wished it"

George Orwell - five… fuhrer

"Orwell's ruling // was the fear and hatred of //"

Norman Podhoretz - passion… totalitarianism

"[Julia] is totally // of understanding the // which drive Winston to //"

Deidre Beddoe - incapable… motives… revolt

“a writer who never lived in // should have so keen a // into its life"

Czeslaw Milosz - Soviet Russia… perception

"the Party seeks // entirely for its own sake ... // is not a //; it is an //"

Isaac Deutscher - power… power… means… end

"if // corrupts //, // can also corrupt //"

George Orwell - thought… language… language… thought

"political language ... is designed to make // sound // and //"

George Orwell - lies… truthful… murder respectable

"reduced state of //, is // to political //"

George Orwell - consciousness… favourable… conformity

"political language has to consist largely of //, //-begging and sheer cloudy //"

George Orwell - euphemisms… question… vagueness

"//, a passion strong enough to make people act // and // ... no wonder the party sees the necessity of // it out"

John Strachey - Love… independently… spontaneously… stamping

"the greatest // of the totalitarian state are not // but aesthetic and // sensations"

Herbert Read - enemies… ideas… erotic

"in //, the most // slave can escape to a // world"

Herbert Read - love… oppressed… free

"Orwell was a // - always moved by //, by human //"

Herbert Read - humanitarian… sympathy… love

"there is no such thing as a // of our own times which could be // accepted"

George Orwell - history… universally

"Orwell had much more // in the // of the human // than he's usually given credit for"

Margaret Atwood - faith… resilience… spirit

"the // of Newspeak is to deprive the populace of a vocabulary to express // ideas, and therefore to make those ideas //"

Booker - goal… dissident… unthinkable

"the book stands as an eloquent // that we remember the // and // from it"

Booker - plea… past… learn