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Regimes/Dictators- Orwell

Orwell- 'Big Brother is watching you'

Context- 'Uncle Joe' Stalin

Mussolini, Hitler, Franco (Orwell fought in Spanish civil war against fascism)

Literary- We ' The Benefactor' (Zamyatin), Earthworks 'The farmer' (Aldiss) , children of men (James) ' The Warden of England'

Critic- Orwell said every word he wrote was against totalitarianism'

Resigmes/ Dictators- Atwood

Quotes 'Son of Jacob'

context- Biblical ref to the old Testaments (theocracy) satirising the rise of the religious right (Jerry Falwell and the 'moral majority'

Literary- The Carhullan Army (Hall) 'The Authority' , When she woke- (Jordan) Theocracy (abortion is illegal)’chromed red’, The chrysalids- (Wyndham) Theocracy 'It is a blasphemy against the true Image of God'

Critic- 'I had a fascination with dictatorship and how they functioned.' Atwood

Numbers- Orwell

Quotes- 6079 Smith W

Context- Orwells BBC number 9889, WWII concentration camps to dehumanise.

Literacy- We (Zamyatin) 'D6059' 'I330' Darkness at Noon (Koestler) 'Number one' (dictator)

Critic- 'Social Criticism' Booker

Numbers- Atwood

Quotes- 'small tattoo... four digits'

Context - Concentration camps control and dehumanisation genocide of Jewish people,

Literacy- A clockwork orange '6655321' (Burgess)

Critic- ' I would not include anything that a human being has not already done' Atwood

Uniforms- Orwell

Quotes- 'blue overalls' 'scarlet sash.. anti-sex league'

context- Blue overalls separated the w/c to the ruling class in Russia

Literary- We (Zamyatin) 'Grey Unif' , 'Blue uniform' Earthworks (Aldiss) 'uniformed cops' Is it your day to join the revolution? (Valentine)

Critic- 'Prodromic' Aldiss

Uniforms- Atwood

Quotes- 'A sister dipped in blood' 'wings around my face' 'Red shroud'

Context- Islamic revolution (1979) Red connotations with fertility (Mary Magdalene) , Canadian Prisoners. Middle East face covering

Literary- 'Regulators' The Carhullan Army' (Hall)

when she woke ‘chromed red’ jordan

Critic- 'The world according to Julia' Atwood

Phallic imagery to show power of regimes- Orwell

Quotes- 'Truncheons' Carried by the thought police, 'Dwarfs surrounding architecture' The ministry of Love

Context- (Hitlers secret police), Gestapo, (Stalin’s Russia) NKVD

Literacy- Children of men (James) 'State secret police', 'guns' is this your day to join the revolution? (Valentine)

'Apartment buildings' High rise (Ballard) , 'Offshore towers' Oryx and Crake (Atwood)

Critic- 'Political critique of the present' Moylan

Phallic imagery to show power of regimes- Atwood

Quote- 'Cattle prods' carried by the Aunts

Context- Islamic revolution 1979- Shah overthrown replaced by theocracy, Religious right ‘ Moral majority’

Literacy- 'Grotesque big pistols' Darkness at noon (Koestler) 'Service pistols and laser tubes' DADOES (Dick)

critic- 'social criticism' Booker

Phallic imagery to show rebellion- Orwell

Quotes- 'Dipped the pen in the ink then faltered' , 'forced apart the bushes' , 'forest of poles'

Context- Nazi Germany book burnings, Orwell wrote left wing essays,

Literacy- We (Zamyatin) d-503 diary Z for Zachariah (O'Brien) 'Ann's diary'

Critic- 'preventor of futures not predictor' Bradbury

Phallic imagery to show rebellion- Atwood

Quotes- 'Jezebels' 'An ocean of forbidden' 'The pen between my fingers is sensuous'

Context- Mary Magdalene's Biblical ref red symbolism Madonna/ Whore complex, Phyliss Schlafly ‘women should stay in the house’

Literacy- 'A book is a loaded gun' Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) ‘D-503’s diary’ We (Zaymatian)

Critic- 'Knowledge is power' Bacon

Resistance movements Orwell

Quotes- 'brotherhood'

Context- Denouncing/ fake resistance movements

Literacy- We 'MEPHI' (Zamyatin) Is this your day to join the revolution (Valentine) 'John Doe'

Context- 'Social criticism' Booker

Resistance movements- Atwood

Quotes- 'mayday' 'underground female railroad'

Context- Underground railroad helped slaves escape into Canada in 1880s

Literacy- the iron heel (London) 'The revolutionaries' It can't happen here ( Lewis) 'new underground'

'The world according to Julia' Atwood

Brainwashing- Orwell

Quotes- 'we control the mind' 'You are rotting away'

Context- Lobotomy usage, Propaganda in WWII, Project Mk Ultra CIA mind control experiment 1950-1975

Literacy- We 'The great operation' (Zamyatin) 'mood organs' Do Androids dream of electric sheep (Dick)

critic- 'preventor of future not predictor' Bradbury

Brainwashing- Atwood

Quotes- 'The republic of Gilead is within you' Moria is 'broken' by the regime

Context- biblical reference God is omnipresent, Taliban control of women’s bodies, Religious right Jerry Farwell ‘moral majority’

Literacy- Woman on the edge of time- 'Emotion control brain implants' (Piercy) A clockwork Orange 'the Ludovico technique' (Burgess)

critic- 'Offred individuality is inexorably broken down' Johnston

Surveillance- Orwell

Quotes- 'Telescreens'

Context- Nazi Germany secret police 'gestapo' CCTV cameras, ministry of propaganda,

Literacy-'Parlor walls' Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) (large tvs lining walls) We (Zamyatin) the 'one state' is made entirely of glass 'electric eyes' There will come soft rain (Bradbury)

Critic-'political critique of the present' Moylan

Surveillance-Atwood

Quotes- 'eyes of God' 'is it bugged?'

Context- Taliban control of women e.g. banning them from education, Iran permission from male members to leave the country, middle East face coverings,

Literacy-'Your offence was known to us' Ella Minnow Pea (Dunn) Fahrenheit 451 (Burgess) 'Mechanical hounds'

Critic-'I had a fascination with dictators and how they functions' Atwood

Secret Police-Orwell

Quotes- 'The thought police' 'Gorilla faced guards' 'Truncheons'

Context- Stalin's secret police 'NKVD' Nazi Germany 'Gestapo'

Literacy-Children of men (James) 'State Secret Police' Oryx and Crake (Atwood) 'Corpsecorps' 'the police are always watching' 'uniformed police' DADOES (Dick)

Critic-

Secret Police- Atwood

Quotes- 'Eyes of God' 'Guardians'

Context- Nazi secret police 'Gestapo' Stalin's secret police 'NKVD'

Literacy-We 'Guardians' (Zamyatin) Oryx and Crake 'Corpsecorp' (Atwood) Children of men ‘State Secret police’ (James)

Critic-'I'm not a prophet' Atwood

Fragmentation of family bonds- Orwell

Quotes- Mrs Parson's 'helpless fright' 'Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen.'

Context- Hitler Youth, Hitlers mothers medal Lebensborn programme mothers encourages to create “racially pure” children

Literacy-'The hatchery' 'mass production' brave new world (Huxley) ‘reached out to touch the child’ The road (McCarthy)

Critic-'

Fragmentation of family bonds-Atwood

Quotes- 'to be erased like that'

Context- The lost children of Argentina from the Argentina dirty war ( children taken from mothers)

Literacy-'Maternal norms' We (Zamyatin) ‘Industrial nurseries’ Logan Run (Nolan)

Critic-' Nightmare future' Moylan

Names and identity- Orwell

Quotes- 'Winston smith 6079' 'Mrs Parson' Lack of identity

Context-Winston Churchill Prime minister= hero, Smith= Common person, 9889 Orwell's BBC number

Literacy-' John the savage' Brave new world (Huxley) Z for Zachariah (O’Brien) Zachariah Z= Last letter of the alphabet so last man,

Critic-

Names and identity- Atwood

Quotes- 'Offred' 'Moria' 'Sister' 'Serena Joy'

Context-Of Fred patriarchal Indian Culture children take fathers first name and surname, Moria means powerful battler

Literacy-' Snowman' Oryx and Crake he's lost identity/dehumanised (Atwood) , D-503, I-330 We Zamytian,

Critic-

Framing narratives- Orwell

Quotes- Historical notes- writing in English rather than newspeak

Context-Critic of Stalin’s five year plan, Orwell fought in Spanish civil war against a regime, Orwell wrote left wing essays including animal farm,

Literacy- The Iron Heel - Footnotes show the ‘iron heel’ regime overthrown and socialism established.

Critic-

Framing Narratives-Atwood

Quotes- Offred's tapes edited by a male professor phallic imagery on 'tale' historical notes

Context- Pat Robertson ‘feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians’ backlash to second wave feminism.

Literacy- The Charhillian Army

Critic-'By male schoolers with not very feminist opinions' Weiss

Control of the body- Orwell

Quotes- 'abolish the orgasm' 'freedom is slavery' 'duty to the party'

Context-Hitlers Mother medal- Cross of Honour 8 or more children, Orwell worked for the BBC (propaganda)

Literacy-'sterilisation' Do androids dream of electric sheep? (Dick) We ‘Pink Coupons’

Critic-

Control of the body- Atwood

Quotes- 'the ceremony' 'business transaction' 'two legged womb' 'arousal and orgasms are no longer thought necessary' 'freedom too and freedom for'

Context- US fundamentalists reversing Roe Vs Wade

Islamic Revolution replaced by theocracy, Argentina dirty war Mothers gave birth then murdered, Taliban control of women especially education

Literacy-'The hatchery' brave new world (Huxley) 'uniform batches' 'I could never get an abortion.. its a life sentence' DADOES (Dick)

Critic-

Control of language-Orwell

Quotes- 'hunted down and destroyed'

Context- Nazi Germany book burnings, Censorship of regimes

Literacy-'It was a pleasure to burn' 'flapping pigeon-winged books' (Bradbury) Ella Minnow Pea (Dunn) banned from certain letters.

Critic-

Control of language

Quotes- 'These were supposed to be burned' 'the Bible is kept locked up'

Context-Anti-literacy laws in civil war states, Atwood burning books to protest, Nazi Germany book burnings, Taliban banning women from going to schools,

Literacy- Native tongue (Elgin) Women create a new language to rebel Vox-( Dalcher) Women only allowed to speak 100 words a year

Critic-

Nature as escape-Orwell

Quotes- ‘Golden country’ ‘

Context- Nuclear warfare, Cold war (modern readers)

Literary- When she woke () protagonist escape across border to Canada, Z for Zacharia () Protagonist lives in Valley,

Critics

Nature as escape- Atwood

Quotes- ‘Serena’s garden’ ‘Tulips’

Context- Global warming, Nuclear warfare,

Literary- We- Zamyatian ‘green wall’ ‘birds’ Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) Protagonists escape the ‘Mechanical hounds’ by jumping in the river,

Critics-