1984 Critical Quotations

Robert Brown - individual

“Orwell imagines a totalitarian society which wants to eradicate the concept of the individual.”

Madeleine Davies

“A panoptic society leads people to internalise the values of the ideology which has trapped them.”

Rook Body

“The body is a contested site in 1984

Rook Rm 101

“During Winston’s ordeal in Room 101, his body has been politicised.”

Orwell

“All national movements revolve around some all-powerful Fuhrer.

Steven Conor predicted

“The most terrifying aspect about Winston’s rebellion is that it was predicted and controlled from the very beginning.”

Hopkins - Imagined

“Orwell has imagined nothing new in the novel that hasn’t happened already.”

Steven Conor totalitarianism

“[1984] is addressed to anyone concerned with the question of human freedom and the dangers of totalitarianism.”