Dystopia Critics

Winston is

an incredibly poor judge of character - Patai

Women are

seen as clearly other - Patai

The slovenliness of our language

makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts - Orwell

Slaves

of the media - Berkes

Linguistic

trickery - Berkes

No book is

genuinely free from political bias - Orwell

Portrait

of a nightmare future - Luckhurst

Language becomes a method of mind control with the ultimate goal being….

the destruction of will and imagination - Berkes

It is not a prophecy

it is plainly a satire - Crick

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that

a thing such as the truth exists- Crick

the configuration of the friendly into the….

threatening is a perfect piece of double-think - Crick

The strongest love is

 the warped love of tortured towards his torturer - Reese

Those who cannot remember the past

are condemned to repeat it - Santayana

Julia and Winston’s initial love

can only refer to sexual desire - Sherbourne

The Big Brother society is too well-constructed

  to break apart in the face of one man's resistance - Schellenberg

The hero’s Orwellian enthusiasm for the proles

 imports a silliness into this book which is rather a pity. - Lewis

Orwell tarnishes his female characters with

minimal intellect and passive minds - Dierdoff

Julia represents a third way to live…entirely in the present

Totalitarian states depended on the ‘Julia’s. - Linskeys

The party transforms conventional religious energies into energies for…

…its own purpose, giving the Party itself a quasi-religious air - Booker

Offred’s complacency and cowardice

 convict us all because we share it - Weiss

Utopias we can imagine

dystpias we’ve already had - Atwood

Piexoto’s account

 obliterates Offred as a person - Howells

Gilead has reduced people to their functions:

 control, reproduction, service and those who regulate those functions - Wisker

the regime’s assault on memory

has created an unbridgeable chasm between...Offred's memories and the signified of past reality - Finigan

Offred is caught up in a network ….

of surveillance and counter-surveillance - Hammer

She speaks in the present tense...discourages us from

seeing her narrative as fixed, final and anterior - Grace

Her body is segmented and her value is determined …

on the basis of her reproductive capability. - Reshmi

Gilead is a fortress

 of patriarchy. - Ehreinreich

Gilead 'thus relegates sex as a saleable commodity

exchanged for mere minimal survival" - Malik

Unreliable narrators [amplify] the terror of

 living under totalitarian regimes - O’Duffy

Dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties.

Now they reflect our realities - McFadden

That shared hope for better is like

a current that runs throughout history - Clay

We root for these people to break free

because we are these people - Condie

To the Bolshevist idealist, utopia is indistinguishable

 from a ford factory - Huxley

Political language ... is designed to make lies sound

 truthful and murder respectable - Orwell

There is no such thing as a history of our own times which

could be universally accepted - Orwell

Treats woman's body as a pawn

and her life as an academic question - Friebert

Within every dystopia

there is a little utopia - Atwood