Nineteen Eighty-Four Critical Quotes

Orwell

George Orwell

"I beleive deeply in the english people"

"Disbelief in the existence of objective truth"

"Two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it"

Daniel Bell (1949)

"A human society stripped of the last shreds of community"

"Fear and anxiety the daily staple of life"

James Schellenberg (1999)

"This Big Brother society is too well-constructed to break apart in the face of one mans resistance"

Soviet Journal - Pravda

"In describing a most monstrous future in store for man, he imputed every evil to the people"

E M Forster

"Big brother also lurks behind Churchill and any leader whom propaganda utilises or invents"

John Atkins(1954)

"He was a weak creature who was born to be victimised"

Norman Podhoretz

"Orwell's ruling passion was the fear and hatred of totalitarianism"

Deidre Beddoe - Julia

"She is totally incapable of understanding the motives which drive Winston to revolt"

Deidre Beddoe

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

Beatrix Campbell - Women

"Women are akin to the proletarian man in Orwell’s work"

Russian 1950s interpretation

Oceania is present day America. Big brother and the thought police were FBI

Beatrix Campbell

“Part of the problem is that Orwell’s eye never comes to rest on the culture of women, their concerns, their history, their movements. He only holds women to the filter of his own desire - or distaste.”