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Flashcards by Alicia Brown, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alicia Brown
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Tom Moylan - Nineteen Eighty-Four (Image of future) | "It uses the portrait of a nightmare future in order to launch a political critique of the present." |
| Roger Luckhurst - Nineteen Eighty-Four (Human resistance) | "(1984) does always seem very interested in the resources of human resistance." |
| TIME review from 1949 of Nineteen Eighty-Four | "Utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time..." |
| Jonathon Freedland Julia and Winston - freedom | "Their doomed attempt to taste freedom." |
| Roger Luckhurst - Nineteen Eighty-Four Private memory | "Orwell invokes the power of private memory." |
| Janet Joyce - The Handmaid's Tale Women | "It's the voice of a woman we might know, of someone very close to us." |
| Houghton - The Handmaid's Tale Mixed review | "Chillingly specific, imaginable night-mare." "Impressively steady feminist vision of apocalypse." |
| Barbara Ehrenreich - The Handmaid's Tale Feminist review | "Greeted as the long-awaited feminist dystopia..." |
| Paul Gray - The Handmaid's Tale Future | "Future seems more complicated than dramatic." "Offred's narrative is fascinating in a way that transcends tense and time." |
| Mary McCarthy - The Handmaid's Tale | "It is powerless to scare." |
| Robert Linkous - The Handmaid's Tale Offred | "Offred's monotonous manner of expression just drones and drones." |
| Onyett - The Handmaid's Tale Slave narrative | "Embellished with many characteristics of the slave narrative genre." |
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