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1984 and The Handmaid's Tale Critics
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- 1Tom 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."
- 2Roger Luckhurst - Nineteen Eighty-Four (Human resistance)"(1984) does always seem very interested in the resources of human resistance."
- 3TIME review from 1949 of Nineteen Eighty-Four"Utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time..."
- 4Jonathon Freedland Julia and Winston - freedom"Their doomed attempt to taste freedom."
- 5Roger Luckhurst - Nineteen Eighty-Four Private memory"Orwell invokes the power of private memory."
- 6Janet Joyce - The Handmaid's Tale Women"It's the voice of a woman we might know, of someone very close to us."
- 7Houghton - The Handmaid's Tale Mixed review"Chillingly specific, imaginable night-mare."
"Impressively steady feminist vision of apocalypse." - 8Barbara Ehrenreich - The Handmaid's Tale Feminist review"Greeted as the long-awaited feminist dystopia..."
- 9Paul 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." - 10Mary McCarthy - The Handmaid's Tale"It is powerless to scare."
- 11Robert Linkous - The Handmaid's Tale Offred"Offred's monotonous manner of expression just drones and drones."
- 12Onyett - The Handmaid's Tale Slave narrative"Embellished with many characteristics of the slave narrative genre."
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