1984 and The Handmaid's Tale Critics

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Flashcards on 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale Critics , created by Alicia Brown on 25/05/2018.
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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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