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Mind Map by Kieran Coyne, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kieran Coyne
about 7 years ago
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Critical interpretations: The Handmaids Tale and Nineteen-Eighty-Four
- Satire
- Bernard Crick
- " I see seven main satiric thrusts: the division of the world by the super states"
- i) media a mass agent of "prolerisation"
- ii) Power Hunger
- iii) Betrayal of intellectuals
- iv) Abuse of language for control
- v) rewriting history for political purposes
- vi) Toltalitarianism
- vi) Toltalitarianism
- v) rewriting history for political purposes
- iv) Abuse of language for control
- iii) Betrayal of intellectuals
- ii) Power Hunger
- i) media a mass agent of "prolerisation"
- "not just satire of communism, the imagery of Oceania does not fit"
- "So part of the satire is not about totalitarianism at all, but is a bitter rage that the democratic
franchise, mass literacy, and compulsory education had resulted not in an educated and active
citizenry but rather in a semi-inert mass society of subjects feeding off very low level, sub-literary,
thought-deadening products. "Dumbing down" puts it in a more cuddly way. Julia, it will be recalled,
quite liked her work. "But she was not interested in the final product. She didn't care much for
reading," she said. "Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.""
- " I see seven main satiric thrusts: the division of the world by the super states"
- Antony Burgess
- ""a comic novel". That goes over the top."
- ""a comic novel". That goes over the top."
- Bernard Crick
- Oppression
- "The state uses games as a social ritual to control the population" - SISK
- "The fact that the Handmaids are assigned new patronmetric names. suggesting how western practices of assigning women by the mens last name upon marriage defines men in terms of their men
- Reproductive freedom is the basis for everything else" - Steinem
- "The state uses games as a social ritual to control the population" - SISK
- Toltalitarianism
- "Surveillance is fundamental when it comes to keeping the Gilean people docile" -Nyström
- "surveilance in Gilead both physical and psychological exists between people" - Nyström
- "Surveillance is fundamental when it comes to keeping the Gilean people docile" -Nyström
- Human Failings
- "For all the risk taking... Offred is constantly afraid of making any choices" - Wagner Lawlor
- "even in the final lines of the narrative, she appears to be fence sitting"
- "even in the final lines of the narrative, she appears to be fence sitting"
- "For all the risk taking... Offred is constantly afraid of making any choices" - Wagner Lawlor
- Social heirachy
- Speculation
- "what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue
- "what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue
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