Feminist Criticism: A Look At Female Characters in 1984

							Feminist Criticism: A Look At Female Characters in 1984
Examine each of the following characters with a feminist literary lens. Use the
guiding questions, but do not feel limited to them. All your thoughts and
observations are relevant!

                                      Julia
                                    Katherine
                                 Winston’s mother


Guiding Questions

On a separate sheet of paper for each character, deconstruct the female characters.
Provide page references for your observations.

   1. How is she depicted in the novel – what does she do; how does she act?

   2. What is her relation to male characters – how do men treat her; how does she
      respond to men?

So what???

   3. What does all this reveal about gender, power, society, etc.? What do you
      think Orwell is trying to say? Why would he write female characters in this
      manner?




   4. What does this have to do with you? How does it make you feel and why?