1984 And 1984 Comparison

The idea about human to reconcile the uncertainties of the past with a new or present situation. Throughout the year I studied the texts about, novel 1984 by George Orwell, a film Good Will Hunting and Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In these texts because the characters' uncertainty about the past, they won’t succeed in future situations in their lives. I'm referring from the text of how these uncertainties can have an effect for these protagonists throughout the story until they reach tougher situations.

The first really interesting aspect of the novel is the question of the narrative perspective. Novels often have an easily identifiable character as a narrator or the narrator can be anonymous as well as he can be part of the storyline, can be an outsider or even a sufferer of the events. Which is unique in the case of Nineteen Eighty-Four is that the reader collects information through Winston’s eyes, can feel his emotions and understand his thoughts. However the narrator is obviously not Winston Smith, but it is a third person. Nineteen Eighty-Four uses limited third person narration:

Ridley Scott and George Orwell both continually depict control in their texts through the utilisation of various techniques, in order to portray the effect this has on the characters of Blade Runner and 1984 respectively. This is done by both Scott and Orwell expertly and provides the audience with further insight and depth of the characters. Orwell and Scott respectively utilise the surrounding setting of their protagonists to depict the control that they are under, each author does this by likening their protagonist to the setting and displays evidently that the setting has impacted the characters. Motifs and symbols are utilised heavily by Scott and Orwell to further emphasis the control that is currently

War, torture, and constant fear, all of these are key elements in the distopia George Orwell creates in the novel, 1984. In this book, Orwell creates a society which is based solely on hate and controlled by those who seek only power. Orwell, however, is not the only author to ponder the possibility of an extreme, futuristic society. In particular, The Giver, by Louis Lowry relates a great deal to the themes found in 1984. Unlike 1984, Lowry's novel focuses on the idea of a utopia as opposed to Orwell's distopia. What is the most interesting is how though the fundamental idea of the novels are opposites, the methods by which each society is maintained are surprisingly similar. When one analyses The Giver versus 1984, it becomes clear that

The propaganda and surveillance between the United States today and Oceania in 1984 is eerily similar in the way that someone is always looking over you. Oceania had telescreens, which is essentially a screen that not only shows propaganda but also watches your every move. This is similar to what we have today with our cell phones and laptops. There is technology where our devices can see and learn what we are looking at, and use that information to throw advertisements our way. Imagine if the government could use the same algorithm to track what we look at and report it to the FBI? As far as propaganda goes I see many similarities with the way Oceania would tell their citizens information or the lack there of, and the way our media outlets

In general, the ability to think freely, have a variety of emotions, and express ourselves makes us human. In both “1984,” and often in our own society, these aspects of humanity are destroyed.

One of the first concepts discussed in How to Read Literature Like a Professor is communion. Foster explains, “whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion” (8). Eating together is a shared experience that leads to understanding and common ground between characters. In the beginning of 1984, Winston has lunch with one of his friends Syme. Although Winston considers Syme a friend, the two have differing opinions about the ideology of the Party. Syme is zealously orthodox, while Winston commits thoughtcrime frequently. Despite these differences, Winston comes to understand, “[o]ne of these days… Syme will be vaporized… It is written in his face” (Orwell 53). Only through the experience of eating with Syme has Winston concluded this

Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place in the year 1984, in a dystopian state (“an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror” (My Free Dictionary)), named Oceania. In this state, the people are always monitored by an all seeing, omniscient leader named Big Brother. The main protagonists name is Winston Smith, and he is a low-ranking member of the party that is in charge of Oceania. In this state, even the thoughts of their own citizens can be monitored, and thinking rebellious thoughts is the worst crime of all, known as thoughtcrime. All the while this is going on, Winston hates the party and is a thoughtcriminal. Eventually he meets our other main character, Julia; who one day wrote “I LOVE YOU” on a note and handed it to him. Like Winston, Julia was a thoughtcriminal too, and they then continued onto a love affair, which the thoughtpolice was aware of the entire time.

Since the beginning of humanity, there have always been the rulers, and the ruled. The rulers have always been the government, and the ruled has always been the people. One would believe that the government would be truthful and be interested in their people's well being, but clearly, this is not the case. In fact, lies are often more common than the truth. Facts are changed based on the governing party's current needs. The government wants to control their people, to have an unquestioning, thoughtless population that make them more powerful, as this is their main priority. As a generalisation, the government is more interested in their well-being than that of the people who drive it.

There are many similarities and differences between the government in both George Orwell’s book, 1984, and our present day government. It is the same way with both societies. The government and society in the book is very simple and the rules are straightforward. Our present government and society on the other hand is very complex and usome of the rules have gray areas. What both the society and government from both sides have in common is that they have a significant amount of violence. What makes the societies differ is that in ours more people have more access to resources while in the book people’s resources are very limited.

Overall, the majority of Cory Doctorow’s included code in Little Brother is influenced by 1984 by George Orwell. The parallels are ever evident since the cover page of Little Brother. The Party’s, or government present in 1984, leader is referred to as Big Brother. Big Brother watches everything, like how Marcus feels about Chavez High. On page 9 Marcus admits that he goes by the username of W1n5ton, Winston in Leetspeak. Leetspeak is the replacement of letters with numbers that resemble each other. The purpose of Leetspeak is the ability of communicating without keywords being able to be detected through a search engine. The main character of 1984 is named Winston Smith, and Leetspeak can sound familiar to Newspeak; the Party’s language void of words relating to revolt. O’Brien of 1984 is a superior of Winston, who is suspicious of him being against the Party. In Little Brother, Marcus encounters the same type of relationship with his teacher Ms. Galvez, though she never admits she is against the Department of Homeland Security. If Principle Benson was in 1984 he would definitely be a Party member with Charles being a Junior Spy, brainwashed into following Benson’s ways. In 1984, making a wrong facial expression at the wrong time could lead to arrest. Similar to Chavez High’s security guards searching and questioning students for making “odd movements” (131). Big Brother is able to keep track of London by placing cameras practically everywhere, compared to Marcus finding out “that there were hidden cameras in half the classrooms at Chavez High School” (85). Both majorly follow the setting of living through a time before a major culture change in both liberal cities of San Francisco and London – which could be tied back to Marcus’ mother being English. Both

There are lots of similarities between the novel “1984” and our world today. Here are a few main examples:

Ray Bradbury and George Orwell share a very similar theme in their two novels, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Winston Smith and Guy Montag work within an authoritarian organization, in which, they have opposing views of the authority. The novels are placed in a dystopian setting that the authority believes is a utopia. The dystopian fictions both have very similar predictions of the future. The predictions from these novels have not happened. However, it could be a short matter of time until the authors predictions on the future become reality.

“Do you begin to see, then what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias…” (Orwell 267). 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are both dystopias, although in each society, the government tells the citizens that it is a utopia. A dystopia is, “An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression or terror” (“dystopia”). On the other hand, a utopia is described as, “An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects” (“utopia”). There are many similarities between the society in 1984 and the society in Fahrenheit 451, as well as many differences.

Both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 predict a dystopian future where information is tightly controlled and the populace seems to care little for the fact that they are being lied to and manipulated into working for the ambitions of their government. Both governments in the story have taken control of the media and this the population, and both characters are apart of agencies that help keep the government in control of the people. In Fahrenheit 451 the man is a fireman and burns all of the books that he can find, this keeps the population dumb and easily controllable. In 1984 Winston works for the Ministry of Truth, its job is to help edit news and entertainment in order to keep the party in line and be able to misinform the prolls. Both of these characters unknowingly worked for the party and political establishment.