Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

Through his failure, Orwell portrays the dangers of a disunited society for the individual. Even though Winston willingly chose to oppose the Party and offered his life towards the eradication of his oppressors, his sacrifice proved futile without communal support to usurp the tyrannical regime. Despite the common suffering the people endured, their fear of the individual torment each would suffer motivated them to submit to the government. In Winston, Orwell highlights the frailty of an individual person in comparison to a mob. When imprisoned at the Ministry of Love, Winston’s will crumbled under torture and he even offered the life of the one individual he had earlier seemed hesitant to sacrifice, Julia. Hence, Orwell illustrates the need for a united social front for individuals to change the society in which they live in. Otherwise, self-preservation shall remain dominant within each individual, leaving them vulnerable to continuous manipulation through propaganda.

Monarch Butterflies are famous for their migration in North America. In the fall, these butterflies migrate from Canada to the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico to avoid the colder weather. The cycle continues as the butterflies fly back to Canada in the the spring. Just like the butterflies are affected by the extreme weather, humans can also be affected by the surroundings. One such example is the novel, 1984 in which, George Orwell explores the theme of repression using stylistic elements such as irony, foreshadowing, and characterization, he reveals how totalitarian government’s control on the society influences Winston’s life and even his psychological traits, ultimately warning the readers about the effects of totalitarian government.

Throughout George Orwell’s 1984, there is a lot of betrayal between Winston Smith andthe other main characters, some of whom he betrays and some of whom betray him. While lotsof these examples of betrayal are extremely important to the novel as a whole, arguably the mostimportant example of betrayal would be when Julia was betrayed by Winston. After Winston andJulia fall in love and are captured by O’brien and Big Brother, they are taken to be tortured intobelieving and loving Big Brother instead of each other. Winston betrayed Julia because he wasbeing selfish, he was being brainwashed by Big Brother, and O’brien was torturing him, whichshows Orwell’s point that totalitarian governments are not good and that people should hold onto relationships because

Winston hates the fact that she lives according to the Party’s teachings, considering he has many unorthodox opinions. Winston is evidently not content with his relationship with Katherine because he believes that marriage must be based on trust and love, rather than the fulfillment of the Party’s expectations. Winston finally realizes what it is like to feel for someone other than Big Brother when he encounters Julia. At first, Winston assumes that Julia is an agent of the Thought Police or of the Brotherhood, but it is not until he reads the note saying “I love you” that his thoughts change. It is extremely difficult for Winston and Julia to make plans due to the constant surveillance, so they spend time with each other by inhabiting the apartment over Mr. Charrington’s shop. For Winston, it is nice to know that there are people like him in Oceania, which is why Julia gives him a reason to stay alive. His health conditions also benefit from his love affair since “the process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice” (Orwell 150). Unfortunately, Winston begins to understand that Julia is not on the same page as him when it comes to the Party. There is no doubt that Julia hates the Party, however she makes no general criticism of it.

In response to adversity, Winston’s instinct is to resist and to fight back. These attempts at subversion are useless in saving him, for in the end, he is defeated in mind and heart. One way he defies Party rule is by hiding from the telescreen -- an item used for constant surveillance -- and writing in an illegally bought diary from pre-Party times. The act of writing in the diary itself is thoughtcrime, but what he writes in the diary, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”, is treason as well. Winston does this because, chained within himself as he is by his own self-awareness, he desperately seeks an escape from the oppressive walls of lies that have been closing in on him for most of his life. Even without quite knowing why, Winston burns with the need to know the truth, claws at freedom. Rather than being at odds with the Party slogan “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”, it is in perfect agreement with it, because his instinct toward humanity -- a mostly extinct construct -- is what enslaves him to his own destruction. Another way he rebels is by maintaining a secretive (to their knowledge, at least) and sexual relationship with Julia, who is ironically a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League. Since sex for the purpose of satisfaction is highly discouraged by the Party, the sex itself is subversive as it is pleasurable, and “their embrace had been a

Even though it is against the law to even own a diary, Winston buys one and begins writing in it. This represents his individualism for the reason that he can contemplate his own thoughts and write them down in this diary even though he aware no one except the government will ever read it. Having a relationship with another person is also forbidden. Winston and Julia carry on a love affair realizing they will eventually suffer consequences. For them, the ability to love and express that love is stronger than the fear of the consequences. With this relationship, Winston independently decides who he loves affirming his rebellion against the government. The government not only means to prevent people from having a relationship and creating a loyalty to each other, “Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act” (Orwell 65). To remove the emotions in people of love, attraction and eroticism gives the government further

Throughout George Orwell’s 1984, there are many peculiar, compelling events that take place, depicting Orwell’s presumptions of what society would be like during the year of 1984. Up until page 285 in the novel, there are many powerful movements, shifting the plot of the novel to another level. These powerful movements help create a dramatic climax in the novel, allowing the reader to develop a full sense of knowledge. The main character, Winston Smith, still has a rebellious attitude towards the Oceania government, having a relationship with Julia, and keeping a secret journal. Towards the end of “Book Two”, the Oceania government breaks into their room and begin beating Julia and Winston. Before long, Winston realized that Mr. Charrington is a member of the thought police. Both Winston and Julia are petrified by this atrocious event because it has momentarily changed their lives for the worst. This important event serves to prove that the Oceania government is aware of every single action and word of their everyday citizens.

Worlds that are similar; Oryx and Crake and 50 Shades of Grey In Oryx and Crake, the fiction is based on a speculative idea in which the world is based on the assumption of the future our past events have led up to. The author, Margaret Atwood touches on a number of complex problems such as human sexuality and the fact that it is quite critical in the center of the problems of society. In her body of works, she also writes about animal extinction, biotechnology, climate changes, and slavery in which are all topics that modern society is facing as well.

In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith works to distort and rewrite history as a low-ranked member in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth. He lives in Oceania, where the ruling party is in London. He and everyone else is watched by the party through telescreens, where you can see the leader of the Party, Big Brother. Newspeak, invented by the Party, is being instigated to prevent political rebellion and any words related to the crime. Having any rebellious thoughts is illegal and thoughtcrime is the worst of all crimes. Defying party laws, Winston starts to write in a diary and pursues a relationship with a woman named Julia. Winston is eventually caught by O’Brien, and undercover spy for the Party, and must reform. He is sent to the mysterious and dreaded Room 101, which is known as a final destination for anyone who opposes the party; and is forced to confront his worst fear, rats. Winston pleads for O’Brien to do it to Julia and not him. Giving up Julia was O’Brien’s goal for Winston and releases him. Winston is released from his solitary confinement and has accepted the Party, no longer having feelings for Julia and having learned to love Big Brother. We see how much impact the theme of rebellion and the topic of age difference have in this short novel. Both Julia and Winston conspire against the party and perform rebellious acts yet their differences in attitude and thoughts towards the party are quite noticeable.

Winston and Julia are individualists because they both hate Big Brother and rebel against it. However, Winston rebels at first by illegally buying a diary and then writing in all kinds of entries especially, ‘Down with Big Brother.’ He seeks to join Brotherhood and knows that his sexual relationship with Julia is only

But Winston thought there was something more dangerous about Julia than most women. At first, their relationship appears to be a political act of rebellion, Winston expresses that ‘their embrace had been a battle, the climax, a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.’ They both rebel against the control the Party has over their life, Julia’s rebellion taking the form of intimate relationships with men as she explains to Winston, “’Have you done this before?’

“Oryx and Crake” by author Margaret Atawood, published in 2003, this futuristic novel jumps between post apocalyptic Earth and the actions that led to its current state following the character Jimmy/Snowman and his role in this fable, helping the reader piece together the events that led to his faith as being one of the last humans left on Earth. Throughout the protagonist’s journey we learn about two individuals who are almost exact opposites the genius known as Crake and the innocent Oryx. Crake has been Jimmy's friend since a young age getting into trouble, and together Jimmy and Crake help mold and change one another, and like Jimmy Crake has his own dotted past. Oryx on the other hand is almost the Ying to Crake’s Yang. While Crake has

Finally, I got enough brain power to write about Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. I knew when I started this book that it would be good and weird. If you ever read Margaret Atwood's work, you would know that she writes about hyper realities and that she always has a message in her novels for her readers. In this novel her message was very clear but I will leave it for you to figure it out. But let me give you some background, so you know what you are getting yourself into. One thing you should understand that it is not science fiction since what Atwood describes can occur in many years and is not completely out of the ordinary.

In the year 1984, a 39 year old man named Winston lived in a totalitarian society set in in the nation of Oceania, in London, England. All of the people who live in the “Outer Party” were monitored via telescreens and were forced to believe whatever the ruling head Big Brother said. The history books were rewritten constantly to suite Big Brother. Unhappy with the society which he lives in, Winston decides to take the risk of writing a diary to assert his independence and protest against Big Brother, even though he knows this could mean death if anyone discovered it. Winston and his girlfriend, Julia confide in Mr. O’Brien, a member of the Inner Party and they both share mutual feelings in regards to Big Brother. Little does Winston know that O’Brien is a spy who reveals Winston to Big Brother and he and Julia are tortured until they share the same linear way of thinking as the majority of society and or forced to believe that indeed 2+2 does equal 5 and they “loved” Big Brother too.

The novel commences with an introduction to the ordinary Winston Smith, who in the midst of experiencing the totalitarian ruled nation, Oceania, hopelessly wants intimacy. Through his narration, it is evident that propaganda and other social institutions are in place as reinforcement of the unwritten law; including being vaporized and forgotten upon their betrayal to Big Brother. These societal structures ensures that the general population continues to stay disconnected from deep connections.