Comparing Animal Farm 'And Truman Show'

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Animal Farm written by George Orwell and Truman Show directed by Peter Weir are two completely different stories that explore similar themes. These themes are the good life, utopia, and power. This essay will be looking further into these topics that both Orwell and Weir have found creative ways and examples to represent the ideas.
Firstly, Truman and the animals all strive for the good life but is it actually achievable? To Truman a good life was to have freedom to travel and explore. Although Christof would deter Truman from water by instilling fears into him. No amount of fear could stop Truman from finding his ideal life. The animals fought hard to make their life full of equality and freedom but being controlled by Mr Jones the animals felt trapped and hopeless. Although getting rid of Mr Jones gave the animals a good life for a while, the animals got so caught up in maintaining their good life they let it slip away …show more content…

Peter Weir has showed us that an ideal society is not what most people would imagine it to be. In the Truman show we see this when Truman feels the need for more experiences and sensing true relationships not just neighbours who are overly excited and speak to Truman from afar. Cleverly Weir has started with the audience thinking the neighbours were friendly and just saying hello but by repeating the same thing every morning. The audience then start reacting negatively because we know that’s not what a good society is. In Animal Farm the animals all agreed a good society was order and a faithful leader. In the book the animals were happy to struggle through hard labour to have the order in the society Old Major sums this up by saying “let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle,” The animals sought after order and each person playing their part in society different to Truman Show which was less about order and more about true relationships and

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