Comparing Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four And 1q84

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Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1Q84 by Orwell and Murakami respectively have no peripheral relation except for the title. Both authors are renowned and implement different stylistic devices and literature. Their similarities exist are rooted within their core and is difficult to notice at. Reading both Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1Q84, one realises that 1Q84 has a lingering scent of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The exact similarities are more difficult to pinpoint because of the overshadowing of the stylistic devices. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written before 1Q84 and thus 1Q84 emulates the foundation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in Great Britain (known as Airstrip One) whilst 1Q84 is set is Japan. There is a clear distinct …show more content…

The biggest threat to the system is the individual aptitude than the collaborative threat. These unique individuals are able to ‘read between the lines’ and thus pose the biggest threat to Big Brother. These threats of Big Brother are brought to the Ministry of Love to be “cured”. It is also possible that the Brotherhood is true to their word and is fighting against the system. Whether ‘The Brotherhood’ or ‘The Little People’ are the opponents of the system is never revealed. Orwell and Murakami portray the ‘system’ as the adversary, the oxymoronic assemblage as the challenger of the system and the individuals (characters) as the external element. The rest of the general public are unaware of the events occurring in front of …show more content…

Winston and this child cannot escape from this continuum of life. The routine cannot be broken nor does anyone want them to break from it. They are both stuck in a ‘rat race’; a path which ultimately achieves nothing of significant meaning. Humans associate rats with squalor. Winston’s world is filled with humans who act like and treated like beasts (Two Minutes of Hate). In essence, Winston and the citizens are rats, trapped in Big Brother’s cage. Much like the orphan: if they were to miraculously escape the cage - then what? Abolishing the system and breaking the cage from the outside is more abstruse than escaping in the first

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