Similarities Between Metropolis And 1984

Commonalities and dissimilarities of values and attitudes drawn from various contextual concerns allow audiences to recognise the resonance of context on changing perspectives. Contrasting historical contexts in Fritz Lang 's expressionistic film, Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell 's dystopian novel, 1984 (1948) confirms the extent to which texts from diverging contexts converge on inherent matters, as depicted in their scrutiny of the exploitation of power by unchallengeable authorities. Conversely, the texts ' analogous notions of the destructive potential of innovation forewarns responders of the possible consequences of unchecked scientific advancements. Therefore, through comparison of the above texts, audiences realize how variation

However, although Lang portrays the authoritative negligence of science, Orwell distils in the audience a sense of Big Brother 's omnipresence that mirrors Hitler 's stringent surveillance of phone networks during World War II. Through mass surveillance, symbolised by the technological "telescreen", we can be exploited to produce "an unending series of victories over your own memory", in which the high modality conveys the oppressive role of science in subjugating the mass populace, comparable to Lang 's oppression of the proletarians via machinery. However, Orwell stresses his fear of technology through his ominous tone "there is no way of shutting it off completely", demonstrating his belief that privacy is an innate and essential part of the human condition and consequently depicting the destructive nature of science towards our humanity that is analogous to Metropolis. Through reflecting similar concerns through the repugnance of concentration camps and Nazi regime book burning, Orwell 's use of hellish imagery and invented lexicon of "memory holes" that send waste "to the enormous furnaces... in the recesses of the building" reflects science 's potential to control our perception of the