1984 Vs V For Vendetta
...the first communist leader tried to over take a country, there has been another leader planning for a revolution. And Orwell was one to speak of how he sees the battle to be. Orwell has written several novels on the idea of revolutions against a superior government; one example would be Animal Farm and 1984. He has inspired others to write there ideas on the thought of the future revolution from a dictatorship of extreme power. The film V for Vendetta is one example of an Orwell inspired story. In both Orwell's novel 1984 and the film V for Vendetta the protagonists Winston Smith and V live in similar difficult lives with extreme and controlling governments where they try to fight against there governments for the greater cause of freedom.
Both ideas are dystopias which mean a fictional society that is usually seen as the antithesis of a utopia. (2) The film V for Vendetta steps off of the novel 1984. They actually have several references to history specifically our world wars. And usually they reference history during the same time period and in some cases the two are the same. What most people do not know is that 1984 was written in 1948 and published in 1949, which means that Orwell wrote his book right after World War II.(2) Now here is my point that I want to show, during that time there was a lot of influence from different places, mainly the media that left the people worried. The book came out around the time that TVs were invented which was bugging everyone (I speak for the good people of America) during WWII. Orwell pretty much wrote what everyone was scared to think, the Government is watching us and the wars will never end. I speak of all wars ideological, cultural and mainly military which no one wanted. Orwell titled the book using his own Doublethink, the reverse so the year 1948 became 1984.
During that time Rutherford's "Brutal cartoons" which...
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