Truman Show Comparison

Animal Farm and The Truman show are two different forms of text, Animal Farm is a book written by George Orwell, and is about animals on a farm rebelling against the human owers and deciding to run a small society on their own. Whilst The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, is a movie about a man who grows up and lives inside a dome for the purpose of a TV show. Truman has no knowledge of this until the movie nearly ends, this is when he decides to escape. Although these are two completely different stories, they do share some similarities. They both tell a resembling message about the good life and where freedom lies in it, they both illustrate a story a story about power and what the leaders might do with it. However, their stories about utopia (the perfect society) are quite disconnected. The Truman Show talks about how when in utopia, no one would control and monitor every person's move, whereas Animal Farm portrays utopia as everyone pitching in to help toward one goal.

Throughout both The Truman Show and Animal Farm, Orwell and Weir tell their own stories about freedom, how freedom is the guide to the good life. Whilst both of these texts are different, the message they share about the good life have quite a few similarities. In The Truman Show, Peter Weir depicts that they key to the good life is freedom. Even though throughout nearly the whole movie Truman has the ‘typical’
Both Orwell and Weir had the same ideas to do with power. They helped us discover that when you have power, your actions can be justified. They both suggest that freedom is the ultimate key to the good life. But on the contrary, Weir and Orwell tell different stories about utopia. Weir says that to achieve utopia, you wouldn’t have people monitoring and controlling your every move, whilst Orwell says that utopia is everyone helping each other to achieve the same