Winston Smith And 1984 Comparison
By depicting the most horrific forms of dystopias, both George Orwell and Terry Gilliam successfully satirised the bureaucratic, totalitarian governments at their extreme. For this monumental task of lampooning the modern political system with references to past philosophers and authors, both Orwell and Gilliam incorporates very modest main characters. The protagonists Sam Lowry and Winston Smith both do not effectively fit into the classic ‘Hero’ type of behaviours, but are closer to an ordinary, or even sub-ordinary people which we can easily relate to. As both Nineteen-Eighty Four and Brazil mock the same obstinate government with the latter being a clear reference and a parody to the former, the two main central characters share similar
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Both Lowry and Smith start as middle-class management type employees, living in rickety flats which are technologically awkward and aesthetically insipid. Though there are some differences on the extremity, the two characters both work for the monolithic, stubborn government which they eventually attempt destruction. They two even share the same affection to their respective occupations: Smith is noted to love his job, and for Lowry, he refused to be repositioned to a more prestigious place. As their journeys progress, the insubordination of the characters is lead, or at least assisted by the supporting female counterparts which share a similar state of ideas with the main characters; both Jill and Julia either attempts modification of the atrocities they faced or witnessed. After a series of romantic engagements leading to the climax of their subversion, they are arrested in almost identical circumstances. The two couples both engage in a sexual intimacy and is awaken by the rushing sound of authorities coming in before they are taken away, though for Jill in Brazil, if we can believe Mr. Helpmann’s confession, was killed unlike Julia. The following torture after their arrest also bears similarity. The two characters are both interrogated by Jack and O’Brien, the very characters they believed were there supporters respectively. Their tragic end also bears resemblance, as the repeated affliction, both physically and mentally, eventually broke their spirits in a mind-blowing plot twists, putting their grand finales to the two modern Aristotelian
Both Lowry and Smith start as middle-class management type employees, living in rickety flats which are technologically awkward and aesthetically insipid. Though there are some differences on the extremity, the two characters both work for the monolithic, stubborn government which they eventually attempt destruction. They two even share the same affection to their respective occupations: Smith is noted to love his job, and for Lowry, he refused to be repositioned to a more prestigious place. As their journeys progress, the insubordination of the characters is lead, or at least assisted by the supporting female counterparts which share a similar state of ideas with the main characters; both Jill and Julia either attempts modification of the atrocities they faced or witnessed. After a series of romantic engagements leading to the climax of their subversion, they are arrested in almost identical circumstances. The two couples both engage in a sexual intimacy and is awaken by the rushing sound of authorities coming in before they are taken away, though for Jill in Brazil, if we can believe Mr. Helpmann’s confession, was killed unlike Julia. The following torture after their arrest also bears similarity. The two characters are both interrogated by Jack and O’Brien, the very characters they believed were there supporters respectively. Their tragic end also bears resemblance, as the repeated affliction, both physically and mentally, eventually broke their spirits in a mind-blowing plot twists, putting their grand finales to the two modern Aristotelian