Sci-fi literature

1984 and V

This will discuss the evolution of scientific literature as read in books and seen in movies . We will compare George Orwell 's novel 1984 ' and the comic book V for Vendetta ' written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd

Orwell wrote 1984 ' in 1948 . It was published in 1949 . It is about Winston Smith and his job in the Ministry of Truth . Because of his participation in the country where he lives , his morals are degraded . It is set in 1984 therefore , it is a futuristic work . 1

p This book placed Orwell alongside the best novelists of all time . In 2005 , TIME Magazine selected 1948 ' as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to that year . The term Orwellian was also coined to describe the actions of Oceania . In fact , the phrase Big Brother is watching you (which is popular worldwide because of the show Big Brother ' is rooted from the surveillance that is invasive , as rooted from the book . 2

The lead character in the story is the Ministry of Truth bureaucrat Winston Smith . It is divided into three parts . The first being the life in Oceania , the second is his intellectual rebellion against the party and the third is his capture , interrogation , torture and imprisonment in the Ministry of Love

The country of Oceania symbolizes Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany after the Second World War . In the story , Oceania has a two-way television which serves as the surveillance by The Party . There are informants . Those who are incarcerated are tortured , brainwashed and re-educated in Room 201 . They are brainwashed to love Big Brother and The Party

The Ministry of Truth has media in Oceania . Winston 's job is to re-write the official records and re-touch the official photographs , removing the rendered individuals The accurate documents are dropped into a memory hole ' Winston likes his work but this makes him more fascinated and curious in learning the `real ' past

He meets Julia and they fell in love . Unbeknownst to them , they were already being observed by the Thought Police . They were then captured and interrogated separately in the Ministry of Love . This was because both were already disbelieving the ideologies they were taught to believe in Oceania

After they were both released , a chance meeting in a park ensued . They remember the torture and interrogation they went through , just to be re-programmed . The book ended by informing the readers that Winston completely accepted love towards Big Brother . Therefore , the degradation and re-programming of how Winston thinks actually worked 'V for Vendetta ' is a ten-issue comic book that is also set in a dystopian future . The location is United Kingdom . It was written in the 1980s about the 1990s

V , a mysterious anarchist , plans to destroy the His plans affect the individuals he encounters . The near-future Britain is almost destroyed because of the nuclear war . The extreme fascist party known as the Norsefire is in power . V , a revolutionary anarchist who wears a...