1984 & Other Literature

 

1984 and other literature, movies, etc: influences, similarities

 

Animal Farm & 1984: overlap; how do symbols/allegorical characters in AF correspond to

characters/settings/events, etc in 1984

 

Parallels between 1984 and some other work of art (book, movie, play, ?) and 1984

 

What feature(s) does 1984 share with _____? (movie, book, etc.)

 

Orwellian elements in  ______

 

How does 1984 belong in the same class as _____?

 

Mind control in 1984 and ______.

 

Examples of required/involuntary community service in 1984 (can be tied in with articles).

 

The Machine: 1984, The Matrix, and THX 1138 (or something else)

 

comparisons to Animal Farm, Brave New World, 1985, The Time Machine, We, The Handmaid's        Tale, The Giver, and others

 

One way the items presented below can be used to come up with a good idea for your paper is to use them to fill in the blanks in the sentence below.

 

             Similarities between _______________ in 1984 and _____________________.

 

For instance, you might do something like this to come up with a topic:

 

Cults of Personality: Similarities between Big Brother in 1984 and Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

 

In this paper, obviously, you’d explain what’s meant by Cult of Personality and then argue that it applies to Big Brother in the novel, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.

 

Or you could write it with a twist:

 

             1984, the USSR, Hitler’s Germany, and Red China: Political Indoctrination of Children

 

             1984’s O’Brien: Some Historical Parallels

 

             1984’s Oceania: Parallels in Hitler’s Germany (or somewhere else)