Animal Farm And The Truman Show Essay

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Animal farm and the Truman show are two different texts that explore the same theme. Animal farm is a text written by George Orwell it has the themes of happiness, everybody having a role and too much power is bad. The Truman show is a text created by peter weir it explores the themes of freedom, helping each other, going beyond and too much power is bad. Both texts look at these three themes individual good life, good society and what power is just.
Both texts answer this some of the responses are similar and some responses are different.
The next few paragraphs will compare and contrast how the texts treat these themes

Both texts explore the theme of individual good life animal farm does this through happiness and the Truman show does this through freedom. An example of an individual good life
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When Truman meets Sylvia he falls in love straight away. Then when Truman finds out that Sylvia is moving to Fiji he gets very upset until he gets the guts to find her so that he can have the freedom to live with her. Truman’s happiness is displayed throughout the text when he’s with Sylvia.
Boxer and Truman both look for a good individual life in these texts and are very similar

Both of the texts explore the theme of good society. Animal farm does this through everyone having a role and the Truman show does this through helping each other and going beyond.
An example of everyone having a role in Animal farm is when Napoleon and Snowball are both leaders of the animals until Napoleon gets rid of Snowball because Snowball is affecting the chances of Napoleon making his ideal good society.
In the Truman show Truman’s neighbors talk to Truman about pointless things and only ever make small talk. In Christof ’s opinion this is a good society but Truman is left feeling like he needs more emotions in his life.
Both texts are similar because two people were trying to make their ideal

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