Without Change What Will be Left?
Politics shape the way our society lives and operates, whether it be joyous, or a completely controlled dystopia. Comparing George Orwell’s novel 1984 to the song “Mad World” by Gary Jules, the pieces of literature describe a repetitive/mad world through the perspective of the novel and song’s characters. In “Mad World”, Jules’ ‘character’ thinks everyone around him is “Going nowhere” (Mad World, 4) and that this world is portrayed as a sad, boring place which relates to the setting in the book, Oceania. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” (1984, 50) a character from the novel named Syme is explaining how the government that runs the country of Oceania, Big Brother is trying to create a simple, yet mad society that some characters in the book, want to rebel against. Winston (1984) for example, knows that the proles “will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (1984, 70) by this he means the people or “proles” (1984) living in poverty are waiting for the government to fix the issues in Oceania so they can end up with a fair and normal district. “Children waiting for the day they feel good” (Mad World, 17) In relation to the proles, without change in the way society is heading, not a single prole, …show more content…
Becoming aware of needed change, is the first step to taking action against our setbacks in life. We can try to escape reality to fulfill a better life, but without realizing how far you can push these desires, it can lead to your own downfall. Winston from Orwell’s ‘1984”, and Gary Jule’s in his own “Mad World” have realized that leaving their own realities for too long, can lead to a point of self demise, where their controlling and mad worlds have once again, taken
Politics shape the way our society lives and operates, whether it be joyous, or a completely controlled dystopia. Comparing George Orwell’s novel 1984 to the song “Mad World” by Gary Jules, the pieces of literature describe a repetitive/mad world through the perspective of the novel and song’s characters. In “Mad World”, Jules’ ‘character’ thinks everyone around him is “Going nowhere” (Mad World, 4) and that this world is portrayed as a sad, boring place which relates to the setting in the book, Oceania. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” (1984, 50) a character from the novel named Syme is explaining how the government that runs the country of Oceania, Big Brother is trying to create a simple, yet mad society that some characters in the book, want to rebel against. Winston (1984) for example, knows that the proles “will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (1984, 70) by this he means the people or “proles” (1984) living in poverty are waiting for the government to fix the issues in Oceania so they can end up with a fair and normal district. “Children waiting for the day they feel good” (Mad World, 17) In relation to the proles, without change in the way society is heading, not a single prole, …show more content…
Becoming aware of needed change, is the first step to taking action against our setbacks in life. We can try to escape reality to fulfill a better life, but without realizing how far you can push these desires, it can lead to your own downfall. Winston from Orwell’s ‘1984”, and Gary Jule’s in his own “Mad World” have realized that leaving their own realities for too long, can lead to a point of self demise, where their controlling and mad worlds have once again, taken