Differences And Similarities Between 1984 And Gattaca

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1984 is written by George Orwell in 1947 and the film Gattaca is directed by Andrew Nicole in 1997, are about how the protagonist of both the novel and the film overcome obstacles as they belong to a lower level in their oppressing society. Both Andrew Nicole and George Orwell have although written in different timeline both have portrayed how the world was in their times of publication. Nicole shows that there were lots of scientific research going on in 1997, such as cloning of the sheep. ‘Scientists in Scotland cloned a ewe by inserting DNA from a single sheep cell into an egg and implanted into a surrogate mother’. Apparently, they declared the of the world’s first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep; and in 1997 Mars pathfinder was launched.

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