Frankenstein And 1984 Comparison Essay

Welcome back to my blog!!! From what I read so far about Book 1 of 1984, I can finally see the similarities between this novel and Frankenstein. Most importantly, both of these novels gave me a clear understanding of what monster actually meant. In 1984, Winston lives in a dark and depressing world that is controlled by the totalitarian government called as the Party. Winston is the only one that realizes that the Party is actually controlling the lives of the citizens. Most of the citizens would usually follow a set schedule from the Party and they would have to obey their beliefs. As you see, the Party doesn’t grant any freedom to the citizens. He knew that these people don’t stand a chance to revolt against the Party. However, Winston knew …show more content…
As Winston walks through the prole district, he is angered at how much freedom they are given because he is the only that realizes they have potential to overthrow the Party. The proles are not smart to realize that they have the power and number to end the regime of of the Party. On one side, the proles are given the freedom to live their life but they lack the intellectual ability to use this freedom and rebel against the Party. And on the other side we see that Winston and some citizens of Oceania would do anything to have this type of freedom because they are tired of being controlled by big Brother. Connecting with our theme, monster, we can see that the Party uses monstrous acts to keep their society in check. The whole point of Book 1 of 1984 is explain to us that sometimes we have to fight back to get what we want. Winston is the only one that wants to end the regime of the Party and he knows that the only way to do this is to rebel against them. However, the only problem is that Winston is the only citizen that has the mindset to do this type of act. Winston is willing to stand up against the monster because he knows that he can’t live a life that doesn’t have any