Similarities Between Macbeth And 1984

The first biggest connection is the entity that is responsible for all the violence. This connects Macbeth to the Party. Both leaders have total control when they rise to power. However both entities rise to absolute power in different ways, In Macbeth, Macbeth obtained his power by murdering the previous king. While the Party in 1984 obtained total control over many years in a slow methodical manner, gaining control from ignorance and fear. However both Orwell and Shakespeare imply a secondary person who can be held responsible. In both stories this is a woman, Julia and Lady Macbeth respectively. Julia is the one that temps Winston down his path of love-lust while Lady Macbeth is the one that convinces Macbeth to commit the regicide. Both tales imply that behind the actions of a man, a woman is pulling the strings. And both ladies end up getting the one they love tortured or killed. Macbeth and the party similar because they are the ones committing the act of violence making them directly responsible for the results, while Lady Macbeth and Julia are …show more content…
Shakespeare and Orwell describe the ways on how the violence is paid for socially, with one being hocus-pocus magic and demonology while the other takes the stance of dystopian, grey future stance yet both stories purvey the same meaning. In Macbeth when Macbeth takes the crown night becomes day, Horses eating horses and (3rd example) while in 1984 server manipulation of the young and the unbearable governmental pressure to conform to the will of big brother (something). At the base, the authors are trying to infer from these pictures that human progress has halted, we as a race can not continue to grow.

Macbeth and 1984 share similarities on how the author connects the readers with the violence they describe to the justifications and costs of it. Though each story does this in slightly different ways as expected as one is a script whole one is a