A similarity the two novels share is the type of products and the name used to describe them. In 1984, all the products use the term Victory in front of them. Throughout Toys I found a comparison with cigarettes. An example from 1984 is “He took a victory cigarette from a crumpled packet marked victory cigarettes and incautiously held it up right, where upon tobacco fell out onto the floor” (Orwell 5). Winston lives in the victory mansions and also drinks victory gin throughout the novel. An example from Toys is “Having said that, Moore lit up one of his famous cigars, his victory cigars” (Patterson 73). The connection between the two novels is that two products with similar attributes share the same name in two different books. I looked for
