1984 Metropolis Comparison

1984/ Metropolis Comparative study: Comparing Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four 

1984 (G EORGE O RWELL) 

SET IN  1984, IN THE SUPERSTATE  O CEANIA READERS WITNESS THE STRUGGLES HE FACES AS HE WISHES TO REBEL AGAINST THE INNER PARTY 

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WINSTON S MITH A MEMBER OF THE OUT PARTY  WORKS AT THE MINISTRY  OF TRUTH

METROPOLIS (192)   

SILENT FILM ABOUT A U TOPIAN SOCIETY  FREDER THE SON OF FREDERSON FALLS IN LO!E WITH A WORKER MARIA MUST RESCUE M ARIA FROM  R OWTANG AS HE TRIES TO GAIN RE!ENGE MUST BECOME THE LINK  BETWEEN THE WORKING CLASS AND THE UPPER CLASS

HOW DOES IT SHOW A M AR"ISM PERSPECTI!E # MAR"ISM WAS FOUNDED BY  K   K ARL ARL  M AR"  METROPOLIS SHOWS THIS THROUGHOUT THE SILENT FILM THROUGH 

THE FOCUS ON CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STRUGGLES FACED BETWEEN THEM

THIS IS SHOWN THROUGH THE  I NNER PARTY  !S THE  O UTER PARTY   L IKE  L IBERALS !S  L ABOUR IN MODERN TIMES 

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TECHNOLOGY  POWER MUSIC

COMPARISONS$ LITERARY  DEVICES

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SIMILARITIESIdeas/ Issues raised in the texts:  The Totalitarian state controls the people to maintain the power and authority Values:  Core human values are compromised e.g. love, compassion, truth, connection, empathy Characterisation: Protagonists rebel against social controls Setting:  Futuristic urban settings where class structure are central to political and economic power Language forms and features/ film techniques:  Use of satire and allegory, of speculative techniques to warn of a possible future Context: Both tets written in contets of political turmoil and instability. Both tets, ides and values reflect contet

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DIFFERENCES -

Metropolis •

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Capitalist tyra-t .oused oeo-omi 0ai)or5ers are 0rou-d do36y pysial la6our 7 pysially a-d psyolo0ially empty

$rederse- e-0a0es 3it 3or5ers trou0 is so- as mediator $uturisti me0a%ity 3it vertial stratiatio- 7 ri o- top poor 6elo3

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Ruli-0 !arty2 values po3er .or te sa5e o. po3er !arty mem6ers are o-ditio-ed to diso--et 7  3o Mi-utes *ate se.or te state marria0e 3itout love or attratio)i-sto-2s u-ortodoy is rused 6y torture

Reo0-isa6le rum6li-0 versio- o. "o-do- i- te -ear% .uture

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Sie-e tio- a-d Germaepressio-ism i- lm% ma5i-0; Goti/-oir style; $uturisti sets;

)eimar Repu6li iGerma-y; Co-er-s: eo-omi i-sta6ility risi-0 apitalism lass divisio- moder-isatio- i-dustrialisatio- a-d te-olo0y seual .reedom eduatio- .or te masses

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Dar5ly satirial prose uses ima0ery to reate a very reo0-isa6le .uture; # limited tird perso- -arrator prese-ts )i-sto-2s perspetive o. eve-ts; &( i- o-tet o. Europe; Or3ell2s perso-al eperie-es o. Spa-is Civil )ar rise o. .asism a-d ommu-ism 7 totalitaria-ism 0lo6al po3ers re3riti-0 o. istory

THEMES IN  1984 otalitaria-ism a-d Commu-ism 

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pu6lised 1949 to 3ar- te 3orld a0ai-st 3at e .eared 3ould 6e te .ate o. uma-ity i. totalitaria- re0imes 3ere allo3ed to sei