If you mean the 1984 movie staring John Hurt, then basically everything. Radford did an amazing job at recreating the movie in accordance with the book. Some very important similarities are room 101, Winston's relationship with Julia, the book, O'Brian, Winston's fear of rats, and the poem.
As Orwell had predicted, I think that technology has become an important part of society now. Technology advances are rapid and it's all over our lives now. Another thing which I think reflects our society now is the telescreen which appeared in the novel. Although it's abit different from the spy cams we have all over our town now, I think the idea fits. We have spy cams in alot of places now, watching our movements and actions in our lives.
He wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in response to the Leftists of his own country accepting Stalin's government as a form of socialism, when in practice, it was very different. This is also the origin of the novel's "Doublethink" concept - people were accepting two contradictory meanings to socialism.
1984 was written as a novel, it seems to have become an instruction manual for many of today' governments.
A few of the parallels are that in both 1984 and today's world:
- there is continuous war against shadowy enemies
- citizens are under constant surveillance
- history is revised to promote the present status
- news is spun to the benefit of the leaders
- shortages and rationing are common
- citizens who don't conform are arrested
- military virtues are praised
- hating foreigners as "the enemy" is common
- news serves the state
- secret police are everywhere
- citizens give up liberty and privacy for security
- infrastructure is secondary to the war effort
- the leader is distant
"big brother is watching you when...."
you go to a store-cameras
traffic lights-cameras
.....its actually really similar to the world today
Invasion/restriction of privacy.
Frequent wars.
He says its because they cannot, that the Party is forever and can't be overthrown. Also earlier in the book its mentioned that they have no need.
allegory
George Orwell's novel Ninteen Eighty-Four employs language that we now know today as 'Doublespeak' ~ see related link below .
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
Winston lives in a utopian society dominated by 'Big Brother.' He rebels with Julia, another seemingly conscious human, but is in the end betrayed by the other humans he assumed to be in rebellion. It is a tale of control and the endurance of the human spirit in facing hopeless situations, and the power of the proletariat class and the misery associated with apparent political 'perfection.'
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dystopian
Animal farm
Totalitarian
the pig
George Orwell's birth name was Eric Blair.
Snowball is a pig (a boar).
Winston Smith
Winston stayed with Julia in Mr. Charringtons room where he believed there to be no telescreens.
George Orwell was a socialist. He definitely opposed communism, you can tell by what happened to the communist settlement in "Animal Farm".
Julia is selected to work in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. She is chosen for a job that involves producing propaganda and altering historical records to manipulate the truth.
George A. Owen has written: 'The law relating to weights and measures'