The lights go out; silence erupts within the theatre. The audience, comfortably seated in their chairs, prepare themselves to enter and experience a whole new world. On the contrary, a child is in their house, quietly seated on his pillow, back against the headboard he is creating, visualizing a new world in his brains as his flip through the pages of their novel. With every movie adaptations come similarities and differences with its novel counterparts. This is applies to the novel and film 1984 , written by George Orwell and directed by Michael Anderson, through the theme of “suppressed communication leads to an unhealthy society,” and the use of symbolism representing vice. Aside from the similarities, there is also a majoring difference …show more content…
A quotation that illustrates the theme in the film is; “ i have betrayed you” “i have betrayed you”(Michael Anderson, 1956). In this passage, Julia and Winston are talking after returning from the Ministry of Love after being essentially brainwashed. In the Ministry of Love they were tortured and isolated from each other creating no communication between them whatsoever. The Party took advantages of both of their fears so that they could turn on each other and with the lack of communication between them at the time, they did. They exploited isolation and fear to manipulate their citizens into believing in the Parties beliefs thus creating an unhealthy society as essentially no one is capable or allowed to think on their own. In addition, we a citizen tries to communicate their beliefs to others, the Party then abducts that person to suppress their voice. This, overall, leads creates a theme of “Suppressed Communication Leads to an Unhealthy Society” as the Party suppressed anyone else's ideas and beliefs but their own. The same theme can be distinguished in the novel as when Winston quotes; “Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the