Topic > Similarities and differences in the novel 1984 And...

The three sub-parties include the ruling class (Inner Party), the middle class (External Party) and finally the lower class (The Proles). Of all three of these classes, only the Inner Party has access to luxuries such as real coffee, sugar, and milk. Most of the population of Oceania lives in poverty and in fear of Big Brother and the Thought Police. Big Brother and the Thought Police use telescreens to observe people's every movement. In the film Minority Report the setting is the future of Washington, DC in 2054. In this perfect society, not a single murder has occurred in over six years. The "PreCrime" unit uses three humans (Pre-Cogs) who have special powers to see into the future and predict murders before they actually happen. The PreCrime unit must rush to find out where exactly the murder will take place with the information provided by the Pre-Cogs before it actually happens. The people of Washington, DC, are scanned everywhere they go through eye scanners placed throughout the city. This allows the PreCrime unit to track people. The settings of 1984 and Minority Report are different, but many similarities can be found. The biggest similarity is in the settings