Comparison of Two Speculative Fiction Text

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Patrick Ness’s ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ and George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ are pieces of speculative fiction that present similar outlooks in to the human society’s condition. This essay shall argue that ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is more accurate in its representation of the human condition than ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’. Firstly, this essay will show that ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ asserts that the human condition is in such turmoil, that within the authoritarian future world, society is ruled by only a number of individuals and enforced by the over-ruling ‘Big Brother’ and is in a constant war with other large ‘superstates’. As shown by the fact that the inhabitants are inconspicuously ruled in a number of different ways, one of which is ‘double think’. In which, society have their own conscience and beliefs replaced by those imposed from above. Secondly, this essay will show that ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ expounds that the human condition is completely corrupted and fraudulent. The inhabitants within ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ are living in a overly dystopian world, where all males are exposed to the ‘germ’, which projects each individuals thoughts and beliefs into pictures and sound, called ‘the Noise’. The protagonist, Todd, lives in a town ruled by the evil autocrat, Mayor Prentiss, who dictates the lower class in society in a malevolent and spiteful manner, as shown by the character of ‘Big Brother’ in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Finally with these conceptions of the novels arguments concerning the human condition it shall be shown that ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is more accurate than ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’, because of the idea that society is ruled by a number of different inconspicuous and discreet ways as shown in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. It is thus that this essay will show that ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is more accurate than ‘The

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