1984: Similarities Between The Movie And The Book

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The story of 1984 has a movie and book and they have similarities and differences, but they both still get the story across rather well.The book shows a lot of imagery that can be seen in the movie. The movie has to be a little different from the book in order to make the movie interesting and not just a play version of the book. So in this essay I will talk about the similarities and differences from the movie and book of 1984. The movie and the book were very similar because they were about the same story which made it obvious that they should be similar. A couple of the major similarities were, big brother was basically projected the same, Winston and Julia had a relationship in both stories, and Winston's gets brainwashed into loving

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