To what extent do the novels Nineteen Eighty Four and the Road support or refute this view?

The dystopian novels The itinerary and nineteen 80 Four demonstrate the force and pull between the utopian and dystopian societies in their narratives. Dystopian literary productions often seems to be a deterrent to the reader the nightmarish lifestyles returned to us by individually individual protagonist characters dehumanized due to the macerate and barren lifestyles presented in each text. However, disdain this, the bleak settings seem to light messages of optimism, and to some extent hope, through the interactions of characters in each novel.In The Road the son and the father argon seen to be cardinal people go a counselling who argon non dehumanized by the sore apocalyptic society. They do not conform to heapnibalism, rape or murder however their cosmos is tested through the desolate landscapes and their lack of human contact and refusal to athletic supporter those they do meet in this new society. Although the father further has the male child his sympath y is clear as they are each other gentlemans gentlemans spotless showing he only lives for his son. We can in addition see the male child go to beds that without his father he would not be able to defend for himself and would be l wizardly.When the father asks him what would you do if I grumbled the son replies if you died I would want to die too/. so I could be with you This love between the boy and the father allows us to over look the apparent loneliness the boy has, with the humanity between the cardinal characters shining through. Conflict does exist between the father and the son, when they have diametrical opinions on whether to help fellow survivors or not, yet the conflict itself is not destructive as they always seed to a joint decision.Jon Wilkins. Theoretical evolutionary biologist and professor at Santa Fe Institute believe the son and the father are two individuals with separate wills solely their paths and fates are inseparable. McCarthy makes intent of gr aphology, or alternatively a lack of it, to show how desolate and dehumanized life has become, or perhaps draws attention to the things in life that really matter when characters are travelling a dystopian landscape. The setting is verbalize to be sublime.To enlarge the point, the authors intake of declarative sentences makes his prose bleak, and certainly positions the reader in such a way as to be able to empathise with the stark hoist out of grim reality that the man and boy are confronted with. McCarthys own say that he sees no need to blot up the page with supernatural little marks using as little punctuation as possible, enables him to present a narrative whose prose is as scarce and unwelcoming as the effective highway itself.These sorts of structural decisions on the writers part add to the sense of atrocity in The Road but ironically also contribute to the stodginess of the relationship between the father and son although the narrative may be to lack conventio nal direction the relationship between the two characters certainly does not. Another way in which the human spirit seems to be breathing in McCarthys dystopian landscape lies in the besotted nature of the world that is presented. The father and son must keep walking to survive, despite the fact that where they are walking to or from is not always clear.As a result their efforts often seem pointless given the inevitability of their death at the digs of roaming bands of cannibals. However, what is clear is that they repeat the same terrestrial every day, drawing parallels to the absurdity of life this alludes to thee Greek Mythology public figure Sisyphus whose cosmea consisted of rolling a boulder up a hill only for it to fall down on a daily basis. Mundane as it is want a nightmare, it is repetitive nonetheless it is through this repetition that the two characters manage to develop their close bond.It may be the case that the absurd of their journey is dehumanising yet it i s through this cyclical process that McCarthy allows their humanity to impress through. In terms of The Road the man and boy must walk, just as Sisyphus had to roll, however the absurdity of their existence is somewhat lesser than that of Winston from nineteen Eighty Four. Winstons life is also presented as absurd. Orwell constructs a world capable of induce suicide. The narrative is filled with a nihilistic and soulless atmosphere, where in that respect is no God present, devising the world seem like there is no moment and no essence to life dehumanising the protagonist.This continues to the portrayal of the dangers of living in a totalitarianism society when has the main objective of control over its subjects to some(prenominal) extent emphasising the absurdity of life. Through oppression and stripping away basal human rights through extreme restriction making, Big blood brother himself seems like an absurdist. Although there is no official law about it, it seems to be h arsh knowledge what it is expected for them to do so they are not penalise and placed in room 101.Orwells London becomes more absurd when there is no official rule to punish Winston, and hence more dehumanising as it is difficult to tell what justice is if individuals can not be candid on what you know is wrong and right, blurring the lines in terms of what the public know Big Brother is doing. Through the allusions to Everyman, where the Father in The Road, and Winston in Nineteen Eighty= four play as characters they also play a part of the Christian from the Pilgrims Progress, this is allude to the journeys and challenges presented to both of the men bringing another(prenominal) sense of optimism to themselves and to the reader.While this journey tends to out way the dangers and hardships they are divergence face on their way. McCarthys journey is a pilgrimage, the father and boy are inquisitive for a place of hope, and it is a contrast with Winston. He is searching for trut h in a society that is created through lies, and construct stories of the past. religion seems to be absent in The Road there is no god, but a slight biblical reference There is no God, were his prophets suggesting that he and the boy are meant to spread the knowledge of the last society. He said if he is not the word of God, God never spoke. McCarthy seems to use taken them from this world.So that we would think the prophets were taken from this world, and suggest a Religious war may have destroyed civilisation. Contrasted indoors Nineteen Eighty Four where religion is apparent and focused on the obstructer Big Brother as a god like figure although there is no formal religion. He seemingly has omnipotent and all-knowing qualities that dehumanise those around him into fear of him as a substitute of loyal feeling, as they know that Big brother is watching you. We see his use of power through the denial of the past and ever changing present that Winston has to work to keep the sy stem working the way Big Brother wants it to.Thus creating a society with no memory framework, they can not be truly counted as real if they have no retrospect razets as they continue to change, they just go along with the next composition because they have no way of thinking otherwise. This is familiar to how God can see everything and how it seems that they are continuously scrutinized this could dehumanise them as there is no sense of privacy, but in this society there is no way to avoid neither him nor can they get away from his followers. He also seems to be in a god like place as there is no way to tell where he is, or even if he exists at all.Although this could confuse the protagonists as they have their right to take aim their own religion taken, so their individuality has been demolished and decided for them. up to now it seems to give the impression of a very primitive religion ground around human sacrifice, although the sacrifices themselves seem to be presented as punishment for those who are deemed evil under the acts of a powerful of the saviour represented what is more dehumanising the protagonists as they have to choice but to be part of the sacrifice.Echoes of atravism behaviour are present in The Road with to us with the flashbacks the father has, each provoking a different feeling like with the Coca dope he remembers a time when he was happy and then tries to hand over these memories to his son. It provokes a nostalgic feeling in the father. He also recalls the time where he was close to his wife, he wanted to save her scent although remembering this is dangerous as it distracts him from the grim battle between life and death against the bands of cannibals.However the son doesnt appreciate this as he was natural into the post apocalyptic world and does not share the feelings of his father. It is also evident when they enter houses the son is cautious of the house when the father seems to assume that the one from his past is safe like in the memories, and how to the father it brings a sense of home, in spite of this it is still dehumanising as he is estranging himself from the new world it also dehumanised him to knows it is impossible for him to get back to these times.The soulless nature in Nineteen Eighty Four suggests there is a lack of aspiration their lives are laid out for them they have no spirit to do anything in a different way. Yet in spite of this experience Winston Smith offers hope to the reader through his actions, some of which present humanity in an optimistic light. For instance, there is hope within the proles as there are no restrictions as they are seen no better then animals, but they are free. Winston seems to be jealous when he watches the prole woman singing freely a song which was manufactured by the totalitarian world, making him have an ironic feel to it.In The Art of Fiction David mystify suggests that Orwells novel should be read as prophetic as it was written for the future. This view adds weight to the argument that it is not just a book about stripping away humanity if the reader sees it as prophetic then it would seem that Orwell is suggesting that the future king too hold hope, as well as the threat of inhumanity. Lodge remarks that Orwell draws on many recognizable features of life in austerity post-war Britain, as well as on reports of life in Eastern Europe, to create a depressing atmosphere of London.Orwells vision is bleak is beyond question, but to suggest that there is no hint of humanity and decency in the text would be missing one of Orwells key themes that he apposes aboard the cautionary nature of the book. Eventually, the worlds which Orwell and McCarthy create dehumanise the individuals from their societies in the protagonists eyes, therefore making them shipwreck survivors from their societies, the lack of justice present backs this, as they both have confounded legal systems and punishments are not officially known, although in th e Road justice as the new post apocalyptic society seems to be chaos.Winston is an unwanted but no one else seems to care or even notices and therefore he is dehumanised although he does conform in the end, it is forced on him whereas the father and the son are outcasts within the Road as two of the few people left who are not dehumanized by the new apocalyptic society. They do not conform making them different as they try to hold on to the fathers past giving them aspects of atavism, and an outcast for it, these characters usually can not survive in the new society, uncomplete society is allowed privacy, someone is always looking into their lives whether they are a arrogant leader or a cannibal