The text Animal Farm, by George Orwell and The Truman Show, by Peter Weir, look deeply into the concepts of power the good life and the utopian society. Animal Farm is a book written by George Orwell in the 1940’s, which looks at the Russian revolution, but as if it was animals instead of people, and therefore communism and all that follows. The Truman Show is directed by Peter Weir and it looks at the life of Truman Burbank. But what Truman doesn’t know is that he is on a giant real life TV set that is focused on him and only him, in his town of Seahaven. Truman was raised there and knows no different, as well as the fact that everyone else is an actor. Both of these stories look at power and how it can be abused by those with it, the good life and how this different for everybody and utopia which looks at the good life.
Power is always abused, regardless of structure, as there was power before there was structure. In Animal Farm the pigs have all of the power…show more content… In Animal Farm, George Orwell shows that the good life is one of work and equality. All the animals work (except the pigs) “How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in” work was at the core of their good life. Everyone worked for everyone, no one was above the other, and this was the basis of Animal Farms good life. In The Truman Show the good life is centred on freedom. Peter Weir sees the good life as one that is free and where everyone is free to choose. This is seen as Truman chooses to buy a paper every morning, how he does the gardening and how he chooses to hang out with mates. In The Truman Show, Truman supposedly has the good life because of his gift of choice. Both Animal Farm and The Truman Show have freedom, choice and equality at the core of the view of the good life. Yet the difference between them both is their own ethics about freedom and how they believe freedom should be
