Text Comparison on Orwells 1984 and Dicks Minority Report
... Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopic 1984, is shown as a hero by his ways in which he fights against the system, but succumbs to it. This is just like the second protagonist in the short story, “Minority Report”, John Anderton. In the first text studied, 1984, the key character Winston Smith is represented as a hero for how he attempts, but inevitably fails, to rebel against The Party and fight against the repression that has consumed an unaware society. ... In the short story, “Minority Report”, the protagonist of the text, John Anderton, is a hero, like Smith, for the way in which he fights against the repressive system of Government. This is made apparent in the text during the high-octane fight in the velocity cruiser. ... This is the same with the killing of Kaplan at the finale of the text. ... Anderton is the traditional hero in this text. ... At first Winston Smith, in 1984, was a poor soul fraught by the cruelty of the Party but still trying, only to end up denying his love for Julia and taking to the other side.