A comparison of “Nineteen-Eighty Four” and “The Time Machine,” with particular focus on the authorial purpose and how it is achieved.

... " A comparison of "Nineteen-Eighty Four" and "The Time Machine," with particular focus on the authorial purpose and how it is achieved. " "The pen is mightier than the sword;" an expression that summarises the central theme of both my choices for the wider reading assignment. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) and Herbert George Wells both apply an ingenious and extremely effective technique in their finest novels, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "The Time Machine." Their tool is not blindingly obvious, but rather like a Trojan horse, implanting itself in the readers mind whilst he or she is indulging in the storyline. Their tool, a concealed propaganda in a way, is the use of satire. Satire is the use of ridicule, irony, humour or other such methods to mock any given subject. Satire is widely recognised as a deadly weapon in media, and is a genre for moving picture and written text. I class "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

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