Parallels between 1984 and UtopiaLiterature is a mirror of life. To reflect their views on society's problems, many fiction authors, including Sir Thomas More of Utopia and George Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, use parallels in character, setting, government, and society to connect their works to reality. world. Characters are the appendices of a literary work, without well-rounded characters, a novel is not complete. In many situations, authors use some distinctive characteristics of a well-known figure in society to shape the character in their works. These realistic characters are the work's connection to the outside world. In the book Utopia, Thomas More presents himself as a character - the opposition to Raphael Hythloday's memories. Hythloday (whose name comes from the Greek huthlos, meaning nonsense) is a world traveler who sailed with Amerigo Vespucci, a famous captain at the turn of the 16th century. Using several real-life characters, More connects his work to the world around him. In the novel 1984, the supreme leader of the "Ingsoc" party, "Big Brother", is "a man of about forty-five years of age, with a heavy black mustache and robust, handsome features" (Orwell 5), who by government position, power political and physical characteristics, he resembles the feared Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Another omnipresent character in the novel, Emmanuel Goldstein, is said to be a traitor to Ingsoc, a conspirator of the party he founded. Goldstein has "a thin Jewish face, with a large furry halo of white hair and a small goatee beard - an intelligent face... with a kind of senile stupidity in his long thin nose..." (Orwell 16). Goldstein's image resembles Leon's......middle of paper......piece.Works CitedBrown and Oldsey. and. Critical essays on George Orwell. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1986. Fox, Alistair. Thomas More, History and Providence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Marius, Richard. "Utopia as a mirror of a life and times". 1995. http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/iemls/conf/texts/marius.html (14 October 1998). More, Thomas. Utopia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1975. Orwell, George. Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. Singh, Paras Mani. George Orwell as a political novelist. Delhi: Amar Prakashan, 1987. Works consulted Crick, Bernard. George Orwell, A Life. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Jones, Judith P. Thomas More. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1979. Meyers, Jeffrey. and. George Orwell, The Critical Legacy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.