![]() William Haber uses to put Orr into the d-state, where he effectively dreams (and thereby changes reality). George falls in love with Heather Lelache, a "harsh, fierce" attorney of color-brown (59, 125), who attempts to help him by investigating the Augmentor, the machine Dr. They both also had previous loveless relationships that lasted only a short time. ![]() George Orr in The Lathe of Heaven and Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four both love women forbidden to them. The themes of love, power, and the mutability of the past in the two no vels are also similar. Le Guin." I independently found this similarity and concluded that the likeness of names is more than a coincidence. John Algeo also documented the similarity between names, in his 1982 "Magic Names: Onomastics in the Fantasies of Ursula K. Franko notes that the name of George Orr, Le Gum's protagonist, resembles that of George Orwell (in Hassler and Wilcox 89). In her excellent essay "The I-We Dilemma and a 'Utopian Unconscious' in Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes and Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven," Carol S. ![]() However, the similarities run deeper than just dystopian scarcity and political repression. In all of Nineteen Eighty-Four and in much of The Lathe of Heaven, most people live in cramped, dilapidated apartments live on very little, very tasteless food and generally lead drab, boring, restricted lives in the midst of global war. Le Gum's The Lathe of Heaven and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four show strong similarities. ![]()
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