ty, and Renault is a sympathetic Frenchman, who befriends Rick - Louis, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Sam of course, is stability. He can't be bought or sold, and is seemingly a constant, always there and never too deep into the problems of the world. Sam represents the carefree aspect in all of us, the feeling that we'd just as soon turn our attention away from the war and hum a tune. Parsons could be the Sam of 1984, the escape from reality. Winston wishes he could simply give in as Parsons did, to just pledge his allegiance to the Party, and live out his days in relative happiness (Parsons is even glad when he was turned in by his daughter). While vastly different, many similarities can be made between these two classics. Both take place in a world gone mad, where nothing is truth, and reality is always questionable. In 1984, we see that truth is temporary, and in Casablanca, people are not always who they seem. Rick and Winston both face the ultimate human enemy: the unimportance of the individual. Rick exemplifies this theme, as he relates to Ilsa: "The problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Simply put, individuals don't matter. That the events surrounding their world and time overpower those of the individual. In the world of 1984, we see the total eradication of the individual, and the loss of all personal rights. Winston and his comrades are part of the one, the Party, and any strives in another direction were punished with Room 101. Casablanca deals with a festive arena in the midst of war, Rick's Caf Americain, and 1984 deals with the opposite, a dismal view of a war torn London. Yet both of them are set in places that are different than the surrounding world. Winston hides in his corner away from the telescreen, where he feels he can think and write, yet he realizes that as he sits there, he was the dead. Outside Rick's a war...
