Similarities Between Mean Girls And 1984

On Wednesday We Wear Pink In life, there will be people like the Plastics in Mean Girls that will tell you, “You can’t wear a tank top two days in a row, and you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week...if you break any of these rules, you can’t sit with us at lunch.” High school, as shown in the movie Mean Girls, is a world full of cliques that centers around one ultimate ruler, Regina George. Janis Ian, the ‘outcast’ of the film, noted the school’s ruler as being an evil dictator that if crossed, would administer consequences. Society in school is often portrayed as a struggle between two classes, the popular and the outcasts, with the populars ending up on top. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, this description would be just the same. The powerful and all-mighty Big Brother, if crossed, would oversee consequences. For example, Room 101, where

Likewise, in the text, society is a struggle between the inferior proles and the superior Party with Big Brother being victorious every time. Although 1984 and Mean Girls are fictional storylines, they both portray the reality of school life in the world today. The social order seen in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, portrays the exclusion, pressure, and aggression between classes, directly paralleling the societal structure of today’s school systems.
Exclusion between the classes is shown in 1984 and school society through the separation of the outcasts and the proles from the popular cliques and the Party. Alexandra Robbins, a choice award winning author, discusses high school life and the ‘cafeteria fringe’, or the outcasts in school who often sit on the outskirts of the cafeteria during lunch, separated from the populars, in her non-fiction novel, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. In her book, she elaborates on why outcasts are often excluded and she comes to the conclusion that, “Like most outcasts in school—including many of the thousand-plus people I contacted for this book—these “characters” were