Please compare George Orwell's 1984 and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, in a cultural context. How is law and order presented in both of these texts?

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represents the fears of totalitarianism experienced in the late 1940s.
Fascist Germany and Italy had only recently been defeated. Stalinist Russia was still going
strong and had recently imposed totalitarianism on Eastern Europe. Orwell feared the spread of
totalitarianism to England, and wanted to warn people against it. He especially wanted people to
be careful not to be deceived by the misuse of language.

McCarthy's
The Road, a much more recent novel, reflects fears of nuclear or
environmental holocaust. In his book, civilization as we know has been wiped out by some sort of
catastrophic event. This represents contemporary anxieties that humankind has gained too much
power to devastate the ecosystem.

In both cultures, there is no law, but the
two forms of lawlessness could not be more different. In Oceania, the lack of printed laws means
that everything is potentially a crime. Party members live in a rigidly ordered way under
constant surveillance and can be arrested by the...