One connection between 1984 and Animal Farm is the statements made by those in charge about improving conditions. In Animal Farm that is the extent of the pigs' argument is that they simply say that things are better. In 1984 however, they back it up with statistics on boot production and fake history books about how bad capitalists are. The extent that the party goes to preserve itself is a lot farther than the animals on animal farm.
Another idea that puzzled me about 1984 were the proles. What are they and why can they live like normal people as Winston says on page 165, "The proles had stayed human". It is another concept that I think Orwell really leaves unanswered.
On page 181 there is a perfect example of people being easily convinced of what government says, "His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings" etc. "It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened." This shows that perhaps good speech making along with making a convincing argument using emotion (tugging on heartstrings) is part of the reason why people accept what they are told at face value.
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