What similarities can be seen through the human experiences in Orwell's 1984 and the poem "The Lesson of the Moth" by Don Marquis?

In both and "The Lesson of the Moth," there is a desire
to find the beauty in life instead of simply living a long time.

In
1984,decides to deviate from the mandates of Big Brother and pursues an
illegal love affair with . In this, he finds beauty that he didn't know existed, but he becomes
increasingly certain that his thought crimes and crimes of passion will eventually lead to his
own demise. He feelings are similar to the moth in these lines:

it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with
beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while

Winston Smith is also just an ordinary guy. His last name is the
most common in the English language, and he...