1984 and Brave New World
In Nineteen Eighty-four and Brave New World, the controlling states effectively manipulate the population's thoughts, through various controlling factors unique to each novel. In both novels, history is distorted or altered completely, and the emotions and thoughts of the populations are controlled by a successful combination of thoughts and ideas. The states in both Brave New World and Nineteen Eight-four are led by high-powered minority groups which oversee the rest of the population, although with differences in austerity. The state in Nineteen Eighty-four is controlled by fear, the threat of the Thought Police, constant observation and the brainwashing of the young throughout the education system. Brave New World teaches its policies through hypnopaedia, social predestination, and a state-distributed drug called soma, all which keeps the population content with their lives. In Nineteen Eight-four, the population of Oceania is divided into two groups - the Party members, which themselves are divided into upper and lower Party members, and the proletarians, which are a much lower class, and divided from the Party members. The proles in Nineteen Eight-four are similar in idea to the savages in Brave New World, in that they ar
Soma is the state-produced drug ministered to all the inhabitants of the World State of Brave New World. It provides instant gratification, without any negative side effects, and therefore provides an escape from any emotion they don't want to experience, and from themselves, and pursue happiness. Soma is used by everyone, and can be seen to symbolise the detachment of the people from their own humanity. As they can avoid any negative feeling or emotion by taking a soma tablet, the population of the state The Party not only controlled thought, they could provoke certain thoughts also. The Two Minutes Hate, which every Party member had to take part in, was something that provoked hate towards Emmanuel Goldstein, an apparent traitor against the Party who led a rebel party the Brotherhood. The Two Minutes Hate was a time when the Party members were shown videos of anti-Party material, and all their hate was directed at these anti-Party figures. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in... a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. In the end, the Party can achieve total control over thoughts. Winston is converted, at the end of the novel, to the ideal Party member, loving the Party and Big Brother without reservation. The Party wears defective members down, and unlike the persecutors of the past, do not kill their enemies. They convert them to their way of viewing the world, and the Party, and when they finally kill them there is nothing left of rebellion or hatred of anything other than that which the Party hates left in them. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. e left alone to live without the control the rest of the population live under, without rules imposed on them. They can be controlled, but for the most part both the proles and savages are left to live uninterrupted by the lives of the rest of the population, as they do not pose a threat to the government.
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Approximate Word count = 4502
Approximate Pages = 18 (250 words per page double spaced)
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