Brave New World 1984
Undoubtedly, the thought of living in, or forming a utopian society has flashed through every person's mind, a few people have even tried to make this ideal dream society a reality. Unfortunately, within the pursuit of these societies the leaders become corrupt and begin to become paranoid with the fear of rebellion. Hundreds were murdered under the reigns of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin in what they considered measures to maintain peace and stability, one must also consider the hardships that the citizens were forced to endure while living under these oppressive governments. This dream of forming and maintaining a utopian society was immortalized in two novels dealing with the same basic ideas, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Both of these novels deal with the lives of main characters who inadvertently become subversives in a totalitarian government, however these two books greatly differ with the manner in which the government controls the population and the strictness of the measures taken to maintain these stability. This essay with compare or contrast the message and tone of each novel as well as whether the utopia is a positive or negative one. In 1984, George Orwell explores the man
y facets of a negative utopia. Orwell seems to focus on the measures that the government takes to maintain a public of plebeians who have no personality or identity and believe that they not unique individuals, but instead are part of a greater senseless mob of people who constantly work for a hostile and oppressive government which is involved in incessant wars. These people are taught to love, and then learn fear, their government while believing all of the propaganda that is constantly instilled into their minds as they willing follow their government without contest for the duration of their meaningless lives. The government controls all forms of the media (thus denying the people the basic right of free speech) and use it to personify the government (known as "big brother") and make it seem omnipotent, or all knowing and always correct. Forecasts are changed from one week to the next always proving the government was correct. As was mentioned before, many of the rights that present day Americans take for granted, such as freedom of speech and the inalienable rights of individuals are withheld from the common citizen, the proles. George Orwell obviously meant to portray a negative utopia in the novel 1984. In conclusion, both of these novels portray and attractive life in a utopian society - in one can conform to the rules. However, when people cannot conform to the societies in which they dwell (as the main characters of both novels cannot) they are branded as subversives and punished as traitors. A life in 1984 would be almost too unbearable to live and in Brave New World unless one is willing to accept the caste system and live a life meant only to produce (as a lower caste) or consume (as a higher caste). Thus far this essay has compared, but mainly contrasted the great differences between the societies in these two novels, there is one great similarity however: be thankful for having been born into a freethinking society where a person can be truly free. Our presen
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