1984 & Brave New World Comparison
A society of painless freedom has always been wanted. It has even been sought after by the leaders of nations such as Adolf Hitler. Two authors, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, wrote of these ideal societies in their works Brave New World and 1984. These two books had many similarities, but we will only discuss the following three: They both illustrated a utopian society, they both had protagonists who disliked the utopian government, and they both teach the same invaluable lesson. A utopia is a place of ideal perfection, especially in laws government and social conditions. In essence it is a perfect world. But can any world ever be perfect? Just like can any man be perfect? Or can any machine be perfect? There will always be malfunctions, no system ever comes without glitches, a human will always be a sinner, and a perfect world will always have people who do not live up to social expectations. In 1984 the government, Big Brother, brainwashed people to get them to act accordingly. They used ways such as the "reintegration" process as well as the "doubleth
Orwell and Huxley, though authors at different time periods, Orwell post-war and Huxley pre-war, felt the same way about the utopian society. Huxley referred to it as his "negative utopia." These authors greatly demonstrated what it would be like as a citizen of one of these nations. They also showed that there is nor will there ever be a "perfect" society. They also demonstrated to people why they should respect what they have, and to consider themselves privileged to live in a society that can accept them for who they are, and not what they wanted them to be. Just like no world could be perfect, the protagonist of each novel could not live in these "perfect" worlds. Orwell's Winston Smith was a rebel for the reason that maybe he wanted to defy authority that is why he started his diary, or maybe he fell in love in a society that did not accept love or maybe Smith just had an overactive sex drive and wanted a companion. With either reason he lived in a society that did not accept what he thought he deserved. Huxley's Bernard Marx was a rebel because he w
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