1984 & Brave New World
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Both Aldous HuxleyÆs Brave New World and George OrwellÆs 1984 present dystopian views of the future of society. Written in 1932, Brave New World is set in the twenty-sixth century but is the product of HuxleyÆs reaction to significant changes during his lifetime. As Aliprandini (2) writes, ôThe devastation wrought by the First World War, combined with socialist revolutions and advances in science and technology, inspire various responses among thinkers of the day.ö HuxleyÆs social order ushered in by holocaust in Brave New World is one where science, technology, and the media are used to control human emotion and behavior. OrwellÆs 1984, written in 1949, is also an account of how a totalitarian state controls every aspect of human lives in the future. Advances in technology and the awesome lethal power unleashed in World War II provided Orwell with inspiration for his dystopian perspective of the totalitarian state. Despite being a product of the significant social changes and advances in technology and ideology during each of these authorsÆ lives, both Brave New World and 1984 are highly prescient in terms of the conditions of modern society. For in each of these works the author demonstrates how science, technology, and the mass media are used as instruments of control to suppress individuality and to maintain control over the masses. The use of the media, science, and technology as instruments of control is readily apparent
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topia presented in Brave New World, it ôevoked fears that we are on the verge of a posthuman future in which norms derived from human nature will be set aside.ö This is what ultimately drives the ôSavageö to suicide and drives Winston to alcoholism and despair. In 1984 OÆBrien maintains that the very goals of a utopia have been perverted by the creation of the society in which he lives under the control of Big Brother, ôobedience is not enoughàpower is in inflicting pain and humiliationàthe world we are creatingàis the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imaginedö (Orwell 220).
The typical norms of emotions, family, love and children are also set aside in each of these societies. Sex is used in Brave New World as a casual form of activity designed to keep the masses in control and not for propagation of the race. In this society people are programmed sex machines and technology is used to create people who love capitalism, worship idols of industry like Henry Ford, and alter any unpleasant emotion through the use of drugs. Instead of living through the joys and disappointments associated with human existence, people are spared any inconvenience like depression or the challenges of marriag
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)
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