Imagine, sitting in your history class, while your Nobel Peace prize winner professor lectures about Hitler then he starts talking about how Hitler did nothing wrong. Then your professor provides a convincing argument to support his view, contradicting years of teachers, friends, and family telling you that he killed millions of people. How would you react to this information? Huxley's novel supports the view that “dystopia” is in the eye of the beholder. However, Orwell's novel does not support the view that “dystopia” is in the eye of the beholder. The character’s arguments on how they view the world equally impacts the reader’s decision on whether the novel takes place in a “dystopia” or not.
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John asserts that people have the right to be unhappy; “the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to be tortured” (Huxley 240). John argues that the world prevents the people’s right to live naturally without outside interferences. John argues people should not get “rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it” (Huxley 238). John argues that by getting rid of everything you take the easy way out of situations instead of learning to adapt and find solutions to problems. John claims that the soma that soma is “horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison” (Huxley 211) and that it kills people faster. John argues that the civilized people are slaves; he states, “do you all like being slaves?” (Huxley 212) to the Deltas who had lined up to get their soma as he comes to a realization: “Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful”(Huxley 210). John conveys that the people in the civilized world are slaves of the government since nothing in their lives is determined by their own decisions, but by the …show more content…
Similar to John’s view of the civilized people not dealing with tough situations, O’Brien tells Winston “you are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out” (Orwell 255). O'Brien is willing to get rid of people who don’t follow the party's beliefs. The Party cannot stand opposition and anyone who gets in their way they will eliminate. The Party is in control of the decisions and “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” (Orwell ). Essentially the Party is so powerful that the Party is able to change and manipulate anything they want; for example, “the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood” (Orwell ). The Party is going to great lengths to establish their dominance over their people. The Party is also recreating reality itself to fit their agenda. The Party watches over everyone under their command, so no one goes against their agenda or disobeyed them. While Winston was doing his morning exercises the lady on his TV screen shouted “‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. ‘6079 Smith W.! Yes, YOU! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You’re not trying. Lower, please! THAT’S better, comrade”(Orwell ). The Party even monitors and enforces people’s though as Winston recalls