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Comparing Brave New World And George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Title Written in the mid-20th century, two dystopia based novels left readers disturbed for the potential future of the world we live in. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four both describe dystopias in which ideology is used in order to control an innocent population. Being an antonym of utopia, dystopias are fictional societies that are portrayed as undesirable or frightening. With Nineteen Eighty-Four came Big Brother, thoughtcrime and a mind-controlling totalitarian state where citizens were controlled by fear. Brave New World brought soma, genetically modified babies and citizens being controlled by pleasure (Atwood, 2007). Taken together, these societies prevent the citizens from being human and living a life with individual choice. These authors imagined very different worlds, however the message they portrayed is the same. Orwell’s Ideas Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, once said, “If you tell a …show more content…

In order for Big Brother to create the fear it did, the government needed to be able to spy on everyone. There was total surveillance through telescreens in Oceania which further created fear amongst the individuals, keeping them from rebelling against the Party. Orwell did a good job in predicting the future of our world, as we have the technology in the 21st century he imagined almost 70 years ago. Through every camera and microphone in our cellphones, computers, and even TV’s, the chance of there being someone on the other side is questionably high. They are always on, and companies can use your recent Internet searches and what you’ve actually talked about to bring relevant ads to your phone. We are living in the era of Big Brother whether we like it or not. In the World State, there is an immense misuse of technology. They use it for biological engineering and changing the DNA in

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