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Comparing Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four And Brave New World

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In the books Ninety Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley, the authors created their stories based on a utopian society and showed how it devolved into a dystopian society. In a utopian society, everything is perfect. Orwell showed this utopian society in his book, as how people believed it, by creating a society called Oceania. This society was a world of order and a world without big problems because everything was in control and everyone was under the watch of Big Brother. Majority of the people seemed to have no mind of their own as they only follow what they are supposed to do knowing that they will be punished if they don’t. The language was even modified to limit the way people think. A character in the story named Syme even said, “Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? (Orwell 52). Meanwhile, Huxley showed a utopian world by telling the story of people in the World State where everyone was happy and there was no room for negative emotions. This was done controlling people’s feelings by making them take soma and removing relationship in the society to make it stable. The people controlling the World State also “predestine and precondition” babies which means they control …show more content…

John was a different breed as he did not grow from the World State and he was a thinking individual who has read books. He can even say to Dr. Shaw, “I don’t believe it’s right” (Huxley 104). He knew that the utopian society that World State thought of itself was an illusion because there was no more humanity there. Like Winston, he did not win over the society, but he was able to uncover its faults especially when his appearance made the director resign from his

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