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Brave New World Book Review Essay

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Portfolio #3 11-11-15 Humanities IV My last portfolio will be focusing on the book that we recently read which was 1984 by George Orwell. Reading this novel brought me back to when I read something similar in High School. In English class we discussed at Utopian Worlds and the government taking control of society and brainwashing all of those who lived within the community. One book I can think of is Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, also a movie that I watched called Equilibrium staring Christian Bale. The similarities that I saw in these stories had to deal with the advancements and power, whether that is being given injections of drugs so that the human race would follow the rules or having incubated processes for fertilizing embryos to sustain …show more content…

Huxley’s novel is a little different when it comes to bearing children. They have elective childbearing, which means that the mothers to not bear children anymore and so motherhood is indecent. As we know how sex was only a use of populating the human race and for reproduction use only, 1984 seemed to have children as surveillance more than anything. The people in the society never seemed to be able to trust one another so having the children there to rate out there parents appeared the way to catch those who felt feeling and recalled about the past. Having read both books, Freud is mentioned in both stories through his impact on sexual desires, aggression and how it is important to human beings even though they emphasize it in a totally different way. In 1984, sex becomes a tedious and meaningfulness act that is no more significant compared to how much chocolate someone can get a day. This is where Winston and his wife became different where she thought it to be a service to the Party where as Winston thought it was an expression of freedom and thought it was to be pleased and

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