Utopian Society In 1984

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The Eradication of Utopian Societies The government’s use of advanced technology helps them watch and control what the people are allowed or obligated to do. The authors of all three books chose to do this to make the bureaucracy seem more extreme towards a utopian society. The methods used to portray how the government’s utopian control over the people contains the relevance toward history, advanced technology, sacrifice and rebellion. So much power is obtained from the people while they are being choked away from the past from technology given by the government. This may be daunting to the people because they wish to do as they please with no restrictions. The information found in the novels give many types of relevance to history due to …show more content…

Most people circumspect the idea to revolt against the union though. The use of a political uprising shows that if the people truly want something, they will go through anything to receive their wants. In the novel 1984, Winston and Julia tried to rebel against “Big Brother”. They were trying to join a group of people that they thought was a rebel group, but in reality it was just the government watching the two the whole time. The two thought this because they were going to something called “hate week” to thrive against the government (Orwell 148). In 1984 as well as the other novels, a utopian society is feared that the political masterminds are watching at all times, making it hard to have the character's own arguments against the bureaucracy. The novel Brave New World shows the use of rebellion in a unique way. Instead of the characters rising up against the government, they just simply leave the government and encourage others to do so as well. This causes a conflict between a few characters and the society making one of the characters, John, kill Lenina “with his whip of cords” and later committing suicide at the end of the novel (Huxley 257). In this case as well, rebellion was not a good answer for the people because it took away the people’s protection from what was thought to be, utopian government. The author’s use of a revolution can also be found in the novel Fahrenheit 451, when Montag is caught rebelling from the union when he steals his first book. Of course this isn’t a physical rebellion from the government but it most definitely is a mental beat down. When he first took the book he didn’t realise what he actual has done and how it could affect his life until he went home. When he entered his house, he instantly knew that it was a bad idea to steal the book causing him to hide it, which makes him paranoid that the