1984 And Brave New World Comparative Essay

When comparing two outstanding literary pieces 1984, written by George Orwell, and Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, media critic Neil Postman expresses his favoritism towards Huxley’s point of view for what the future would turn out to be in a point of view from the 1930s. While both novels have very little in common, both authors expressed their outcome of tragedy that they believed the future beheld. Where Orwell believed society would be destroyed by everything we hated, Huxley opposed with the thought that society would crumble to the things we loved. Huxley distresses the future society becoming a trivial culture, overloaded with information leading to egoism, and lost sight of the relevance of truth. As generation after generation is born, culture sways in the balance. Children being raised to not pay attention to politics and world problems because it is, “Not their problem,” is a prime example of the development of a trivial culture. The rise in disrespect and mistreatment from youth towards parental figures and elders displays the lack of importance. Orwell believed that a future society would be held captive of culture, but it is quite the opposite. Society in the 1930s and 1940s compared to today’s society is a wide contrast. This day and age is a much more liberal, yet accepting culture
Society’s mind believing that we are omniscient tells us that the truth is irrelevant and in fact trivial itself. Black and white once drawn lines now blending into shades of gray blur the truth and bury it too deep to discover a contradicting society. Is the truth really that important? Is oblivion and ignorance actually bliss? Although society has a constant need for validation and attention, we also are stuck in a rut of self absorbance. Orwell’s prediction of a captive culture is similar to the irrelevance of truth, whereas the truth is both shut out and withheld because it is unknown or not