Brave New World Technology Essay
The Exploitation of Love and Technology
In the Dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley create atmospheres that consist of their prediction of the future. “1984” and Brave New World contain totalitarian governments that encompass distorted views on the way societies should behave. Although the two leaders in the novels, Big Brother and His Fordship, carry out their regulations differently, the idea of how to control a society remains consistent. The key to maintain and establish a successful totalitarian society is through controlling the ideology toward personal relations and correctly using the advancement of technology for the “common good”.
In 1984, Big Brother advocates a totalitarian society through …show more content…
His Fordship uses the innovative technology as a distraction, so his “perfectly” conditioned specimens obtain the ability to generate the illusion of a seemingly flawless and stable society. Lenina said, “’But it 's horrible,’… She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night… ‘Let 's turn on the radio. Quick!’… ‘Skies are blue inside of you,’ sang sixteen tremoloing falsettos’” (Huxley 90). The radio coincidentally plays that song as Bernard shows Lenina the bad storm stirring up on the English Channel. Technology covers the unpleasant parts of reality; consequently, the citizens become feeble and unaware to the genuine nature of life. Later in the novel, Lenina goes to the “GIRLS ' DRESSING-ROOM … Torrents of hot water… eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens… a machine was warbling out a super-cornet solo.” (36). These perks of a technological age shields the horrendous side effects of actually having advanced technology. Daily activities are much easier; one does not struggle in order to achieve what is needed. The ease within this life disguises the truth that lies behind it: “ 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune [rather than] abolish the slings and arrows’” (238). Technology distracts the citizens from the non- pleasant reality; they do not understand
In the Dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley create atmospheres that consist of their prediction of the future. “1984” and Brave New World contain totalitarian governments that encompass distorted views on the way societies should behave. Although the two leaders in the novels, Big Brother and His Fordship, carry out their regulations differently, the idea of how to control a society remains consistent. The key to maintain and establish a successful totalitarian society is through controlling the ideology toward personal relations and correctly using the advancement of technology for the “common good”.
In 1984, Big Brother advocates a totalitarian society through …show more content…
His Fordship uses the innovative technology as a distraction, so his “perfectly” conditioned specimens obtain the ability to generate the illusion of a seemingly flawless and stable society. Lenina said, “’But it 's horrible,’… She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night… ‘Let 's turn on the radio. Quick!’… ‘Skies are blue inside of you,’ sang sixteen tremoloing falsettos’” (Huxley 90). The radio coincidentally plays that song as Bernard shows Lenina the bad storm stirring up on the English Channel. Technology covers the unpleasant parts of reality; consequently, the citizens become feeble and unaware to the genuine nature of life. Later in the novel, Lenina goes to the “GIRLS ' DRESSING-ROOM … Torrents of hot water… eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens… a machine was warbling out a super-cornet solo.” (36). These perks of a technological age shields the horrendous side effects of actually having advanced technology. Daily activities are much easier; one does not struggle in order to achieve what is needed. The ease within this life disguises the truth that lies behind it: “ 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune [rather than] abolish the slings and arrows’” (238). Technology distracts the citizens from the non- pleasant reality; they do not understand