Compare and Contrast Essay: Brave New World Versus 1984
Compare and Contrast Essay
Juan Ignacio Pazmiño
English 11
“We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.” (Roth, 2012) Victoria Roth describes the way people act in a society, individuals are different from one another, and therefore have different beliefs, ideas, and thoughts. When a ruler comes into power, he wants to make the whole community think as he does, but the real problem comes when he abuses of his power to take control. In this way totalitarian governments and rulers have arose, and have intended to influence in the society to achieve their goals. A totalitarian leader controls the behavior and actions of its people in order to become powerful. In the novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, two futuristic dystopias are depicted. Both of them show totalitarian rule, where liberty has been deprived by different means of control. In Brave New World, the control of society is maintained through a peaceful way that consists in convincing people of loving their lack freedom. On the other side, in 1984, control is upheld by surveillance, the restriction of information, and torture. The absolute power of a totalitarian state leads to a total control of the society, causing it to be vapid, ignorant and oppressed.
In Brave New World, control of the society is achieved by making its citizens happy and stable so they don’t worry about their freedom, and they maintain their power by the use of technological inventions. Hypnopaedia is one way in which the state manipulated the society. It is a teaching method in which individuals are induced with several ways of thinking in their sleep. It doesn’t work in teaching intellectual work, however, it can be used in moral training. In the World State, hypnopaedia is used to induce certain social and moral rules people have to follow; this
Juan Ignacio Pazmiño
English 11
“We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.” (Roth, 2012) Victoria Roth describes the way people act in a society, individuals are different from one another, and therefore have different beliefs, ideas, and thoughts. When a ruler comes into power, he wants to make the whole community think as he does, but the real problem comes when he abuses of his power to take control. In this way totalitarian governments and rulers have arose, and have intended to influence in the society to achieve their goals. A totalitarian leader controls the behavior and actions of its people in order to become powerful. In the novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, two futuristic dystopias are depicted. Both of them show totalitarian rule, where liberty has been deprived by different means of control. In Brave New World, the control of society is maintained through a peaceful way that consists in convincing people of loving their lack freedom. On the other side, in 1984, control is upheld by surveillance, the restriction of information, and torture. The absolute power of a totalitarian state leads to a total control of the society, causing it to be vapid, ignorant and oppressed.
In Brave New World, control of the society is achieved by making its citizens happy and stable so they don’t worry about their freedom, and they maintain their power by the use of technological inventions. Hypnopaedia is one way in which the state manipulated the society. It is a teaching method in which individuals are induced with several ways of thinking in their sleep. It doesn’t work in teaching intellectual work, however, it can be used in moral training. In the World State, hypnopaedia is used to induce certain social and moral rules people have to follow; this
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