Huxley vs. Orwell
Sylvia McCleary
10/29/2014
English Comp 121
Compare and Contrast Essay
Final Draft
Aldous Huxley’s Book vs. George Orwell’s Book:
Infinite Distraction or Government Oppression?
By: Sylvia McCleary
Imagine a world where people are developed in factories, or a world where people just disappear for breaking the “mold”. This compare and contrast essay on Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s philosophies and prose. Both authors created fictional worlds;
Orwell’s focuses on government oppression, and Huxley’s focuses on controlling people by flooding society with pleasurable things. Both authors describe a society that is futuristic, however, they both have descriptions that mirror our world today.
Huxley created a world where people were trained to love certain things. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one interested in reading books. In the book
Brave New World, people weren’t raised by their parents, in fact they didn’t even have parents. Babies were made in a factory where they would take one egg and split it however many times they wanted to. They could make up to ninetyone identical twins from just one egg. The story started out with a group of students receiving a tour of the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre from a man literally named The Director. “The Director started by explaining the process by which the humans were grown inside bottles and then conditioned (brainwashed)” to believe certain
“morals”(Shmoop).
Sylvia McCleary
10/29/2014
English Comp 121
Compare and Contrast Essay
Final Draft
In short, what Huxley feared that the future of our government and that the government would give us so information that we would become passive and egotistical.
He feared that the truth would be “drowned in a sea of irrelevance”(ZeroHedge). Huxley also was concerned that “we would become a trivial culture preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy and the
10/29/2014
English Comp 121
Compare and Contrast Essay
Final Draft
Aldous Huxley’s Book vs. George Orwell’s Book:
Infinite Distraction or Government Oppression?
By: Sylvia McCleary
Imagine a world where people are developed in factories, or a world where people just disappear for breaking the “mold”. This compare and contrast essay on Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s philosophies and prose. Both authors created fictional worlds;
Orwell’s focuses on government oppression, and Huxley’s focuses on controlling people by flooding society with pleasurable things. Both authors describe a society that is futuristic, however, they both have descriptions that mirror our world today.
Huxley created a world where people were trained to love certain things. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one interested in reading books. In the book
Brave New World, people weren’t raised by their parents, in fact they didn’t even have parents. Babies were made in a factory where they would take one egg and split it however many times they wanted to. They could make up to ninetyone identical twins from just one egg. The story started out with a group of students receiving a tour of the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre from a man literally named The Director. “The Director started by explaining the process by which the humans were grown inside bottles and then conditioned (brainwashed)” to believe certain
“morals”(Shmoop).
Sylvia McCleary
10/29/2014
English Comp 121
Compare and Contrast Essay
Final Draft
In short, what Huxley feared that the future of our government and that the government would give us so information that we would become passive and egotistical.
He feared that the truth would be “drowned in a sea of irrelevance”(ZeroHedge). Huxley also was concerned that “we would become a trivial culture preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy and the