What Are The Similarities Between Brave New World And 1984
Leila Haynesworth
Mr. GS
AP CoLa 11
8 September, 2014
Brave New World and 1984 are not so much warning, but wise examination by both authors that we have total control of our own lives. We have enhanced tools and created things for our well-being, but it is up to us how we choose to handle them. For example, cell phones, they have become so technologically advanced that it is hard for us to stay off of them. They have a web browser and an app for everything including several social media sites. Social media can be quite an invasion of privacy if you let it be. Similar to how their privacy is completely invaded in 1984, with the usage of telescreens and thought police. Social media is used as an example because although it’s public, it is still …show more content…
controlled by what the subscriber choses to put online.
Brave New World comes closer to my personal beliefs. Not exactly the whole plot of the book, but mainly the part about making everyone happy. Happiness is extremely fundamental in daily life. One person’s happiness can lead to another’s; like a domino effect. It is proven that happiness contributes to a decrease in mental illnesses because people are less stressed and less likely to be depressed. I cannot imagine the extreme impact it would have on the world if people were happy. There would be no reason for war or terrorism. It is not so much that terrorism and war are because of unhappiness, but the people who carry out such acts have no regard for other people’s happiness.
Some parts of these books are very relevant to the modern world.
In brave new world they use a drug called soma. Chapter three frequently says “ending is better than mending”. It is an awful quote repeated several times, meaning, instead of trying to fix something just throw it away. Similar acts are happening in the real world. A British psychiatrist worries that antidepressants are not being used to prevent severe depression but merely to get rid of unhappiness. 1984 describes a government where you are spied on at all times by “big brother”. In this country there are surveillance cameras in several locations whether they are in a bank or just Walmart. These cameras are used for our protection but we haven’t a clue who is viewing them. Even when we are not under surveillance we always have our phones on us which have a tracking device. Maybe the “big brother” in our society is …show more content…
corporations.
1984, book one, chapter seven, page eighty states “in the end the party would announce that two and two made five…the logic of their position demanded it” Orwell’s intent was a future of manipulation and political corruption.
Freedom of expression is a vital right we have in America that is slowly getting removed under certain circumstances. Like when Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand up for the playing of The National Anthem because of personal religious convictions. They suspended him from the baseball league for such actions. It is a legal right to express religion and he got penalized for doing so. That is recent proof that our rights are slowly getting taken away.
In Brave New World the author demonstrates how science is used and abused. In the story they found a way to artificially create life and train a cast system upon toddlers. Brave New World has many different plots. Mr. Foster says “The lower the caste the shorter the oxygen” that is cruelty that some are born into which is unfair. Throughout the entire book Huxley demonstrates how ruthless humans can become if they let technology determine their
lifestyles.
I preferred to read 1984 over Brave New World. It was easily one of the oddest books I have ever read. 1984 had an interesting ongoing theme, I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. The beginning was a little slow but got better toward the middle. I stop at middle because the ending was not good to me at all. I’m used to reading books that have happy or predictable endings. This book was anticlimactic and made me mad because that is not what was supposed to happen (in my head). Besides that, the book was alright.
After reading both books I believe Brave New World predicts actual state of world affairs as they exist today. It relates to loss of personal freedoms and increase of use of drugs instead of facing reality. Totalitarian also occurs in this book which is similar to the actions of the Nazis. The Nazi’s treated humans as an item and disregarded anyone’s feelings. As I was reading this book it startled me because of all the events that have happened, are happening, and may actually happen. For this book to be written so long ago, it is alarming to read what someone who grew up with such less technology can predict about it in our future.
Mr. GS
AP CoLa 11
8 September, 2014
Brave New World and 1984 are not so much warning, but wise examination by both authors that we have total control of our own lives. We have enhanced tools and created things for our well-being, but it is up to us how we choose to handle them. For example, cell phones, they have become so technologically advanced that it is hard for us to stay off of them. They have a web browser and an app for everything including several social media sites. Social media can be quite an invasion of privacy if you let it be. Similar to how their privacy is completely invaded in 1984, with the usage of telescreens and thought police. Social media is used as an example because although it’s public, it is still …show more content…
controlled by what the subscriber choses to put online.
Brave New World comes closer to my personal beliefs. Not exactly the whole plot of the book, but mainly the part about making everyone happy. Happiness is extremely fundamental in daily life. One person’s happiness can lead to another’s; like a domino effect. It is proven that happiness contributes to a decrease in mental illnesses because people are less stressed and less likely to be depressed. I cannot imagine the extreme impact it would have on the world if people were happy. There would be no reason for war or terrorism. It is not so much that terrorism and war are because of unhappiness, but the people who carry out such acts have no regard for other people’s happiness.
Some parts of these books are very relevant to the modern world.
In brave new world they use a drug called soma. Chapter three frequently says “ending is better than mending”. It is an awful quote repeated several times, meaning, instead of trying to fix something just throw it away. Similar acts are happening in the real world. A British psychiatrist worries that antidepressants are not being used to prevent severe depression but merely to get rid of unhappiness. 1984 describes a government where you are spied on at all times by “big brother”. In this country there are surveillance cameras in several locations whether they are in a bank or just Walmart. These cameras are used for our protection but we haven’t a clue who is viewing them. Even when we are not under surveillance we always have our phones on us which have a tracking device. Maybe the “big brother” in our society is …show more content…
corporations.
1984, book one, chapter seven, page eighty states “in the end the party would announce that two and two made five…the logic of their position demanded it” Orwell’s intent was a future of manipulation and political corruption.
Freedom of expression is a vital right we have in America that is slowly getting removed under certain circumstances. Like when Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand up for the playing of The National Anthem because of personal religious convictions. They suspended him from the baseball league for such actions. It is a legal right to express religion and he got penalized for doing so. That is recent proof that our rights are slowly getting taken away.
In Brave New World the author demonstrates how science is used and abused. In the story they found a way to artificially create life and train a cast system upon toddlers. Brave New World has many different plots. Mr. Foster says “The lower the caste the shorter the oxygen” that is cruelty that some are born into which is unfair. Throughout the entire book Huxley demonstrates how ruthless humans can become if they let technology determine their
lifestyles.
I preferred to read 1984 over Brave New World. It was easily one of the oddest books I have ever read. 1984 had an interesting ongoing theme, I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. The beginning was a little slow but got better toward the middle. I stop at middle because the ending was not good to me at all. I’m used to reading books that have happy or predictable endings. This book was anticlimactic and made me mad because that is not what was supposed to happen (in my head). Besides that, the book was alright.
After reading both books I believe Brave New World predicts actual state of world affairs as they exist today. It relates to loss of personal freedoms and increase of use of drugs instead of facing reality. Totalitarian also occurs in this book which is similar to the actions of the Nazis. The Nazi’s treated humans as an item and disregarded anyone’s feelings. As I was reading this book it startled me because of all the events that have happened, are happening, and may actually happen. For this book to be written so long ago, it is alarming to read what someone who grew up with such less technology can predict about it in our future.