The common comparisons of surveillance‚ technology use‚ social conditioning‚ totalitarianism‚ and manipulation of language between America and 1984 and Brave New World have an erroneously negative effect on the average American’s perception of the government. Frequently used as political rhetoric‚ correlations between the negative aspects of these dystopian novels allow politicians and political journalists to impose a sense of distrust of the government‚ the fear of an Orwellian or Huxleyan society
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April 19‚ 2012 Brave New Comparisons Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World bears several similarities to Thomas More’s Utopia and George Orwell’s 1984. Brave New World and 1984‚ governments seize control of citizen’s personal liberties‚ such as freedom. Both plots feature a character recognizing the growing control of the government force‚ trying to escape the clutches of the government officials. While Brave New World and 1984 are similar in plot‚ they do differ slightly. For example‚ 1984 demonstrates
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Examining Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984‚ there are some accurate depictions of public discourse in 1984‚ but Huxley’s novel includes more relevant examples. Postman bounds the idea of television‚ a cherished part of our life‚ as the means of self-destruction in accordance to Huxley’s views. Postman’s assertion of the more accurate Brave New World is evident in freedom‚ technology and the media. In this age of liberty and freedom of expression‚ it is hard to picture Orwell’s
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1984 The novel 1984 is set in a country called Oceana or today’s England‚ the entire country is controlled by one leader otherwise known as "Big Brother". The civilians have no thoughts of their own and only do and think what the government tells them‚ because "Big Brother is watching you". Winston‚ the main character‚ works in the Ministry of Truth‚ a place where he changes history for the benefit of the government; he is tired and frustrated by the way he is living not being able to have free thought
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In a dystopian society‚ one is not limited to the sum of displeasure and lies that might transpire. The lines between dystopian and anti-utopian societies are similar in contrast‚ but offer a wide array of absent pleasure for the citizens of the totalarianistic state. Brave New World‚ a brainwashed utopia‚ written by Aldous Huxley‚ introduced the first suggestions of human cloning in literature. Thinking about the class ranks that the “embryos” are classified into‚ you are literally born into
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Kaleb Padgett Mrs. Koener English IV 27 November 2012 Dystopian Government’s Intentions are not Benevolent‚ but Self-serving A society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death‚ the government does not think of the common good by which all of the society will benefit‚ and the leaders are self-serving. Big Brother doesn’t need to justify its ways because it holds all of the power in society through its ministries. In the novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell‚ there
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Bradbury ’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ was written at the onset of the fifties as a call to the American people to reflect on how the dominant social values of their times were effecting both the lives of individual Americans and their government. Fahrenheit 451 attacks utopian government and focuses on society ’s foolishness of always being politically correct. (Mogen 113). According to Mogen‚ Fahrenheit 451 depicts a world in which the American Dream has turned into a nightmare because it has been
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four the sexual and analytical desires in which Winston longs for are labelled illicit. This is due to the negative social and political connotations and consequences that the party has associated with these desires in an attempt to blank out the mind of their citizens to gain complete control through the elimination of autonomy‚ individualism and freedom. They wish for their citizens to become automatons in order to serve Big Brother‚ to exercise absolute power‚ to serve and carry
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Violence Is Frequently Relevant To the Society in Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. In Bradbury’s futuristic novel‚ violence is prevalently revealed in the society. Violence in society is aggression‚ cruelty‚ rough or injurious physical actions and treatment towards the citizens and civilization in the society‚ where everyone has the same theory and beliefs on the way one should act. In Fahrenheit 451‚ everyone is careless and relatively violent with the exception
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Fahrenheit 451 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper‚ more specifically books‚ burn. As a fireman living in a futuristic city‚ it is Guy Montag’s job to see that that is exactly what happens. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451 that the future is without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible. Anyone caught with books hidden in their home is forced out of it while the firemen force their way in. Then‚ the firemen turn the house into an inferno
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