The Penultimate Truth and 1984 fall under a literary genre that has a wide range of styles and themes. Probably the most popular and interesting style in science fiction novels is the one that deals with future events, where the writer tries to anticipate futuristic changes. The accuracy of an author is of course found out retroactively, when the reader realizes that the author, years before, was able to predict and depict the future. However, The Penultimate Truth (Philip K. Dick) and 1984 (George Orwell), even though classified as science fiction novels, should not be considered so because the descriptions of the future they painted has never happened. Indeed, they appear to be opportunistic science fiction novels because when
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Orwell’s, the world is still in panic; John F. Kennedy is freshly assassinated, rumors of political betrayals spread. All political organizations are suspected in turn. Additionally, the population is confronted to a baby boom and the middle-class is struggling economically and fights to get better wages. The Penultimate Truth takes place 30 years later, in 1994. After the last nuclear World War between West and East, peoples of each side live hidden in underground cities, while battles still continue on the surface between governments helped by robots. The underground humans produce those robots for the war effort. All the information is transmitted on the screens by the leader stand on the surface, in order to know what is happening above them. The main character, Nicolas St James, is an underground city manager. He has to take the risk to go out of his shelter to find a treatment that would save his robot builder in chef’s life. When he reaches the surface, he finds out that the truth was not the one broadcasted by the Government: there are no war at all and people stayed on earth live like big property owners and use the robots for their personal uses. This book of conspiracy does not tell today’s facts. Those old years had been war of weapons, then the war of the economy, and now, we are going to a war of technology. People can realize that those two novels 1984 and The Penultimate Truth are erroneously classified as …show more content…
It compares the society of the human evolution bearing and go definitely further than any else book. The author, Aldous Huxley claims that it would not exist a “nuclear family” anymore, but multiple sexual habits. Only one God and specific practices exists on his name, like special drug and rituals that retain global human rebelliousness. This human population is classified, bonded by castes and designed from the birth to fulfill the society needs. Workers stand on their specific jobs and are satisfied of their condition. But, even in this book Mother Nature seems to say, “I am free”, and remembers us that human behaviors are not be
Orwell’s, the world is still in panic; John F. Kennedy is freshly assassinated, rumors of political betrayals spread. All political organizations are suspected in turn. Additionally, the population is confronted to a baby boom and the middle-class is struggling economically and fights to get better wages. The Penultimate Truth takes place 30 years later, in 1994. After the last nuclear World War between West and East, peoples of each side live hidden in underground cities, while battles still continue on the surface between governments helped by robots. The underground humans produce those robots for the war effort. All the information is transmitted on the screens by the leader stand on the surface, in order to know what is happening above them. The main character, Nicolas St James, is an underground city manager. He has to take the risk to go out of his shelter to find a treatment that would save his robot builder in chef’s life. When he reaches the surface, he finds out that the truth was not the one broadcasted by the Government: there are no war at all and people stayed on earth live like big property owners and use the robots for their personal uses. This book of conspiracy does not tell today’s facts. Those old years had been war of weapons, then the war of the economy, and now, we are going to a war of technology. People can realize that those two novels 1984 and The Penultimate Truth are erroneously classified as …show more content…
It compares the society of the human evolution bearing and go definitely further than any else book. The author, Aldous Huxley claims that it would not exist a “nuclear family” anymore, but multiple sexual habits. Only one God and specific practices exists on his name, like special drug and rituals that retain global human rebelliousness. This human population is classified, bonded by castes and designed from the birth to fulfill the society needs. Workers stand on their specific jobs and are satisfied of their condition. But, even in this book Mother Nature seems to say, “I am free”, and remembers us that human behaviors are not be