Dystopian, and utopian worlds are often regarded and portrayed as worlds that display different aspects of societal potential. In the two novels, George Orwell 1984 and Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, people are controlled by a totalitarian government in which they are not free to express individual will and thought. In Orwell’s 1984, the world is assumed to be dystopian and every action an individual takes is observed by Big Brother. In Huxley’s Brave New World, a utopian setting takes place where one can happily live without any harsh and negative consequence. These worlds both have their own complexity of facets of life, though nevertheless they both contain similarities when compared to one another. In Orwell 1984, Winston Smith deals
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These kids join government organizations, such as ‘Junior Spies’, where they are “systematically turned into ungovernable little savages” (24). Deriving out of birth, the children were brainwashed with ‘Big Brother’ philosophy of “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength” (Orwell 4). As a result, the children have no tendency to rebel against the party. These children watch their parents cautiously to see if they have any ‘criminal’ thoughts against the party. “It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children . . . in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how . . . [a] ‘child hero’ . . . had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police” (Orwell 24-25). The children become dedicated to Big Brother that when they hear or see anything that goes against the party, they will blurt out any information to the Thought Police. The children learn the history of the past through textbooks. These textbooks are filled with information, that may be false, that the Party wants the children to know about. They’re filled with the government ideologies, that it becomes easier to manipulate the children to make them love Big Brother. “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Orwell 248). The government controls and manipulates everything. The government justifies their slogan of
These kids join government organizations, such as ‘Junior Spies’, where they are “systematically turned into ungovernable little savages” (24). Deriving out of birth, the children were brainwashed with ‘Big Brother’ philosophy of “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength” (Orwell 4). As a result, the children have no tendency to rebel against the party. These children watch their parents cautiously to see if they have any ‘criminal’ thoughts against the party. “It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children . . . in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how . . . [a] ‘child hero’ . . . had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police” (Orwell 24-25). The children become dedicated to Big Brother that when they hear or see anything that goes against the party, they will blurt out any information to the Thought Police. The children learn the history of the past through textbooks. These textbooks are filled with information, that may be false, that the Party wants the children to know about. They’re filled with the government ideologies, that it becomes easier to manipulate the children to make them love Big Brother. “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Orwell 248). The government controls and manipulates everything. The government justifies their slogan of