George Orwell’s novel 1984 presents a prophetic vision of a society at the hands of a leader in power known as “Big Brother”. Big Brother manages to keep the people of Airstrip One under his command, through close surveillance and prevents rebellions with methods of torture such as in Winston’s Smith’s case. In comparison, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, describes a futuristic society where individuals are controlled and conditioned at an age of infancy. These individuals are given a predestined role in society and are controlled into fulfilling that role; as a result, everyone is stripped of their individuality and given an identity based on their categorizations. While both books take place in distinctively different time periods,
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In Orwell’s 1984, Children are raised according to a specific set of regulations influenced by the state. The action of having individual thoughts was forbidden as it supported the notion of free-thinking, which was against the law due to its ability to lead to potential rebellion or disloyalty. In prevention of the action of Double thinking and enforcement of censorship through the usage of tele screens and thought police; who invoked fear and lead to the torture of those in support of the rebellion. Winston defied Big Brother and wrote in his concealed journal his personal reflection on the gravity of having uncensored and individual thoughts, “thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death” (Oxwell 23). Moreover, a symbol in this novel of the limitations of liberty and self-expression is Newspeak, "Don 't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” (Orwell 56). Newspeak represents the power of Big Brother as he represses the minds of citizens in order avoid the possibility of individualism. The power of thought is seen as a threat to the government because “They[people] might even begin to imagine that they had individual memories or other powers of mind independent of the central authority-and this would be at odds with what they were supposed to believe” (Lang 167). Furthermore, the people of Huxley’s Brave New World were robbed of their characters at birth given a predetermined role in society which even came with a specific grade of intelligence and even a dress code. As a result, they conform to society 's expectations and created to fit a specific appearance and attain a specific level of intelligence based on their classes which makes the people resemblance the state a sated by Mustapha Mond “We are not our own any more than what we
In Orwell’s 1984, Children are raised according to a specific set of regulations influenced by the state. The action of having individual thoughts was forbidden as it supported the notion of free-thinking, which was against the law due to its ability to lead to potential rebellion or disloyalty. In prevention of the action of Double thinking and enforcement of censorship through the usage of tele screens and thought police; who invoked fear and lead to the torture of those in support of the rebellion. Winston defied Big Brother and wrote in his concealed journal his personal reflection on the gravity of having uncensored and individual thoughts, “thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death” (Oxwell 23). Moreover, a symbol in this novel of the limitations of liberty and self-expression is Newspeak, "Don 't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” (Orwell 56). Newspeak represents the power of Big Brother as he represses the minds of citizens in order avoid the possibility of individualism. The power of thought is seen as a threat to the government because “They[people] might even begin to imagine that they had individual memories or other powers of mind independent of the central authority-and this would be at odds with what they were supposed to believe” (Lang 167). Furthermore, the people of Huxley’s Brave New World were robbed of their characters at birth given a predetermined role in society which even came with a specific grade of intelligence and even a dress code. As a result, they conform to society 's expectations and created to fit a specific appearance and attain a specific level of intelligence based on their classes which makes the people resemblance the state a sated by Mustapha Mond “We are not our own any more than what we