When Utopias Take a Turn Infamous artist Stephen King said in his book The Running Man “In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives”. Often times leaders or people with lots of authority have ideas of what they want society to be like and they start to make changes to work towards that goal. These perfect societies that these leaders dream of are called utopias. These important figures often go to the extreme with these ideas and start to enforce rules and policies that morally unacceptable. For example, Adolf Hitler’s idea of the “perfect society” was that there were no Jews; so he began to commit genocide and kills tons of innocent people. Three concepts are brought to life in the two dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World and they are, corruption, oppression,
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In the two dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World we see exactly how the leaders of these governments make citizens turn a blind eye to the corruption of these government systems and when corruption is noticed and citizens rebel that there is a price to pay. This novel is told through the point of view of Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth. He is a
In the two dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World we see exactly how the leaders of these governments make citizens turn a blind eye to the corruption of these government systems and when corruption is noticed and citizens rebel that there is a price to pay. This novel is told through the point of view of Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth. He is a