1984 and Brave New World have inspired numerous works of critique, and produced many discussions. These critiques are all based in someone’s worldview, which can be defined as schools of criticism such as Marxist Criticism which asks about the distinction of classes and the interaction between members of different classes, Feminist Criticism which asks how female characters are created and treated, and Psychoanalytical Criticism which asks if the author recognizes innate human desires and about the psychological being of the author. Although someone who belongs to a certain school of thought or criticism could generally be thought to hold the same opinion on any given book that someone else with their worldview would have, there can be dissent
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“He spoke to a male audience and his world was not one in which women could be ascribed a stance equal to that of men” (Császár). Not one female in his books would be considered close to acceptable for an author seeking to please people seeking equality between the genders in literature. “In his favourite phrase, ‘common man’, man was not a substitute for people but really excluded the common woman. In his vocabulary masculine and feminine bore value judgements, associating the former with strength, courage and action and the latter with passivity and softness” (Császár). Orwell’s presuppositions taken into his writing were concretely founded, and did not budge – his prejudices against women reared themselves in his inability to write a woman who was as useful to a story as any of the men. 1984 is seen as one of his worst offenders; Julia, the most prominent female character, is as replaceable as the clothing in Brave New World – she is bland, and used only as a means for the protagonist, a male named Winston, to develop. She receives extremely little character development. The offenses seen in 1984 render it, in the opinion of Feminist Criticism theory critics, irredeemably bad and classify it as a terrible book – even though the more neutral critic will find the book to be
“He spoke to a male audience and his world was not one in which women could be ascribed a stance equal to that of men” (Császár). Not one female in his books would be considered close to acceptable for an author seeking to please people seeking equality between the genders in literature. “In his favourite phrase, ‘common man’, man was not a substitute for people but really excluded the common woman. In his vocabulary masculine and feminine bore value judgements, associating the former with strength, courage and action and the latter with passivity and softness” (Császár). Orwell’s presuppositions taken into his writing were concretely founded, and did not budge – his prejudices against women reared themselves in his inability to write a woman who was as useful to a story as any of the men. 1984 is seen as one of his worst offenders; Julia, the most prominent female character, is as replaceable as the clothing in Brave New World – she is bland, and used only as a means for the protagonist, a male named Winston, to develop. She receives extremely little character development. The offenses seen in 1984 render it, in the opinion of Feminist Criticism theory critics, irredeemably bad and classify it as a terrible book – even though the more neutral critic will find the book to be