In the beginning of the book,in which Winston begins to question the Party and its systems, he thinks over the purpose of families, saying, “ The aim of the party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not control. Its real undeclared purpose as to remove all pleasure from the sexual act..party members had to be approved by the committee…permission was always refused if the couple gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another” (Orwell 65). 1984 highlights the aversion of feelings in the way that families are set up, the Party wants to keep its people from forming strong feelings that they can not control, thus they put them in marriages in which both people have no feelings for the other. This hatred of feelings translates into todays world in which people see emotions as inconveniences that gets in the way of completing important tasks or fulfilling their true intentions in a way similar to the Party does, as seen in the workplace and the general accomplishment of goals. With this in mind, Brave New World is more pertinent to the contemporary world as it reflects the apathetic attitudes of today by bluntly presenting such sentiments to the reader without watered down euphemisms, ultimately illustrating the self centered nature of…
