On the books, Brave New World and 1984, they deal with speech in a way where you cannot say how you really feel. If you were to say how you felt you were considered frowned upon in their society. There were no freedoms in either society. Everyone was considered the same. If everyone was the same in our society, it would be completely different. We need different opinions to make the world go around. Really, if everyone was the same, I honestly don't think our society would last very long. Each society had a lot of similarities with the way each of them were running. They believed it was all one way and if you thought there was another, you were looked at as the outcast who would later be punished depending on what you did/were going to do. …show more content…
If you got the right person to say how they really felt about what was going on in their society, there could really be problems. This is why I think the society leaders did not want their people to have their own minds and think their own thoughts. The people who would rebel and go against these rules were used to set examples of what would happen if you didn’t listen or do what you are told. The points the author was trying to make in each story was that even though you may think you have all these freedoms and can say whatever you want, you are limited to what's right to say and what's wrong. The people who were different and actually spoke out against the society leaders, used their power of speech to show everyone that what's going on in their society isn't right and they're not going to take it anymore. These were also the people who got hurt in the books. I think the biggest thing that hurt them in the books wasn't the pain, but was the fact that they took their opinions and thoughts away. They took a piece of them away. I see that in today's society. Even though we may have freedom of speech, when you know something is wrong to say and that you shouldn’t say it people are frowned upon if they
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orewell’s 1984 were both composed surrounding times of war in the twentieth century. The authors were alarmed by what they saw in society and began to write novels depicting the severe outcomes and possiblities of civilizaton if it continued down its path. Although the two books are very different, they both address many of the same issues and principles.
The idea of free speech is nearly universally accepted in the modern world. Places where free speech is limited are almost never a truly positive society. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, free speech is changed by removing mediums to express ideas and by threatening punishments for speaking out. Bradbury warns that the consequences of these alterations are a close-minded approach to life and an addiction to mindless entertainment.
The way of controlling the rest of the population is where a big difference can be seen. In 1984, the government relies on fear and total physical control to keep people in order. There are ways of spying on both people’s physical actions as well as there audible words, through either electronic devices or one of the many spies under payroll of the government. Their idea is that if anyone finds anything dissatisfactory with the government they must put up with and not show it if they want to live. Those who cannot follow this are “purged” of their heretical thoughts through torture and then usually killed. None of this happens in Brave New World because the government has altered everything so that there is nothing to be unhappy about. Even if there is a tiny dispute or problem it can always be solved by taking a
Is it inhumane to arrest and convict a person of terrible crimes, even if it is not yet committed, if it is certain that it will be? Utopia is an imaginary place in which everything is perfect; in comparison, dystopia is an imaginary state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), is a novel based on life in a dystopian setting, with a totalitarian government centered on war and hatred. Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) is a film in a futuristic setting with a system which predicts future murders so that citizens live a homicide-free utopian life. Winston Smith is the main character in 1984. His rebelious views on his society and government cause his
The novel 1984 and the graphic novel V for Vendetta have similar views on how society is being run. However V for Vendetta was based on 1984 since 1984 was written before V for Vendetta. Both of these novels are similar in a way like the themes and how the male protagonists are the one in charge of overturning the government.
In both 1984 and Brave New World, the purposeful installation of an ignorant society by the government plays a role in limiting individual rights. Through the statement “history is bunk”, Brave New World brings to attention one of the central ideas generated in 1984 (Huxley 34). In Orwell’s novel, history is used to shape the present and is wielded on a daily basis in order to provide a source that consistently supports the Party’s actions; it can then be understood that humans unethically lose access to truth and authenticity. Likewise, in Brave New World individuals are cemented in the present because it is lodged in their brains from birth that history has no value; in fact, “reflexes [were] unalterably conditioned” so that people in the
In totalitarian society in 1984, manipulation of language was the major weapon for controlling people mentally. Since people’s free speech was considered as great threat to the party, people has no freedom of speech. The party performed book censorship at Ministry of truth where Winston was working at. In addition, the party didn’t even allow people to speak or write about their own thoughts. If people attempted to express their own thoughts or feelings, it would be considered as “thoughtcrime” and they would be persecuted by the thought police.
Two classic novels, 1984 written by George Orwell and Brave New World penned by Aldous Huxley both possess similar topics and themes. In both novels societies are striving for a utopia, or a perfect society. These novels also take place in societies with versions of totalitarian governments, which is a government that rules by coercion. Not only are the topics similar, but in both novels a rebellious character is the protagonist; Winston Smith from 1984 and John the Savage in Brave New World. Another parallel in the books are the tactics that the government uses to instill fear and power over the citizens. A common theme expressed in Orwell’s novel 1984 and Huxley’s novel Brave New World is that government uses
Truly talented writers critique societies foolish actions whilst warning them of their impending future. However, few manage to genuinely depict the origin of these foolish acts. George Orwell’s 1984 and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner critique both political and social oppression to demonstrate that blind loyalty and the surrendering of free will is the demise of modern society.
As I read Brave New World and 1984, I noticed how some of Aldous Huxley and
Big Brother is watching. Telescreens analyze your every move. Thoughtpolice is watching and use physiological methods to detect “Thoughtcrime”. While reading the book “1984," by the author of George Orwell, I found many very interesting characteristics that related to the characteristics to those of Divergent, a movie based off of the book by Veronica Roth.
Ray Bradbury and George Orwell share a very similar theme in their two novels, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Winston Smith and Guy Montag work within an authoritarian organization, in which, they have opposing views of the authority. The novels are placed in a dystopian setting that the authority believes is a utopia. The dystopian fictions both have very similar predictions of the future. The predictions from these novels have not happened. However, it could be a short matter of time until the authors predictions on the future become reality.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the dystopian novel came into its own, spurred on by the advent of communism and the rise of the Soviet Union. George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World are two of the most influential of these novels. Huxley, a former teacher of Orwell’s, took issue with 1984’s use of torture, constant surveillance, and enforced poverty as a means of control over the masses; he believed the secret to uncontested authority was to make people believe they were happy. Though Orwell and Huxley were at odds regarding the philosophy of a successful authoritarian regime, both of their societies model suppression of free thought through destruction of history and literature, discouragement of emotions and relationships, conditioning
Both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 predict a dystopian future where information is tightly controlled and the populace seems to care little for the fact that they are being lied to and manipulated into working for the ambitions of their government. Both governments in the story have taken control of the media and this the population, and both characters are apart of agencies that help keep the government in control of the people. In Fahrenheit 451 the man is a fireman and burns all of the books that he can find, this keeps the population dumb and easily controllable. In 1984 Winston works for the Ministry of Truth, its job is to help edit news and entertainment in order to keep the party in line and be able to misinform the prolls. Both of these characters unknowingly worked for the party and political establishment.
In light of current events, society is more concerned than ever about just how much power the government has over people. Individuals are concerned that those in charge might implement policies that could deteriorate certain groups’ quality of living. To some, this may be foolish, but as is shown in some novels, this could happen, and when it does, it is hard to combat. In both George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World authors depict societies under strict government control. These instances display to readers the issues that arise when governments lead through excessive limitation and by demanding conformity.