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Comparing Brave New World 'And 1984'

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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

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