Doublethink In Brave New World

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.

Authors often use their works as a way to express their own opinions and ideologies. However, it is the skill of the author that determines whether these ideas are combined with the plot seamlessly, making a creative transition of ideas from the author’s mind, to the reader’s. There is no doubt that George Orwell is a masterful writer, and one of his most popular works, 1984, clearly expresses his negative views of the Totalitarian government. A common theme in the dystopian society in 1984 is betrayal: The Party is very intolerant towards any form of disloyalty, and anyone who plots against them or Big Brother will eventually either betray their own mind and accept Big Brother as their leader, or be betrayed and revealed to The Party by

In George Orwell's "1984" society is manipulated and guided by an organization called the Party and an anonymous figure named Big Brother, who is used as God. One of the main aspects the Party controls is truth or tries to control is truths in the society and the truth in the minds of the individual themselves. The Party creates what they want to be true to make the individuals ignorant so they can manipulate them easier. This twist of the truth by the Party makes it seem like truth doesn't actually exist, but for Winston it does exist or it once did. Truth does exist if the individual is rebellious to the extent to where it will not get them vaporized and Winston is one of those rebels. He and others are able to experience

Shortly after world war two George Orwell obviously wanted us to know what could have really happened if the government gets too powerful over its citizens. So he wrote the novel 1984 to show us what life would've been like in a totalitarian state. In the beginning of the novel Winston the main character of the story saw a poster that had a face on it and on the bottom of it said, “Big Brother is watching you.” Already by that first citation you could guess it was one of those stories where people live in a dystopian, brink of human rights. I’ve read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which is very similar to this novel. They both could relate to the telescreens, limited knowledge, and human rights being taken away and privacy being invaded.

Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 are in many ways, very similar. Both novels incorporate class of people who only exist on the outside edge of the society, which the authors use to compare between societies which they believe we

    One of the many ways Big Brother controls his people is by using manipulation,to alter the past to fit the present. In the story Winston's job is to rewrite articles and papers to match what is s aid to be true. “The messages he received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or

The book 1984 told the story of a man named Winston Smith who lived in a dystopian world where a group called the Party ruled over the residents of Oceania under totalitarian government by controlling the residents’ fear, rewriting knowledge and history, and constant surveillance to ensure there will be no form of a overthrown of government. Though fictional, the book told a prophecy of an Orwellian government which is happening in today where Americans’ privacy is currently violated by our American government through the use of technology and surveillance systems. A device in 1984 utilized by the party to surveilled Oceania includes telescreens which were television which the Party can watch everyone in Oceania from one side and vice versa. According to Orwell’s novel 1984,

According to the novel mentioned, ”Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four.” Winston said that in the novel means he knows the government is trying to control also brainwashing Winston’s and other citizens’ thoughts, the government wants to change it into what suit to them. Because the big brother always says that ”2+ 2=5” which is obviously incorrect, but those citizens never doubt it before, and never speak up for themselves. The second one, the color of Winston's eyes are black and white means he is quite hopeless to the future, as the quote from the novel

George Orwell also took influence from authors who were active in his own lifetime, such as English author Aldous Huxley. Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four most commonly gets compared to Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, which was originally published in 1932, seventeen years before Orwell published his own anti-totalitarian work. Comparable to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World is a dystopian novel in which a political agenda is discussed via a fabricated government. However, while similarities can be drawn, the two differ in their content. In Brave New World, Huxley’s fictional society is controlled by drugs and efforts to distract its citizens who are immersed in a world of technology that could only have been dreamed of at the

The government in 1984 maintains power by using constant surveillance and suppression of citizens. Unlike the modern era, all citizens know they are being watched and are cautious about their actions. Winston says of the telescreen, the Party’s method of espionage: “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it [the telescreen], moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as

1984 is the world where thought has become a crime, and the fact these words kept coming back to Winston’s mind fills the idea of “Magical truth

on the next day nobody mentioned him” (Orwell 122). Orwell didn't want people to do certain things or they would be killed and not exist ever again. Orwell shows that society is brainwashed to fear the government and tried to follow his every rule because they didn't want to get executed. When Winston writes in his diary “ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four” (Orwell 69). He feels like that is the only reality in being able to resist the party’s

The need for power and control is the main focus of every government in this world. The novels 1984 and Brave New World show the us how power can go to the leaders heads. The theme of social class is always a main factor and it also determines the future of the people we read about in the novels. Both countries in the novels are ran a certain way, one by fear and the other by love. The technology of both worlds are incredible and decide the future of the citizens in the societies. The theme of everything stays the same but only the names change is the biggest similarity between both 1984 and Brave New World and history itself.

It is very understandable to argue with the point of view that fact does not matter, in fact, this is perhaps the single policy of Oceania that Winston is most against. At one point Winston muses that “if [Oceania] could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death” (35). And he is right, that is a terrifying thought. “Truisms are true, hold onto that!” is the rallying call of logic, it says that “two plus two make four” (93). That is what most ordinary people will hold onto, the belief that a true statement deserves recognition as such no matter if most people claim as such. At various points in the book Winston wonders that “perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one” (82). He flip-flops between the two sides but at one point, the point that people most agree with him, he decides that “if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad” (223).

“WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” Those words are repeated multiple times throughout the first 8 chapters of the book and speaks highly of the type of civilization. The main character Winston Smith lives in. Which is a totalitarian government (there is one class within the civilization that has complete power over all other classes). However even knowing that there was a class of people who towered over everyone else telling them what to think and how to act. I still could not understand how someone would be able to accept that “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” it just seems obvious to me that those are all the opposite of each other and yet only a few individuals including Winston question this.