What 's Not Known Won 't Hurt

Even though a vast majority of us wish that it was possible to turn back the hands of time and change or rewrite history. However, the truth of the matter is that we simply cannot. Everything happens for a reason, and we should learn to accept it. Accept it for what it is, rather than what we would like it to be.

Nations all around the world are still healing from the wounds of twentieth century totalitarianism, yet more seems to be on the horizon. In his 1984 magnum opus, George Orwell warns future generations of the many dangers of allowing government, or the powerful few, from being the chiefs of law expression and history using the eerie, all-powerful dystopian Party. Unfortunately, it is a warning few have truly heeded in the past half century. Resulting from a lack of written laws, the Party may prosecute its citizens relentlessly and without reason. Moreover, the Party maintains an iron grip on all published information, ensuring a death hold on all free expression and education. Yet, above all, the Party controls history; it rewrites, revises and republishes the past to secure their totalitarian future. In spite of these warnings, the decades following the publication of this novel saw nations continue on the

The parents had a bizarre way of raising their kids .Unlike the “common parents,” they believe that a kid should be free and liberal .Moreover ,that life’s danger’s will help them learn . For

history have come to implement their ideas among others. Whether it be through force or logic,

In the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates and the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley unique gender/sexual roles and disobedient actions portray through the main characters’ to defy the cultural status quo. Irony, juxtapositions, and foreshadowing are being used in each piece of literature to help the reader comprehend and compare what the author is saying about the characters and their motives now and in the near future. Connie in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, can compare to Bernard and John in Brave New World, because all are ignoring the rules, whether it is society for Bernard and John, but her friends’ parents for Connie. Each character wants to be with the opposite sex and experience life, even if they are being told otherwise. The authors each make these protagonist characters appealing to the reader because we feel as if we can connect to them and perceive their desire to oppose what the rules are and how they want to be divergent from what their controlling forces are telling them to do, whether it is parents or society.

Preference of one person over another is also not permitted, and their society is led to believe that the “Unmentionable Times” are evil, along with everything that was created in it. In the novel, Equality 7-2521 states how they were taught that being alone or doing anything for oneself is also evil and not authorized. He also speaks about how everyone attends the Home for Infants during their childhood and is then moved to the Home for Students after, where they must meet a certain age to be assigned a task for the remainder of their life by the Council of Vocations. Each person is then told what house they will be attending based on their task. Their civilization has permitted for all these rules and controls to exist in order to keep authority and have a new beginning from the Unmentionable Times. The novel clearly states that the Unmentionable Times are evil, therefore they decided to follow collectivism to differentiate and create a new form of society. These laws have been instilled in all the people since they attended the Home for Infants, therefore giving the government - the World Council - more control and

The 20th century was marked by many unforgettable events such as World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Some of these events occurred because of the birth of a government system called totalitarianism. A totalitarian regime is gained either through legal or illegal means and transforms the entire society into a single party regime with the sole purpose of conquering society (Zani, 2003). One of the founding fathers of totalitarianism, Joseph Stalin, ruined the lives of many by taking complete control over their lives through brainwashing techniques and destroying their rights to express their opinion.

Man has an ego, but once man witnesses or discovers something greater than what man has, envy comes, creating the previously stated situation. The reason for the rules and controls in this new society exist is generally to prevent history from repeating itself. As previously stated, the past was one the citizens do not wish to repeat, even if it meant that a new outcome could somehow change the fate of

Based on the book, only the head of the government, has the Intel on what the world was like before them. Assuming, that the past was a place where people could think on their own free will and were able to make their own decisions; the government scheme was to make sure the future is adverse so that history is not repeated. This is essentially why the book anthem consists of rules and restrictions throughout the story

Have you ever heard the saying “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” and “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”? These quotes come from George Santayana and George Bernard Shaw, these men tell how it’s common for people to repeat past mistakes. However, if people learn to look back and understand history, it’s harder to replicate disastrous actions. History is full of wars and brutish words, yet the source of all these problems come from a single issue: power. Leaders seek power in every crevice they can find. In the book, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, Napoleon is a cruel dictator who successfully takes over a farm after running off its competitors. Major, an old pig, told the farm of a new way of living. However, after he died, Napoleon steadily took over the farm. Therefore, taking the time to understand history’s past and mistakes can be an effective weapon against repeating the same mistakes. Failure to learn outcomes in a repetition of history, as Napoleon proves, as shown in today’s life, learning from history helps resolve futures issues, and only suffering comes from problematic actions of the past.

In the past, Communist leaders have attempted to rewrite history, but in Brave New World, this was taken one step further; they forgot about history altogether. The only people who had access to any knowledge of the past were the ones who had the power: the World Controllers. Thus, they were able to create a society that fit their liking.

In the film Gattaca and the novel, Brave New World, the relationships and thoughts about families are undoubtedly different from one another. In Gattaca families are more involved with the child’s by choosing their genes and wanting the best for them while in Brave New World families are nonexistent as they are known as dangerous to the society.

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

Families only being able to have two children relates to the present because recently in China, families were only allowed to have one child. The relation from the book to now, supports the point previously made, that dystopian selections are a short glimpse into the future. Margaret Haddix shows that the society is controlling through the use of her characters and diction. The characters play a big role in establishing that the society is overpowering the citizens.

The past, our greatest aid to see into the future lets us view upon humanity's triumphs and downfalls. This amazing ability helps us judge our decisions today that could affect us later on in our lives, it isn’t perfect, but in order to try and make change happen we have to use our past as a way to persuade the masses into a sustainable approach: “Sustainability and sufficiency and equity require structural change; they require a revolution, not in the political sense like the French Revolution, but in the much more profound sense of the agricultural or industrial revolutions”(Meadows, Randers, & Meadows, 2015, p.71). I feel like the authors are really trying to get people to see that it takes determined individuals to start their own mini-revolts