Brave New World And 1984 Comparison Essay

Literature frequently tries to depict what a perfect world would be like. A world without war, without class, without major problems. As utopian as this idea seems, it more times than not depicts that of a dystopian society. Peace can only be achieved by suppressing the oppressed, class can only be disavowed through false ideals, and major problems can only be removed by creating new ones. Both George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World express these themes. Both novels deal with a totalitarian dystopian society that denies freedoms to their people.

In Huxley's Brave New World, the society is one where rudimentary freedoms are stripped from the people through conditioning. Most of them don’t even realize that they are practically enslaved. From even before birth, their class and life are already determined. From there, they are programmed to be what that is that they are determined to be. John, someone who has not been raised in the same unfree society as the others, speaks out about the lack of freedom. He states to the leader of the world, Mustafa Mond, "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Mustafa Mond replies that John is seeking the right to be unhappy. This quote and the
Though the ruling parties of the hierarchy of their societies make daily life seem regular and free, it is anything but it. George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World depict worlds in which people are brainwashed through conditioning, whether it be as babies or in everyday life. Though the same thing doesn’t occur in modern American life, influences such as television and social media have a way of persuading the average citizen to act a certain way and believe in certain ideals. The novels’ dystopian societies are the extreme of what biased and subjective information can do to our