Brave New World And 1984

Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxleys A stand late knowledge base and George Orwells 1984, the flora books though they deal with similar topics, are much dissimilar than alike. A undaunted New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his demotenership when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden know in spite of appearance the hypocrisy of his society. In two cases, the main character is in quiet rebellion against his government which is eventu solelyy found to be in vain.Huxley wrote A braw New World in the third individual so that the reader could be every last(predicate)otted a more encyclopedic view of the activities he presents. His characters are shallow and cartoon-like (Astrachan) in order to interrupt reflect the society in which they are entrapped. In this society traditionalistic notions of love and what ideally should come out of it have long been disregard and are now despised, Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the trigger-happy jet.The urge has but a single outlet. (Huxley 41) The comparison to a fierce jet is intended to demonstrate the inherent dangers in these activities. Many of the wear New Worlds tender norms are intended to palliate its citizens from anything unpleasant through with(predicate) depriving them of the opportunity to miss anything overly pleasant. Soma, the magical last-ditch drug is what keeps the population from revolting. What you need is a gramme of soma totally the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects. The drug is at the forefront of their daily lives providing granting immunity Superczynski 2 from lifes every ill.The word comes from the Sanskrit language of quaint India. It means both an intoxicating drink utilise in the sure-enough(a) Vedic religious rituals there and the plant from whose juice the drink was made- a plant wh ose true identity we dont know. (Astrachan) The drug is used as a form of recreation, like sex, and its use is encouraged at any opportunity, especially when great emotions begin to arise. They are conditioned to absorb this to calm and pacify them should they begin to feel anything too intensely. The learn withal provides them with their place and prevents them from participating in social activities which they neednt take part in. (Smith)Class consciousness which Americans are so reluctant to acknowledge is taught through hypnop? ia (the repetition of phrases during sleep akin to post hypnotic suggestion) for all social classes These names are letters in the Greek alphabet, familiar to Huxleys original English readers because in English schools they are used as grades- like our As, Bs, etc. with Alpha plus the best and Epsilon minus the worst. In Brave New World, each names a class or caste. Alphas and Betas remain individuals only Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are bokanovskifi ed. (Astrachan) The conditioning is begun at an extremely juvenility age and is by modern real-world standards cruel, AThe screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone.There was something desperate, to the highest degree insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance. (Huxley 20) The childrens Pavlovian conditioning with electric shocks is later compared to the wax seals which used to grace the seams of letters (Astrachan), not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.The entire society is conditioned to shrink a focussing from intense emotion, engage in casual sex, and take their pacifying Soma. In 1984, a first-person book partly narrated by the main characters interior(a) dialogue, the great party leader is Big Brother, a fictional charac ter who is somewhat more imposing than crosswalk, of Huxleys book, named after the industrialist Henry Ford (Astrachan).The main character Superczynski 3 Winston fears Big Brother and is much more aware of his situation than any of the characters in A Brave New World who are constantly pacified by soma. In A Brave New World history is ignored completely whereas in 1984 it is literally rewritten in order to suit the present. The role of science in both books is extensive and complicated. 1984s telescreens cannot be turned off, as A Brave New World has feelies, an advancement on talkies which added sound, feelies add tactile senses to a movie as well.Science and human progress is not adjudge in A Brave New World (Smith) excepting when it increases consumption, whereas it is twisted with humorous titles in 1984, They were homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divide the Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, e ducation, and the fine arts the Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war the Ministry of Love, which maintained impartiality and order and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.Their names in Newspeak Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty. (Orwell 8) The God (Ford) of A Brave New World encourages production and consumption of shallow objects to equilibrize the shallow minds of its citizens. 1984 was written as a warning against the results of having a totalistic state. Winston bears the blunt of his mistakes, the crime of individuality and dissention. A Brave New World is as much a satire on the reality of forthwith (the reality of Huxleys day) as it is a novel about the future.ANeil common carrier warned Awhen a population start outs distracted by trivia, when cultural life is delimit a s a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious general conversation becomes a form of baby talk, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk cultural death is a tripping possibility. (Kruk) Huxley seems to feel that society is progressing toward a materialistic and superficial end, in which all things of real value, including the relationships which make people human, will be quashed.The two works vary greatly, A Brave New World is the Huxleys prospect of fear that mankind will create a utopia by way of foregoing all that makes life worthwhile. Orwells work rings more sharply of secret police paranoia. Indeed, Winston is taken to room 101, while Superczynski 4 Bernard is merely transferred to an uncomfortable location. The hypocrisy is much more evident within A Brave New World as well, owing to the dominances having had a son.Both books forewarn of a day when adult male might fall slave to its own concept of how others should act. The two books enquire not whether societies with stability, pacification, and uniformity can be created, but whether or not they are worth creating. It is so often that one wants something and in missing romanticizes it, thus bringing disappointment when the end is finally obtained. They serve as a reminder that it is necessary to have pain to compare with joy, pour down to compare with victory, and problems in order to have solutions.