Both George Orwell in 1984 and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World highlight the thought control of a totalitarian government to demonstrate how total information control can result in an absence of individuality. ... In 1984, society is conditioned through fear instead of ignorant happiness. ... Like Brave New World, in 1984, the nation of Oceania has a "Ministry of Truth that contained news, entertainment...all modified" ( Orwell 6). ... The party in 1984, is constantly destroying words "[and] cutting language down to the bone" "(Orwell 51 ), as they believe that is the only way to ensure nat...

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Winston Smith from 1984 and John from Brave New World find themselves similarly unable to fit into their societies because they disagree the way their government rules George Orwell's 1984 was a magnified projection into the future of a present that contained Stalinism and an immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism, where the society was controlled almost exclusively by punishment and the fear of punishment. ... Winston Smith (1984) and John (Brave New World), the protagonists of both novels, oppose to the way their societies are ruled and dehumanized because they use...

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Like George Orwell's 1984, this novel depicts a dystopia in which an all-powerful state controls the behaviors and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. But a major difference between the two is that, whereas in 1984 control is maintained by constant government surveillance, secret police, and torture, power in Brave New World is maintained through technological interventions that start before birth and last until death, and that actually change what people want. The government of 1984 maintains power through force and intimidation. ...

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"A Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, uses a fine irony that calls into question the very foundations of society, being exposed to light the ills of a society in decline, pointing out its horror and its enormous vacuum. With an intellectual tone: Brave New World reflects on the reality we live in, ...

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