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 Oceania and Brave New World, history and true information is stripped from the general public in order to create loyal, and robotic beings. ... 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). ... In both B...

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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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