1984 AND BRAVE NEW WORLD

Santiago GonzalezBrad Fortunado

Kaila Krauser

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley

"Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time."

•" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

Huxley to Orwell “Within the next generation I believe that

the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”

Government Control Physical Control

Mental Control

Physical Control Compare1984 BRAVE NEW WORLD

The Ministry of Love“The Thought Police would get

him just the same.” The Ministry of Peace “In the far distance a helicopter

skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows.”

“’Send me to an island?’ He jumped up, ran across the room, and stood gesticulating in front of the Controller.”

State Police

Physical Control Contrast1984 BRAVE NEW WORLD How Proles are

treated Ultimate action

against rebellion, “Vaporization”

“Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon hereditary?”

Soma, the drug of bliss with none of the consequences.

Mental Control Compare1984 BRAVE NEW WORLD Propaganda- “War is

Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.”

War and Ministry of Peace

“There used to be something called God-before the Nine Years’ War.”

“There were those strange rumors of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller’s study. Bibles, poetry-Ford knew what.”

Mental Control Contrast1984 BRAVE NEW WORLD Paranoia- “Big

Brother is Watching You.”

“Hateful” Society Promote sex as a

“duty to the party”

Conditioning “Everyone belonged

to everyone” (Sexually)

“Yes, everybody’s happy now.”

Protagonist Compare: IsolationBrave New World Vs.

1984

“Too little bone and brawn had isolated Bernard from his fellow men, and the sense of this apartness, being, by all the current standards, a mental excess, became in its turn a wider separation.”

“Momentarily he caught O'Brien's eye. O'Brien had stood up. He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture. But there was a fraction of a second when their eyes met, and for as long as it took to happen Winston knew- yes, he knew!- that O'Brien was thinking the same thing as himself.”So what?

Both Orwell and Huxley display a sense of rebellion in their characters, in similar ways. Bernard and Winston regularly take part in illegal or frowned upon activities as a form of “rebellion,” and these “rebellions” gradually become more rebellious in nature. In relation to dystopia, both characters feel as if they are different from other citizens, out of place in the world they reside in.

Protagonist Contrast: IsolationBrave New World Vs.

1984

"And then he spends most of his time by himself – alone." There was horror in Fanny's voice.

“And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.”

So what?Although similarly displayed and with similar motives, Bernard and Winston rebel in two completely opposite ways. In the dystopia created in Brave New World, everyone is always accompanied by someone, and it frowned upon to stay to ones self; yet this is exactly what Bernard strives for. In 1984, Winston wants nothing more than to have someone that shares his feelings and sentiments, but socializing with other party members is considered suspicious and illegal in some cases.

Protagonist Compare: Role in Dystopia

Brave New World Vs.

1984

“A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.”

“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.” So what?

Bernard works at the Central London Hatchery presiding over the next generation of human beings. Winston is employed by The Party to work at The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) to edit and twist events so that they benefit Big Brother. Both hold positions that help the government perform their submission and suppression. Yet, both hold positions of power in which, if they succeeded in their “rebellion,” could spell disastrous effect on the government inn each respective dystopia.

Protagonist Contrast: Role in Dystopia

Brave New World Vs.

1984

“One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.”

“As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.”So what?

In relation to each dystopia, Winston creates the propaganda and lies that are to be shoved down the citizens throat, while Bernard helps makes make the citizens themselves. One is led by science to do his job, the other led by logic and lies.

Social Stratification

Brave New World class system"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.“ Chapter 2-

1984 class systemShe did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. 'We are the dead,' he said." Chapter 3

Higher Classes1984: INNER PARTY

BRAVE NEW WORLD: ALPHA AND BETA

Make up central government

“the Party” Special privileges Best life conditions

One unique egg develops into one unique fetus

Develop naturally Mature to term Normal Brain function Considered geniuses “Each time he found himself

looking on the level, instead of downward, into a Delta’s face, he felt humiliated. Would the creature treat him with respect due to his caste? The question haunted him.”

Middle Classes1984: OUTER PARTY BRAVE NEW WORLD: GAMMA AND

DELTA Work for “the Party” “Middle Class” Most controlled class Poor living conditions "Sexual intercourse

was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema."

• Created using Bokanovsky Method• Single ovary can produce thousands of children• Make up a majority of the society

Lower Classes1984: PROLES BRAVE NEW WORLD: EPSILONS

"They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds."

Less watched by “the Party” 85% of Oceania

“ ‘The lower the caste,’ said Mr. Foster, ‘the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected is the the brain. At seventy percent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters.”

•Created through Bokanovsky process

•The most altered •"The liftman was a small

simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moro"

As Mrs. Oehrlein would say…So What?

Therefore, in Brave New World, social mobility is impossible. The People of their society are predestined for their caste, and “conditioned” to love it. On the other hand, in 1984, the people hypothetically could have social mobility, but feel as though they have no hope of escaping their horrible living conditions. Both authors use the ideas of social stratification to create dystopia, but in unique ways.

Conclusion

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