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In Nineteen Eighty-four and Brave New World, the controlling states effectively manipulate the population’s thoughts, through various controlling factors unique to each novel. ... The states in both Brave New World and Nineteen Eight-four are led by high-powered minority groups which oversee the rest of the population, although with differences in austerity. ... Brave New World teaches its policies through hypnopaedia, social predestination, and a state-distributed drug called soma, all which keeps the population content with their lives. ... The proles in Nineteen Eight-four are similar in idea to the savages in Brave New World, in that they are left alone to live without the control the rest of the population live under, without rules imposed on them. ...
In Brave New World, the population is pre-conditioned as embryos to define their class. ... The classes there are the Inner Party, then Outer Party members, and the proletarians, which are also similar to the Epsilons of Brave New World. The groups in Brave New World are programmed, both through the treatment as embryos and through hypnopaedia, to behave in the same way within their classes, and therefore allow social stability. ... ’ Crime flourished in these conditions, and things that normal Party members were strictly prohibited to do were allowed to go unreprimanded within the world of the proles. Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted… there was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitution, drug-peddlers and racketeers of every description.
Approximate Word count = 1182
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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