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A Brave New World and 1984
Many people have tried to predict the future. Eerily enough Aldous Huxley and George Orwell seemed to have a sense of what our world was headed towards with many of their ideas. The main idea behind Huxley’s Brave New World was to show how technology and the government could change the very nature of man. Orwell’s 1984 focused more on the way war and dictatorship in a society can shape a world into a place where its citizens live in constant terror and paranoia. ... A Brave New World was written almost a year before Hitler came to power and World War II broke out a few years later. ... 1984 was published a few years after the war. The two books Brave New World and 1984 have many of the same visions and themes yet the two books manage to still be so different. ... In Brave New World Huxley uninhibited sex is considered to be constructive and encouraged. In 1984 that is just the opposite. The party, the government in 1984, thinks of sex as a dirty thing and the only time that it should be practiced is in the event of procreation. ... Desire was thought crime” (1984, pg 59). ... In A Brave New World sex was merely an act of lust. Huxley made promiscuity a norm in A Brave New World. ... Lenina is encouraged to go from man to man in A Brave New World. In 1984 the main woman character Julia is encouraged not to have sex and even vows to remain a virgin. ... ”(A Brave New World, PG 40-41) Women who aren’t sterile have to take birth control in A Brave New World. ... Right from the beginning in a Brave New World the women are deemed to be second-rate.
Approximate Word count = 1505
Approximate Pages = 6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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