1984 And Brave New World Comparative Analysis

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In 1984, written by George Orwell, and Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, relationships are centered around romance, which inflicts contrasting feelings, thoughts, and emotions amongst the characters. However; in both novels’, romantic relationships are set to achieve one goal: a centralization of power within a society. Both novels have a head of all this power within their society and each head has structured or has influenced their society to follow their rules on how to live life so that they can increase their own power. In 1984 and Brave New World, the representation of a romantic relationship, through varying techniques such as marriage, sex, and family relations, is used as a method to centralize power because of the lack of true passion and to keep stability and continuity within a society.

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For instance, in 1984 Winston is discussing the use marriage within the Party and how Katherine (whom he was married to) only wanted to create children in their marriage and not have meaningful sex. Winston says, “The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like …show more content…

Throughout both novels themes of marriage, sex, and family is constantly depicted. But both authors intend to convey the larger hidden theme which is that these subthemes are used to help exemplify the power the head’s of both societies have through the manipulation and abuse of this power on the society

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