Comparing Orwell's Brave New World 'And 1984'

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People have often thought about the advancements of technology restricting and changing the way people live, and sometimes it is not for the better. In Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley, and 1984, By George Orwell, the advancements in the world led to a dystopian society being formed. To those outside of these societies the way it works seems awful and unfair, and unpleasant in almost all ways. Both of the novels are dystopian, and share a very similar type society. Both have an icon that represents the society, a motto for the community, and change the past to fit the ideologies of the society.

First, both dystopian societies have a leader of sorts, this person acts as an icon and represents the societies’ believes and power. In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother represents the rule of the party. He is the face of the propaganda and rule of the society’s leaders, the party. Orwell writes, “At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of ‘B-B!...B-B!’—over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first ‘B’ and the second—a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously …show more content…

In 1984 by George Orwell, the motto uses contradicting pairs of words that match the societies contradicting views. Orwell writes, “‘From Winston's flat it was just possible to see the three slogans of the Party written in enormous letters on the side of the building: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANC E IS STRENGT H….’” (Orwell, 1) In Brave New World, the motto that the citizens see posted as a type of propaganda also enforces the societies’ believes. Huxley writes, “...the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.” (Huxley, 1) Both mottos act to influence the people of the separate societies to believe in what is said to them. Both mottos are a type of propaganda in order to control the

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