George Orwell Brave New World Analysis

Countless people pursue perfection as their ultimate goal, thereforeso it makes sense that attempting to create a perfect society has been a common goal for centuries. Unfortunately, everyone’s view of perfection is different, making this ultimate goal not only unobtainable but also problematic. At first glance, the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Animal Farm by George Orwell seems simply to be about yet another noble pursuit of perfection, but underneath the surface, both novels demonstrate the perils of striving towards the perfect society at the cost of individual liberty. In order to overshadow any possible criticisms to their particular view of perfection, characters in both novels continuously trash and condemn any previous societies and practices. In Animal Farm, whenever any characters question

In Animal Farm, the ultimate goal of what they called animalism was originally equality, yet eventually a hierarchy appears and eventually is justified “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” (Orwell 43) The hierarchy becomes so extreme that the pigs who have emerged as the top of the new social class of supposed equality are indistinguishable from the previous society’s rulers, the humans whom they had overthrown “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” (45) One of the major downfalls in Brave New World is how completely determined each person’s life is by technology. For instance, a person’s life can be easily altered or ended because of a mistake made while they were developing in a test tube “Twenty-two years, eight months, four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis—the first case in over half a century.” (Huxley