1984 And Brave New World Dystopia Essay

Throughout generations there have been hundreds and hundreds of novels regarding the future of society. Many dystopian works create various ideas of distant worlds that are nothing like modern times.Some are meant solely for the purpose of entertainment, and some can be taken as a warning for what is possibly the fate of humankind. In reality, some dystopias are not as distant as they seem. Authors like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley wrote their dystopian novels pertaining to how they felt society would become one day. 1984 by Orwell focuses on the dark oppression of society by dictatorship,while Brave New World by Huxley focuses on the oblivion of the people. According to Neil Postman’s contrast of Orwell’s and Huxley’s visions, the only difference between the two is fear and pleasure. “ Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin

Huxley feared that society would be reduced to passivity and egoism by too many pleasurable things. Matters like social media can be the equivalent of too much pleasure. Social media feeds the ego by making people feel important if they have huge followings and are gaining approval. This also feeds people loads of dopamine. The obsession with this pleasure leads to oblivion to bigger things going on in society. This happens to sound just like Brave New World. The ‘feelies’ and ‘orgy porgies’ gave the people a great deal of pleasure that they remained content and distracted. Also, in today’s pop culture not holding romantic relationships is starting to be idolized. Just like in Brave New World humans have sexual relations with other humans without any type of romantic involvement. It is even becoming taboo of someone being faithful among the younger generations. Eventually everyone will be everyone else's’ as in Brave New World. These pleasures are ultimately a distraction and can preoccupy a whole society from