Compare And Contrast Brave New World And 1984

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, share common feature that the power holder uses advanced technology to control its citizens. In terms of controlling the masses, the method of technology use vary according to the hegemonic idea or ruling policy. In these two texts, the hegemonic ideas are completely different: Brave New World is based on an extreme consumerist society, and 1984 manages society based on totalitarian ideology. The difference in ruling policy for the society management has a huge influence on technology use. When people see each technology use in these texts, they suggest the harshness or the dark side of the social system but, by comparing the mass people reactions to the society system and technology …show more content…

The technology character or quality among the society is pretty much settled by ideology and social environment which mean that the technology itself is a neutral. When compare the two texts, both texts can say they have conservative quality in their ideology but, those ideology are completely different. In 1984, they are in the war state that the party treat citizen more like a supply. In contrast, Brave New World hegemonic ideology is keep citizen happy and separate from harshness of the world. To achieve this happy state, it is important to keep citizen stable. According to the Huxley statement, “Mother, monogamy, romance. … how could they be stable? “ (40) suggest that Mustafa Mond who is one of the world controller decided to ban many of human historic works to stable the society by using technology such as conditioning, hypnopedia and substitute various pleasures in human life with pleasure which occurred by soma and free sex. In the other hands, in 1984, the power holder took away the freedom and pleasure from the citizen. Unlike the Brave New World’s pleasure substitution, pleasure subtraction only gives possibility of rising instability among the society. To minimize the instability and manage effective society, separate citizen from the factor of instability by technology is far more effective than observation and restriction of the citizen like in

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