What Are The Similarities Between Brave New World And 1984

In the dystopian worlds from Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984, by George Orwell, both governments have supreme control over their citizens. The authors use hypnopedia, doublethink, and the restriction of language to portray that governments have the ability to control their citizens and strip them of their free will without their consent or realization. Both governments rely on the sacrifice of individuality and a state of mindlessness to reach an ultimate goal of stability and everlasting peace. They still have extreme regulations and punishments for those who do not conform, because it seems like the citizens have the ability to break out of the mold that was created for them. However, these additional techniques to make the

In 1984 the punishment is far more violent and physically abusive, however, both 1984 and Brave New World’s government’s punishments have the same purpose, to rid society of the undesirable traits that could cause rebellion. O'Brien, a high raking inner party member in 1984, tells Winston that he brought him to the Ministry of Love " To cure [him]! To make [him] sane!.. Winston, … no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them" (Orwell 319). A more figurative punishment in Brave New World is exile. The news of Brenard’s banishment “galvanized [him] into violent and unseemly activity … “Oh, please don’t send me to Iceland. … Give me another chance. … Still shouting and sobbing. Bernard was carried out. “One would think he was going to have his throat cut,” said the Controller" (Huxley 154-155). Both parties “destroy” those who might cause change. The punishments they are given equal the pain of having one’s “throat cut” or reconditioning them until they have no part of themselves left, until they’ve “change[d]”. Bernard and Wiston have the ability to think outside the box so were disciplined in an especially harsh manner. They underwent the same conditioning methods of doublethink and hours of hypnopedia as the rest of their comrades but the government has a backup plan. Once Bernard returns with John to the civilized world, the director of the DHC states “I propose to dismiss him to a Sub Centre of the lowest order [for] best interest of Society, as far as possible removed from any important Centre of population” (101). All of the crimes the government commits against its unorthodox have the justification of increasing well being of the rest citizenry. Bernard