What Is The Difference Between 1984 And George Orwell's 1984

When people predict the future, they usually foresee events or advances that they want to experience, such as world peace or flying cars. This is the case in neither Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World nor George Orwell’s 1984. In both novels, Huxley and Orwell extract their fears from their own minds and place them into a futuristic society. Social critic, Neil Postman, contrasts both of these author’s fears. In his contrast, Postman determines that both Huxley’s fears and representation of a future society are more prevalent in modern society than those of Orwell’s. What makes Postman’s assertion true is the acceptance of oppression and the effects of technology which Huxley’s society and the modern United States share over Orwell’s society in

In Huxley’s novel, the government uses distractions in the form of technology to prevent any changes from occurring in society. Conditioning center workers implant the instinct in each growing child’s mind that he/she should never have free time to think. Instead, he/she should have continuous distractions. The government helps in this process by providing many different distractions. An example of this would be the feelies. Every night, London citizens can go to a cinema, which plays a movie that not only one can watch, but can also smell and feel. Going to the feelies gives people a sense of pleasure, making them want to go more and more. For people to “. . . have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think…” is the government’s aim, making it so that people will be too busy enjoying their pleasures to make any discoveries, which could then destroy society (40). Most governments consider new advances in science and art as good, however, in Huxley’s London, “…science is a public danger…as dangerous as it’s been beneficent” (168). Due to this unwanted feeling towards science, technology in London distracts people from engaging in it, thus keeping society virtually the same for long periods of time. Although the United States embraces science, art, and all of their advances, technology still remains as a setback to society. As

In order to receive many of their freedoms, people in both Huxley’s London and the United States choose to embrace their government’s strict laws. Along with that, people of both societies affect the world negatively by distracting themselves with technology, ranging from a cell phone to the feelies. Doing so keeps these people away from making any scientific or artistic advances. The government of 1984 does share the quality of hiding information from its people with the United States, however, while absolute dominance motivates the Party, the well-being of the people motivates the United States government. Since the United States does have that motive of caring for its people, it has little chance of ever being like the Oceanian government where no person matters besides Big