1984 and brave new world

1. 1984 and brave new world Santiago Gonzalez Brad Fortunado Kaila Krauser

2. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley "Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time." • " Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

3. Huxley to Orwell • “Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”

4. Government Control • Physical Control • Mental Control

5. Physical Control Compare 1984 Brave New World • The Ministry of Love “The Thought Police would get him just the same.” • The Ministry of Peace “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows.” • “’Send me to an island?’ He jumped up, ran across the room, and stood gesticulating in front of the Controller.” • State Police

6. Physical Control Contrast 1984 Brave New World • How Proles are treated • Ultimate action against rebellion, “Vaporization” • “Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon hereditary?” • Soma, the drug of bliss with none of the consequences.

7. Mental Control Compare 1984 Brave New World • Propaganda- “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” • War and Ministry of Peace • “There used to be something called God-before the Nine Years’ War.” • “There were those strange rumors of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller’s study. Bibles, poetry-Ford knew what.”

8. Mental Control Contrast 1984 Brave New World • Paranoia- “Big Brother is Watching You.” • “Hateful” Society • Promote sex as a “duty to the party” • Conditioning • “Everyone belonged to everyone” (Sexually) • “Yes, everybody’s happy now.”

9. Protagonist Compare: Isolation So what? Both Orwell and Huxley display a sense of rebellion in their characters, in similar ways. Bernard and Winston regularly take part in illegal or frowned upon activities as a form of “rebellion,” and these “rebellions” gradually become more rebellious in nature. In relation to dystopia, both characters feel as if they are different from other citizens, out of place in the world they reside in.

10. Protagonist Contrast: Isolation So what? Although similarly displayed and with similar motives, Bernard and Winston rebel in two completely opposite ways. In the dystopia created in Brave New World, everyone is always accompanied by someone, and it frowned upon to stay to ones self; yet this is exactly what Bernard strives for. In 1984, Winston wants nothing more than to have someone that shares his feelings and sentiments, but socializing with other party members is considered suspicious and illegal in some cases.

11. Protagonist Compare: Role in Dystopia So what? Bernard works at the Central London Hatchery presiding over the next generation of human beings. Winston is employed by The Party to work at The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) to edit and twist events so that they benefit Big Brother. Both hold positions that help the government perform their submission and suppression. Yet, both hold positions of power in which, if they succeeded in their “rebellion,” could spell disastrous effect on the government inn each respective dystopia.

12. Protagonist Contrast: Role in Dystopia So what? In relation to each dystopia, Winston creates the propaganda and lies that are to be shoved down the citizens throat, while Bernard helps makes make the citizens themselves. One is led by science to do his job, the other led by logic and lies.

13. Social Stratification • Brave New World class system "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.“ Chapter 2- • 1984 class system She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. 'We are the dead,' he said." Chapter 3

14. Higher Classes 1984: Inner Party Brave New World: Alpha and Beta • Make up central government • “the Party” • Special privileges • Best life conditions • One unique egg develops into one unique fetus • Develop naturally • Mature to term • Normal Brain function • Considered geniuses • “Each time he found himself looking on the level, instead of downward, into a Delta’s face, he felt humiliated. Would the creature treat him with respect due to his caste? The question haunted him.”

15. Middle Classes 1984: Outer Party Brave New World: Gamma and Delta • Work for “the Party” • “Middle Class” • Most controlled class • Poor living conditions • "Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema." • Created using Bokanovsky Method • Single ovary can produce thousands of children • Make up a majority of the society

16. Lower Classes 1984: Proles Brave New World: Epsilons • "They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds." • Less watched by “the Party” • 85% of Oceania • “ ‘The lower the caste,’ said Mr. Foster, ‘the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected is the the brain. At seventy percent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters.” • •Created through Bokanovsky process • •The most altered • •"The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moro"

17. As Mrs. Oehrlein would say…So What? Therefore, in Brave New World, social mobility is impossible. The People of their society are predestined for their caste, and “conditioned” to love it. On the other hand, in 1984, the people hypothetically could have social mobility, but feel as though they have no hope of escaping their horrible living conditions. Both authors use the ideas of social stratification to create dystopia, but in unique ways.

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19. Images • http://pecangroup.org/homeland-insecurity/police-state • http://psywar.org/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell