1984 and Brave New World Compare and Contrast

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell were written by men who witnessed war first hand on a global scale. Disturbed and frightened by what they saw, Huxley and Orwell both went on to write powerful pieces that illustrated their visions and fears of our future. By using carefully selected diction and imagery to illustrate their ideas, these men agreed that there would be a day when power would fall into the wrong hands, and future rulers would enslave the world to abide by their ideas and beliefs. Thus wiping out any form of democracy and voice. Great examples of this is when Orwell uses imagery to describe the Big Brother(much like Nazi Gestapo) and when Huxley uses imagery to describe the control of children and their births. Both of these authors were on the right track. Our current leader of the U.S. uses such technology to listen to and record our daily lives.Both of these books share the same thought, and vision of our future. Huxley provide their examples of this takeover of power by showing government control of technology, control of peoples minds and thoughts. Huxley’s novel illustrates a society that is carefully balanced, by reproduction and assignment of classes. Humans are tailored for each other's lives and designed to carry out specific task, thus completing their cycle of life. “These, he waved his hand, are the incubators. And opening an insulated door he showed them racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes.”(Huxley 34). During this quote Huxley uses imagery to illustrate the manner in which the government carefully breeds babies, as if there playing god. The superior advancement in technology allows the government to carefully monitor and model the children to perform in the way in which they wish. While people are not monitored instantly from birth the rulers of New London in 1984 use technology to monitor the
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