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Devlin Ramirez
Ms. Seewagen
English 11 B
18 October 2006
Total Dystopia

Society is always trying to find perfection, but no matter how hard any society try’s perfection is incapable of being achieved. In 1984 by George Orwell, Oceania is future London, where a totalitarian government is at rule. Big Brother is the perceived ruler that is said to always be watching. People in Oceania do not have a sense of thoughts they do what they are told and controlled by the party. In a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the novel takes place in 2540 A.D. London The novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, people where to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. The Alpha embryos are destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State. The Epsilons, stunted and stupefied by oxygen deprivation and chemical treatments, are destined to perform menial labor. Both novels show how society tired to create the perfect Society, however what they cause was total dystopia.
Two Literary Terms George Orwell applies in his novel are foreshadowing and Irony. An Example of Foreshadowing in the novel is when Winston dreams that he is making love to Julia in the Golden Country. Another Example of Foreshadowing is meeting O’Brien in the place of no darkness. An example of Irony is that Winston hates Julia in the beginning of the novel because he thinks she is thought Police:
"Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about her. He disliked nearly all woman, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy" (1984 pg 12).
When in reality she is the total opposite she hates the...