Aldous Huxley And Orwell s Dystopian Dispute - 1882 Words

Huxley and Orwell’s Dystopian Dispute This essay aims to note the various ways in which our modern times share, although diluted, notable aspects central to the dystopian cities in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and the setting called Oceania in 1894 by George Orwell. In both novels the reality of its citizens have been sculpted by a direct effort from the residing government. Their aim is principally at controlling the one facet that guides and motivates humans, their seeking of pleasure. Their approaches are extreme and are complete opposite from one another, yet strangely enough, both authors predicted and warned about a future that, scary enough, has common aspects that are easy to point out in our own society. The issue that each†¦show more content†¦The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age,† (151). The controller explains the rational for designing a citizen that is too naà ¯ve to understand or appreciate the Savages cherished Othello. He says, â€Å"That’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and scent organ instead,† (151). Simply put, the Controller explains that it is better to have citizens which are ignorant to the real issues around them than to have a society intelligent enough to want change. He likens change to social instability, which of course means no more ha ppiness for all of its citizens. This can be easily likened to our own society. It is quite obvious to state that we live in a time where which technology that grants us access to the internet, and all of its associated vices, is easily attainable and extremely common. And although, in general, in the United States, crime is less frequent than ever, conflict continues to and frequently worsens worldwide. Unless that conflict provides some perverse kind of entertainment typically devoid of any rational constructive analysis or solutions, more often than not,