Certainly, both Aldous Huxley’s futuristic novel, Brave New World, and George Orwell’s 1984, also futuristic in the era in which it was written, foresaw the loss of individuality within controlled states. Both societies were run by totalitarian governments that had conditioned the minds of their citizens in order to destroy all chances of distinctiveness, and human’s natural hunger for knowledge. Totalitarianism is also seen in Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, where citizens of the World State are made synthetically and conditioned for their pre-determined caste system. Methods of control illustrated in 1984 and Brave New World depicts a futuristic era where science progresses to perfection and creates new technology, mind control, and caste systems that affects and stabilizes humanity.
The manipulation of the mind is used within both societies to ensure societal stability. Orwell portrays a state in which the government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that having a disloyal thought is against the law. Orwell expresses the absolute power the government has;
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall…show more content… Although the two books are diverse, both authors predicted many of the same futuristic ideologies they believed would soon become the present concerns of society. Huxley showed us a world where science and technology ruled the world. As for Orwell, he created a world society where Government and political power played a role of world domination. As Lenina, of Brave New World, stated, “progress is lovely” (Huxley
