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George Orwells 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Nazi Germany, and Stalin ruled Russia can all be related to Walker Percys essay, The Loss of the Creature. In the book 1984 the world is run by a brainwashing committee called the Party. ...
One of the things Percy writes in his essay is almost exactly like the new world in 1984; Percy states, ". ... Where Winston had his own ideas, ideas other than the Partys, the rest of Oceania was like sheep because they all followed Big Brother; whatever Big Brother said was truth to the people of Oceania which is written on page 64 of Orwells 1984, "It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question was pure fantasy”. ... Applied to 1984, "the loss of sovereignty", as Percy puts it, can be very dangerous. ... Applied to Germany, the Hitler Youth was much like the Youth League of 1984; they also had the songs, slogans, sports, camaraderie, etc:
“Among the prayers the children were required to memorize was this one: Adolf Hitler, you are our great Fuhrer. ... When all the people had given up their sovereignty it gave all the power the people had to their leaders, which is why losing sovereignty can be dangerous; it can lead to a totalitarian style of government as demonstrated in 1984, BNW, and throughout history, "The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not the power over things, but over men. ...
What Im implying is that Percys Loss Of The Creature relates very well with Orwells 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, Nazi Germany, and Stalin Russia because Percys essay is full of examples that describe how to lose and keep sovereignty, it also describes the "struggle for himself", and that "unless he knows that there is a struggle he is going to be just what the planner thinks he is," (Bartholomae & Petrosky, 578); while one of the themes in Orwells and Huxley’s stories is a mans struggle for himself, "but it was alright, the struggle was finished.
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Approximate Pages = 11.2
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