BRAVE NEW WORLD AND 1984
...ree from the government. “If there was hope, it must, lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swimming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.” (60). It’s a pyramid of power starting with Big Brother and the Inner Party sliding down passed the Outer Party to the Proles. Not only are the worlds split up into classes but they are color coordinated. The meaning behind the colors are black and white along with blue collar and white collar workers. There is a higher class and a lower class where the higher class is considered more important and is given the better life. Both lower classes are conditioned to think highly of their roles in life. They are oblivious to the real picture but there is one who stands out. In both novels there is a main character who is aware of the chaos taking place. Both Bernard and Winston are influenced to rebel by an outside force. Each outside force, the savage and the Proles, are completely happy on their own because they are disconnected. John the savage and the Proles are the force that generate rebellion in these utopias. Both novels also display the members of society as zombies and keep them hindered from true happiness. Bernard and Winston are very similar in the way they are outcasts of society but they are a part of very different worlds. If the books are read one after the other one would see the broad differences between Oceania and the World State. “Considering that this book was written in 1933, it is oblivious that Huxley was astonishingly ahead of his time. The ambivalent feel of the narrative is totally opposite to Orwell’s masterpiece, giving a more sinister undertone to the book, rather than the overt terror of ‘1984’.” (Raynor, 1). In the World State the Alphas aren’t treated different from the Epsilons they are just more intelligent, but are still equally happy. The Inner Party is just living a completely different life from the Outer Party. The Outer Party works for the Inner Party and is controlled by them. Orwell is presenting the significance the lower class has to society but how they are not rewarded. Huxley is saying that all classes are equally happy but the lower class is less intelligent. Bernard is an upper class member and Winston is a lower class member but both of them want more out of life, they refuse to be governed. A. F. 632 stands for After Ford 632, not After Dominion. The members of society in the World State are praising Ford because God is banned. The thought of believing in a machine, the T-model, rather than a higher power is very upcoming. It’s also the only religion to believe in. Unity is formed by having every single member of the World State believe in one religious leader. “All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s. There was also a thing called God.” (52). Also, Presidents, Kings, and Prime Ministers are done away with. Mustapha Mond is one of the ten World controllers. He is the Western Europe leader but that doesn’t mean he is an enemy of Eastern Europe. They are all together to make a stable world. These leaders are the only ones who know of the past and what life was like before even though they say “history is bunk.”. In Oceania Big Brother is the head honcho. The members of society believe in him and him only. He really is just a figure head because he doesn’t exist. He’s made up by the Inner Party to keep order and to keep on hating Goldstein. They are bombarded with slogans and messages from Big Brother on the telescreens. They listen to everything he says and agree with everything they hear. Their own holiday is hate week where Big Brother stresses the fact that Goldstein is bad. “The new tune which was to be the theme song of Hate Week (the “Hate Song,” it was called) had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens.” (123). The Outer Party members question and answer to the Inner Party and Big Brother. Big Brother also tells the Outer Party members that their working supports the war and that it displays there patriotism. Big Brother and the Inner Party’s goal is to please themselves. Both authors seem to believe that one single leader solves the problem of discrimination. If everybody follows one person and believes in one person than there will be no discrimination. They are unified and taught to believe everything they hear. Each society has a symbol for unification and someone who joins them all together under one power. Mustapha Mond and O’Brien are very much alike by the means that each main character looks towards them for help and relief but they end up turning on them. Bernard ends up getting what he wants, exiled, and Winston loses who he is. Winston knows he wants more out of life and that what is happening to people is wrong. He is trying to do this on his own and it turns against him. Winston is beaten by “the man” and brainwashed into believing that Big Brother is superior. The only people he thought would help him turned out to be moles. Mr. Charrington cheated him out by disguising himself as a Prole. Winston isn’t freed until he fully agrees with and believes in Big Brother along with the Inner Party. “You’ve not controlled it. That is what has brought you here. You are here because you have failed in humility, in self-discipline…When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that every one else sees the same thing as you.” (205). Bernard on the other hand is aware of what soma and the slogans are doing to people. He tries to rebel and pass his declaration around but he is conquered by Mond who believes change is immoral and exiled to an island where he meets other people just like him. There are others who have wanted more out of life but no one knew about them. In the end members of the World State are free from the government and religion. Oceania doesn’t considered their rebel citizens free until they are forced to believe in the government and religion. The members of the World State aren’t watched but they are hindered from everything life has to offer. There is no love, emotion, or birth. Children are created out of a bottle and they have no real family. “My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable.” (41). They are conditioned to all think the same way and believe in the same thing. Not once do they have to make a difficult decision and as soon as they feel a...