10 things the two novels BRAVE NEW WORLD and 1984 have in common

  

BRAVE NEW WORLD vs 1984

     1.   The concept of family is abolished

1984 Family isn’t a safe place

Brave New World----no family is allowed

2.    A central theme is the importance of CONTROL

1984  Control through fear

BRAVE NEW WORLD  Control through pleasure

3.    No interest in books and reading

1984 Books are banned---there’s a sort of  machine writing books

BRAVE NEW WORLD  No one wants to read books anymore

4.    No real information

1984 People are deprived of true information about current events and the past ones

BRAVE NEW WORLD  No one has a real interest in what really happens in the world. Everyone is entrapped in his own self and basically he is passive

5.    No TRUTH

1984 truth is concealed from us

BRAVE NEW WORLD  truth will be drowned in a sea of meaningless and useless pieces of information

6.    No CULTURE or real ART

1984 passivity

BRAVE NEW WORLD  trivial culture

7.    No real feelings

1984 no love, no real friendship, no solidarity

BRAVE NEW WORLD  only happiness connected with sex and the use of a drug-soma

8.    Disruption of traditional language

1984 Newspeak a new dictionary. It seeks to reduce language to the functional minimum so people cannot express their thoughts and fight against the system

BRAVE NEW WORLD  In Brave New World, language has been changed in many ways. 'Mother' is an obscene term. People are brainwashed with banal slogans like "I take a gramme and only am"

9.    Technological advance used against human beings

1984 new technology is used to constantly control people everywhere

BRAVE NEW WORLD   mass producing babies, the feelies-movie theatre enhancing all your senses

10.                    No individualism

1984 people wear a uniform, they have no real freedom, they cannot express their real thoughts, they cannot change class or condition, freedom is slavery is one of the slogans of the Party

BRAVE NEW WORLD   people wear the same colour as others in their class, they are born with a specific purpose to fulfil, they cannot move from one caste to another; the motto is community, identity, stability