![]() Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us." In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. ![]() Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.īut we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. ![]() I've taught this book twice to high school classes, and I've found this analysis relevant (from "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman): Now thats a world I would not want to live in. If you want a real dystopia, read Orwell's 1984. With problems in todays world such as war, unemployment, increasing food prices, increasing health care costs, Brave New World seems like a more promising place. If they integrated with that society they could join everyone else in living like kings. Who cares if the natives lived in crappy reservations. ![]() Philosophy has little relevance to the real world anyways. Who cares if that society stifled philosophic inquiry. To top it off, there was hardly any crime, everybody knew each other well, and there are wild parties everywhere. Not only is everybody employed in Brave New world, eveybody has the job of their dreams. The only reason people went to hospitals where for physical injuries. There was no war, no diseases, no famine, and no unemployment in Brave New World. However from reading that book, Brave New World seemed more like a paradise. I know Aldous Huxly intends on depicting Brave New world as some kind of dystopia. Check out /r/AskLiteraryStudies if you have questions about literature and literary studies that you'd like answered by experts! All are welcome.Spoilers must be marked by an alert and obscured with Reddit editor's spoiler masking system. Please do not seek feedback or instruction on your writing.ĭo not submit videos vaguely related to literature. This includes written work, social media, medium, youtube, apps, or any other channel/material you are associated with. This includes posting surveys.ĭo not submit any form of advertising or self-promotion. Content: Do not submit posts that contain questions and no other content.ĭo not request help on homework assignments (students) or curriculum content (teachers). Analysis: Submissions must include poster's own analysis in either the body or the comments of a post. Relevance: Submissions must relate to literature, literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, or literary news. We are not /r/books: please do not use this sub to seek book recommendations or homework help. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome. Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels.
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