Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is far more relevant today and has a higher possibility of actually transpiring in the near future compared to George Orwell’s 1984. Even though both of the two, which are totalitarian societies, are based on plausible premises, the utopia illustrated in Brave New World still has a opportunity to appear today, while the “Big Brother” controlled society presented in George Orwell’s 1984, being based off of totalitarian societies to some extent that existed at the time the book was written, is simply obsolete.

Brave New World continues to be believable in modern times because of the events that led to the creation of Huxley’s utopia have a higher chance of happening in the near future or even tomorrow. In both books, the birth of Brave New World totalitarian society is brought on by a devastating war that probably involved the entire world. However in 1984, the war is still in the process of being fought, giving the reader an impression that somewhere out there in the world there is still a non-totalitarian society that could defeat the nightmarish totalitarian state created by George Orwell. In Brave New World, the war that came before the creation of the utopia has long since passed, but it often appears at times as though this utopia has always existed. This makes it a lot easier to believe then Big Brother, especially since the world is at peace it makes it a lot more believable for it to occur. Also the technology depicted in Brave New World war seems particularly more significant in modern times. In Utopia, Mustapha Mond, Western Europe Controller mentions that they fought using anthrax bombs in the war preceding the inception of their society. Because biological weapons are used and have beco...

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...nt to modern times and has a greater chance of occurring in the future compared to 1984 Big Brother. While both novels have an equal chance of happening in the future, the two worlds were brought into existence through different events. Also the Big Brother idea, has a faint historical basis, Orwell wanted to reflect the totalitarian system of communist governments that existed in his era. Huxley’s doesn’t hint in Brave New World whether Utopia imitates a totalitarian society in real history, allowing it to be possible in any era, while the Communist regimes that ruled during 1984 does not exist anymore. At last, 1984 Big Brother inflicts its dominance by controlling them with fear, while Utopia uses pleasure. So therefore, Utopia would most likely occur and if it were to arise at anytime, it would last longer becase its easier to control people through pleasure.