Dystopia In Brave New World

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better” (Orwell 262). For many people a perfect Utopia requires both happiness and freedom, but what is a Utopia? A Utopia is a made up place or state, in which everything in it is considered to be perfect. But on the other hand we have a Dystopia, which is generally what Utopias become. Dystopias generally are in a state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. But even though these societies are complete and total opposites they can both coexist in the same society. One part of the society can be living the high life and be on the top of the world, while the rest of them are just left to suffer. An example of this kind of society would

“The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats…Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours” (Orwell 1). The outer party is left with the shambles that a city contains. They barely get any supplies and their rations continue to be cut smaller and smaller. It is also a very disgusting and unsanitary place, with everything of theirs worn down and old. Sadly there is nothing anyone can do or say, without catching the attention of the Thought Police. "People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word"(Orwell 19). This group of people will wipe out your existence, without a second thought, because it is their job, so they do it with the utmost acceptance. In order to avoid this group you have to abide by every slogan and monitor all your thoughts, or stop them if you know they will be unorthodox. This also is not a choice; people are forced to live in these less than suitable conditions with the constant threat of being “unpersoned” etched into their hearts. To even have such a group of people just

This group was started in 1953, by a man named Jim Jones. Jones grew up separated from the rest of the town he lived in Indianapolis. He learned to view all men as equal and that upset many people in his town, due to how big of a problem racism was at that time. So he chose to leave and take the followers he gathered to the little city of Ukiah, California in 1965. It was a very rural area and only 12 to 15 cars went with Jones there. But everyone pitched in, soon houses went up and they had a thriving community of 141 people. Anything you ever needed was just at the tips of your fingers, work, food, care for the elderly, a ride and supplies. Everyone went to work for eight hours and came back and helped build, take care of the community and attend meetings until late in the morning. People often prided themselves in the little amount of sleep they got each night because it meant that they were helping others and making Jonestown stronger. But it did not stop there, Jones would buy used buses and they would slowly refurbish them until they were in great condition. Then they would drive all up and down California to recruit people and spread the ‘amazing’ qualities of the group. They even took the busses across the country, all the way to Philadelphia. It was their perfect Utopia for about nine years; with their numbers continuing to grow, but then Jim Jones himself started to