Two Plus Two Equals Five Analysis

Two plus Two equals five. When you read this, immediately your mind tells you that that is incorrect and the answer should be four. In the book 1984 they believe that if you repeated something so many times, then it would become true. In some way, that is correct for example, when you are living with a big lie and you keep telling everyone that it is true, then eventually you will start to believe it. I do not believe that that method works with mathematical or factual examples though. It is a different situation though because we were taught that two plus two equals four. If you were raised with two plus two equals five, then you would believe the repeating method is the way to solve any situation. The media in 1984 is crazy different from our society today. In todays world, we are controlled by the government but to a certain limit. In the book they are controlled by the government in every aspect of their life. They were told that they were not

So in some aspects we are alike but also very different. Such as in the textbook, I feel like there society was full of required readers, meaning that they only read what they had to for their jobs and studies. I honestly think the reason that everyone went along everything in 1984 and Brave New World is because they were terrified of what would happen to them if they disobeyed. That relates in to todays world because it is the same thing, we are terrified of the consequences that will happen if we disobey the government so we just stick to following the rules and hoping that we do not do anything wrong. Comparing the two books, 1984 and Brave New World, I would have to say that in our society we are heading towards more of a Brave New World world. We are not heading towards a 1984 society because they were completely cut off from friends and