At this point the question arises as to whether or not his suicide can be regarded as an embrace of death rather than a confrontation with it. Apart from these issues, the novel presents a picture of John the Savage in his travel to the World State from the savage reservation where he was biologically born, and of the ensuing events that eventually lead to his self-confinement and self-annihilation in a lighthouse. Lastly, I will briefly discuss whether the future portrayed in the books has been reached today in any sense.Īldous Huxley, the British novelist, focuses in his dystopian novel Brave New World on issues such as the annihilation of the individual for the sake of the State, the eradication of social institutions like the family, biological conditioning, classification of the people into particular segments, and sexuality without a reproductive purpose. That is, I will try to discover if their construction was based on the authors’ true life lessons and if these, in turn, are reflected or prevalent in the characters. Through the eyes of John the Savage and Winston Smith, who are not only connected by their marginal and repressive situation in society, but also because they are direct witnesses of that change the authors feared, I will try to demonstrate whether they can be representative of the voices and thoughts of Huxley and Orwell, respectively. That change, they contemplated, would aggravate with the pass of time. In their opinion, keeping in mind the different contexts in which they lived, both contemporary societies and individuals were suffering from a change the latter being transformed into one more part of a highly hierarchical industrial and social apparatuses. These, dystopia and their travel experiences, allowed them to clearly express their critiques once they arranged to write the novels.
Following, I deal with their opinions about the effects of industrial and technological advances, such as propaganda, as for what they witnessed because of their travels and personal experiences. Firstly, I succintly comment the outcomes of the two world wars in England to, then, relate them to the authors’ choice of the dystopian genre. The main objective of my study is based on the literary analysis of two novels: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World in relation to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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