Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty Four vs Do Androids...

For the Sake of Humanity Comparative Essay : Brave New World to Nineteen Eighty-Four and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The term dystopia aptly applies to all three of these novels in that each story is set in a future where society is less attractive than it is now. All three books are prefaced with a cataclysmic event that results in a dramatic change in society to address and avoid the perceived problems of present-day. Although each author takes a different approach to the solution, their worlds have striking similarities. Their underlying message is the same: mankind will dehumanize humanity in the name of humanity. In Huxleys Brave New World (B.N.W.), the cataclysmic event that rocks society is the Nine Years War,†¦show more content†¦He believes in personal satisfaction by overcoming adversity. He believes in creativity and individuality, and recognizes that without these man is less than human. Art, science Ââ€" you seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness John comments to the Controller (Huxley ,210). He challenges them that they have degraded man with their u topian control: Havent they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him? But the Controller explains that the truth is relative: Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hardworking, goods-consuming citizen hes perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But youve got to stick to one set of postulates (Huxley, 215). Eventually John is overcome by the irreconcilable differences between his view of life and the view of life propagated by the Controllers. In despair, or perhaps as his last expression of individual freedom, he hangs himself. Like Huxley, George Orwell creates a controlling utopian society in Nineteen Eighty-Four which degrades humanity. In this novel, the shift in civilization occurs following the Revolution, another movement that was based on economic control, (Orwell, 38). Like Brave New World, Orwell presents a highly controlled caste society. In B.N.W. the world is at peace, but in Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is in a constant state of war and militaristic control. Marriages are allowed for procreation