Utopias Are Simply Reflections Of The Real World From Which They Are Produced

In 1984, by George Orwell, the main character is Winston Smith, a man who doubts the righteousness of the totalitarian government (Big Brother) that rules Oceania, one of three super states in the world of 1984. We begin the book with Winston, and learn that Big Brother is fictional. The government has developed its own language, is at constant war with the other two super states, and watches its citizens at all times. As Winston's rebellion progresses, we notice that Big Brother is not as unrealistic as we think. Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia are the three battling super states. Each has an identical government, one that is at perpetual war in order to gain complete power over its inhabitants. The process used to gain absolute power is one used by past, present, and future dictato

The time traveller then discovers the meat-eating Morlocks who dwell underground, having evolved into being unable to be on the surface, except at night. They, by dint of maintaining their required air pumps, are more capable, physically and mentally, than the Eloi. Given this new information, the time traveller theorizes that shortly after his own time, the upper class, tired of seeing slums, relegated the labour class to working and living underground, while they alone enjoyed the increasing splendours of the surface. Much later, after a serious social breakdown, the Morlocks, no longer being fed, had to fend for themselves and, in effect, turned the Eloi into their cattle.

Edward Bellamy's extremely influential Looking Backward is not one of them: rather it is a kind of new age utopia. Possibly, from this Orwell became inspired to write 1984. The similarities between the two books are startling. The voyage is by mesmerism; evolution has worked its wonders in only a century with the wealthy industrialists peacefully turning over to the state the means of production because it is the right thing to do. Boston in the year 2000 is run by means of an industrial army, which produces a flood of goods in which everyone wallows equally. Looking Backward written at the same time as H.G. Well’s Book, The Time Machine, but is a stark contrast to it.

The Time Machine is the font for a half century of almost uninterrupted dystopias. In it, the voyage forward to the year 801,701 AD is via the time traveller’s newly invented machine of mature industrialism and new burgeoning science. Expecting to find a greatly advanced civilization, the time traveller encounters instead a humanity very much on the wane. The Eloi, small weak and lacking in interests and attention span, spend their days idly in the lush, pest-free, fruit-laden valley of the Thames garden, and their nights huddled fearfully in once magnificent palaces.

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