... novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. Winston Smith (protagonist of 1984) is forced to love Big Brother by the starving rats in room 101. In Aldous Huxley's satire the World State's motto is Community, ... of nature", but in a world of six billion souls, masses of people cannot just be abandoned to die from starvation (Barnet 308). In the chapter entitled "Quantity, Quality, Morality" of Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley calls mass starvation as a means of preserving the earth the "horns of ... betwee...

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