... blind, but he recovered enough to later attend Oxford University. He married Maria Nys in 1919 and had their only child Matthew in 1920. Aldous Huxley also spent time all throughout the world, including fascist Italy ("Aldous" n. pag.). Leach 2 Unlike Aldous Huxley, Eric Arthur Blair was born to a lesser-known family in an Indian village near the border of Nepal in 1903. Blair, who later ... Party can alter all records of the past ("Tracking; Reality" n. pag.). Procreation is yet another theme that plays a role in both novels. Huxley and Orwell have different ideas in their respective d...

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... to the point where the personal freedoms and rights of the people diminished. Authors, such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley began to publish novels that illustrated this developing dystopia. In Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984, the authors portray a controlling government in order to exemplify the theme ... a form of social conditioning and artificial insemination in order to achieve stability. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explores this social conditioning in the opening chapters. The Director explains, "They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives ... freedo...

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... past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism, where the society was controlled almost exclusively by punishment and the fear of punishment. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian Tyrant had not ... creating and manipulating humans in Brave New World. The next quote "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" (Huxley, Chapter 1) is an illustration of how the government visualizes and trusts the genetically-altered reproducing methods to maintain stability in the societ...

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