... every utopian/dystopian writer that followed. Nevertheless, dystopian stories take invariably take place in the future. The year 1984 may have past, but George Orwell's story described a plausible future scenario when it was published for the first time in 1949 and it may still come true in a ... simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. The hero (there are very few female heroines in traditiona...

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... Society is somewhat controlled by the leadership of a country and is often mirrored by the literature of that era. The social issues that George Orwell and Thomas More wrote about in 1984 and Utopia respectively, are indicative of their perspective of the leadership in the world at that given time ... life for its citizens. The Oceanic government is the epitome of totalitarianism because all actions are based on Big Brother's "infallible and all-powerful" nature (Orwell, 1949, p. 34). For all of the attention directed in his direction, one would expect that Big Brother was a major charac...

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... Society is somewhat controlled by the leadership of a country and is often mirrored by the literature of that era. The social issues that George Orwell and Thomas More wrote about in 1984 and Utopia respectively, are indicative of their perspective of the leadership in the world at that given time ... life for its citizens. The Oceanic government is the epitome of totalitarianism because all actions are based on Big Brother's "infallible and all-powerful" nature (Orwell, 1949, p. 34). For all of the attention directed in his direction, one would expect that Big Brother was a major charac...

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... designed a utopian Republic, while Karl Marx radically changed the face of the earth by offering a secular state that is supposed to be sufficient for all. In more contemporary literature pieces, George Orwell gave us a view of what a utopia gone bad might look like. In Aldous Huxley's version of utopia, we see that no matter how wonderful everything is on the outside, there ... dark, to have the light. This is why a world that forces humans to be happy, is not a utopia, and any society pursuing utopia in this manner is doomed to fail. George Orwell did not even try to sugarcoat anythin...

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