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Language, History and Propaganda as Means of Control in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) are perhaps the most significant dystopian novels of the twentieth century. The books are often compared with each other, as they are similar in many points, but also fundamentally different in how their totalitarian governments keep the citizens in check (the Party uses force, while the World State appears on the surface as a utopia whose citizens never notice their lack of freedom). This paper is an examination of how Orwell and Huxley’s dystopias are reflected in today’s society, with the focus on the most important means of control used by a totalitarian system: namely the control of language, the suppression of history and propaganda.

language; history; propaganda; dystopia; totalitarianism

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