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Submission Of Societies

Submission of Societies Nicole Simes - English 11
"Oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to
revolt but to submission." This concept can be clearly seen in
both Brave New World and 1984, even though the structure
of their societies are different. The goal of their respective
governments is the same, total control of society. The
governments use similar tactics of manipulation, with the
purpose of keeping the majority in ignorance and
submission. The governments in 1984 and Brave New
World weakened their citizens with ignorance and silenced
them with fear. In 1984 the proles were considered to be
completely without thought, and regarding the actions of the
Party they in fact were. The ignorance of the proles allowed
them to continue on with their lives without the burden of
knowledge of the Party. Those in the Party who had
somewhat of an idea of the motives and deception of the
higher members were silenced with the fear of death and
torture. This enabled the party to prevent a revolt from ever
occurring. The people who were caught and subjected to
torture were not killed or injured to confess their crimes,
instead they were physically, intellectually and emotionally
reborn. They loved the Party and more importantly they
loved Big Brother. In Brave New World this triumph over
the individual and destruction of the sprit of man does not
happen in the same way. The citizens in Brave New World
have almost no need to be reborn to love the Party, or the
State in their case. This is so because they truly had no
human spirit in the beginning, for without true love and
nurturing from parents and real interaction with others at
young ages, and without even a real birth, those in Brave
New World do not need to be changed by the state because
all that they have learned is that which the state as imbued
them with. There is, however, precautionary measures of
fear, used in case the preconditioning of an individual was
reversed at some point in time. The citizens grow up with the
fear of being shipped to a far off island for a life of intense
manual labor if they do not succumb to the standards of their
society. The control of the people was to assure the power
of the main leaders, such as Big Brother and the World
Controller. For the societies of 1984 and Brave New World
to exist, the manipulation of the citizens must occur. In 1984,
the Party has control over everything, including the minds of
its people. Double think is a kind of manipulation of the
mind, used by the rulers of Oceania. This makes people
accept contradictions, and believe that the party is the only
institution that distinguishes between right and wrong. It
denies the citizens any possibility of questioning rapid and
hypocritical changes in the policies of the Party. Doublethink
ensures orthodoxy and loyalty in spite of anything that may
occur. The Party also created newspeak as a tool to
promote and enforce doublethink. Newspeak manipulates its
citizens into thinking a certain way. The reduction of words
to a bare minimum, or newspeak, disables the citizens from
producing true thoughts of their own that may stray from the
path of Big Brother. In Brave New World the citizens are
not only manipulated into conformed thoughts, but their
behavioral patterns are preconditioned. They are sleep
taught the laws and rules of their society, so as to prevent
them from ever producing thoughts that differed from those
of the government. The children are thought to love the
social status in which they are granted. This creates stability
for the society as the citizens have no motives to move up
the social scale. The inhabitants of Brave New World are
indoctrinated, and brainwashed in their sleep. Another form
of manipulation, yet much less subtle in both novels, was the
formation and distribution of propaganda. In 1984
propaganda was distributed through the use of telescreens in
each room and political pamphle...

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