{"id":23727,"date":"2017-04-22T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23727"},"modified":"2017-04-22T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:21:23","slug":"prisons-of-pleasure-or-pain-huxleys-brave-new-world-vs-orwells-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23727","title":{"rendered":"Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley\u2019s \u201cBrave New World\u201d vs. Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prisons<\/p>\n

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Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley\u2019s \u201cBrave New World\u201d vs. Orwell\u2019s\u00a0\u201c1984<\/a>\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Definition of UTOPIA <\/em><\/p>\n

1: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place<\/em><\/p>\n

2: a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions<\/em><\/p>\n

3:\u00a0\u00a0 an impractical scheme for social improvement<\/em><\/p>\n

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Definition of DYSTOPIA <\/em><\/p>\n

1: an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives<\/em><\/p>\n

2: literature: anti-utopia <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/em>Merriam-Webster.com<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>Many Americans today would quite possibly consider Aldous Huxley\u2019s \u201cBrave New World\u201d<\/strong><\/a> to be a utopia of sorts with its limitless drugs, guilt-free sex, perpetual entertainment and a genetically engineered society designed for maximum economic efficiency and social harmony. Conversely, most free people today would view Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d<\/strong><\/a> as a dystopian nightmare, and shudder to contemplate the terrifying existence under the iron fist of \u201cBig Brother\u201d;<\/em> the ubiquitous figurehead of a perfectly totalitarian government.<\/p>\n

Although both men were of British descent, Huxley was nine years older than Orwell and published Brave New World in 1932, seventeen years before 1984 was released in 1949. Both books are widely considered classics and are included in the Modern Library\u2019s top ten great novels<\/strong><\/a> of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

<\/u>Brave New World<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aldous Huxley was born to academic parents and he was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, a famous biologist and an enthusiastic proponent of Darwin\u2019s Theory of Evolution who was known as \u201cDarwin\u2019s Bulldog\u201d. Huxley\u2019s own father had a well-equipped botanical laboratory where young Aldous began his education. Given the Huxley family\u2019s appreciation for science, it makes perfect sense that Brave New World began in what is called the \u201cCentral London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre<\/em>\u201d where human beings are artificially grown and genetically predestined into five societal castes consisting of: Alpha<\/em>, Beta<\/em>, Gamma<\/em>, Delta<\/em> and Epsilon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Initially, the story centers on Bernard Marx, who is a slightly genetically flawed Alpha Plus psychologist with an inferiority complex due to his short stature.<\/p>\n

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Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley\u2019s \u201cBrave New World\u201d vs. Orwell\u2019s\u00a0\u201c1984\u201d Definition of UTOPIA 1: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place 2: a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions 3:\u00a0\u00a0 an impractical scheme for social improvement \u00a0 Definition of DYSTOPIA 1: an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1212,10061,10845,1211],"class_list":["post-23727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-brave-new-world","tag-george-orwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23729,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}