dangers of totalitarian government theme

Question 1

like 1984

Answer 1

this novel depicts a dystopia that controls the behaviors and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power

Question 2

1984 control

Answer 2

is maintained by constant government surveillance, secret police and torture

BNW is maintained through technological intervention that start before birth and last until death

Question 3

1984 maintain power

Answer 3

through force and intimidation

however, the government in BNW retains control by making its citizens happy and superficially fulfilled that they don’t care about their personal freedom

Question 4

BNW

Answer 4

argues that the most powerful totalitarian state would be one that doesn’t overwhelm and frighten its citizens, but instead manages to convince its citizens to love their slavery

Question 5

BNW social control

Answer 5

“all conditioning arms at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny”

“all these suggestions are our suggestions… suggestions from the State”

Question 6

Huxley satirises

Answer 6

both the religiously focused savage reservation and the World State, with its lack of religion

Question 7

1984

Answer 7

is a horrific prediction of our future, Huxley actually approved of the ideas in BNW

Question 8

utopian elements

Answer 8

beautiful inhabitants, free from disease and worries

Question 9

unlike 1984

Answer 9

some of the biggest threats in BNW don’t come from totalitarian dictators but from the bourgeois consumer