Alex Utopia/Dystopia

 Looking back at BNW and 1984, it's interesting that two novels that seem so different from each other, are both dystopias, and in some ways similar as well. The two books take the dystopian genre to opposite extremes. Society in BNW is always cheery and happy to the point in which it blinds the people from the reality of what is going on. 1984 is quite the opposite. Society is based on fear, and the worldview is dim and depressing. In both cases, the governments control all aspects of society, such as the 6 topics we've focused on. Even though they sometimes go in the opposite direction, we still see the same dystopic result.  The one comparison that I found the most interesting is between Bernard and Winston. I think it's safe to say that we had similar negative reactions to their personalities. Sure, they had the right idea in mind at the start, but then they spiraled downwards as the novels progressed. Both Bernard and Winston are the only people in their societies that...

 It still seems odd to me that the Party is so obsessed with rehabilitating the minds of enemies of the state before they kill them. It seems rather insecure of them. I guess it is their mentality of power and triumph. They cannot allow themselves to "lose" by letting them die with heretical views. Seems like an awful lot of work for reassuring themselves.  We've seen a lot of ways in which the Party tortures their enemies. Room 101 seems to be the final way of breaking their enemies, psychologically or physically. In Winston's case, it is destroying the emotional attachment to his former rebellious self. His last tie to his old self was through Julia, but with the rats set to kill him, he gives in. He finally has lost all sense of his former self. The Party has succeeded at quelling his foolhardy "revolution."  It seems to me that we will see an ending similar to Brave New World. Just like how the world continued onward after John dies, Winston will be kill...