Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2018

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there is no escape for him. The World State has eventually broken him, reinforcing the overwhelming success of their indoctrination processes.

Conclusion The attempts by the totalitarian governments in Brave New World and 1984 to control things as intimate as unions in sex and marriage, powerfully demonstrate the frightening extent of their control. As human beings are primarily driven by a need for emotional intimacy, a government’s desire to remove this impulse is, in essence, an attempt to remove what it means to be human. Huxley and Orwell use their respective representation of sexual relationships and marriage to criticize governments who oppress and dehumanize their citizens. While the totalitarian governments witnessed by the authors in their lifetimes did not achieve the degree of control the governments in Brave New World and 1984 achieved, Huxley and Orwell still want the reader to fully appreciate the sinister nature of these types of government.

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