Brave New World Part 1

How have they created equality or conformity? How have they reduced conflict, specifically in regards to religion, relationships, and individual rights? How have they created or forced happiness/conformity? Make a claim about this society as either a utopia or a dystopia based the rest of your blog entry.


In "Brave New World" the society has created equality in several different ways. One of those ways is by the Bokanovsky Process. This process includes shocking an egg so that it produces ninety-six identical human beings. This way, they can have more people doing the same exact job at identical machines. They have reduced conflict by placing each fetus in a certain caste. Once they are in this caste, they are practically brainwashed to believe that their caste is the only one that they would want to live in. They are given reasons as to why they would want to be in their caste so that they aren't jealous of any other caste. This society appears to be a utopia on the surface because it appears that their systems of living are working perfectly fine and the citizens seem to be under control. However, it has the potential to become a dystopia based on the fact that they have complete control over everybody, which could eventually be the cause for rebellions to occur.

1984 Journal Part 3

Has Big Brother won? Why/Why not? Propose a way that the One State can be brought down. What do you think happens to Winston Smith at the end of the novel? Support your answer with analysis of specific quotes from the text.

• I think that Big Brother has succeeded in overcoming Winston's rebellion against the Party because Winston no longer feels the urge to think rebellious thoughts or try to deceive the Party. At the end, Winston finally realized that "he loved Big Brother." This was the goal that O'Brien said they were trying to reach. They would make Winston love Big Brother, but they would kill him anyway.
• The One State can be brought down by people refusing to believe the Party. Everyone in this society acts so dependent on Big Brother and they all act as if they cannot think for themselves, which they don't. If people bagan to be more independent, then they would realize how horrible they are being treated by the Party and they would start to take action.
• At the end of the novel, I think that Winston had been released from his torturing in the Ministry of Love for learning how to control his rebellious thoughts. He had been allowed to continue his life normally because he could be trusted enough. However, he wasn't going to be ignored completely. It was inevitable that he was going to be killed. O'Brien had told him that "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them." Their goal was to make Winston see how he was wrong, but they would still have to terminate him regardless, because he had once intended to overthrow the Party. They decided to kill him at the end of the novel because he had finally realized that he loved Big Brother.