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1851387 No.1851387 [Reply] [Original]

What dystopian novel would /lit/ recommend to compare and contrast with 1984?

>> No.1851394

Fahrenheit 451?

>> No.1851398

Brave New World, there was a nice simple cartoon about it somewhere

>> No.1851400

the man in the high castle is fun. properly more alternative reality but the setting is dystopian.

>> No.1851403
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>>1851398

>> No.1851424

>>1851387

I've heard a comparison between 1984 and Brave New World before that I thought was enlightening.

In a nut shell it says that in 1984 humanity is enslaved by what we hate and in Brave New World we are enslaved by what we love.

>> No.1851427

>>1851403
lol and there it is

>> No.1851436

>>1851403
I'd call it perfection if the cartoon ended with something like this:

>We are living one of these scenarios. Guess which one it is.

>> No.1851441

>>1851436
I'd say that it doesn't require one. Any sane person can come to their own conclusion.

>> No.1851458

>>1851441
It's quite obvious that BNW is much, much more relevant to our time than 1984. In fact, if Huxley wrote his novel some twenty years after later, it would've been more of a satire than a dystopian novel as normally understood. Actually, it was quite so even back in the thirties.

>> No.1851461

>>1851458
Maybe from your perspective, you rich faggot.

>> No.1851466

>>1851461
Am I a rich faggot if I refuse to be a leftist degenerate?

>> No.1851469

>>1851466
No, you're a rich faggot because you have greater access to resources, retard.

>> No.1851477

>>1851469
Greater than whom? Alhamdulillah, I don't lack anything, or so I would like to think, but I wouldn't call myself rich, not in the vastly accepted sense.

>> No.1851482

>>1851477
Than those whose experiences BNW is not much, much more relevant to.

>> No.1851497

Is it good that i read both those novels at 14?
(I'm 19 now)

>> No.1851498

>>1851387

Kimen by Vesaas

>> No.1851500

Closest country to 1984 = North Korea
People lied to through endless propaganda, controlled ruthlessly, anyone outside normal is disposed of etc.
Closest countries to BNW = America and other rich countries where the public are distracted by the trivial etc.

>> No.1851511
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>>1851500
>Closest countries to BNW
>America

Wrong.
>Closest countries to BNW
>Sweden

Correct.

>> No.1851516

>>1851511
Yes but whilst Sweden is rich, the american public is the one that is worst effected by the things it loves, such as much higher obesity

>> No.1851518

>>1851516
Naw man. Just Swedes don't like drinking lard.