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hey /lit/, i just got "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. i have already read George Orwell's "1984". which would you prefer and what are the best/worst similarities between them?

>> No.3060886

keekreeka is the best

>> No.3060910
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3060910

pic related

>> No.3060915

>>3060910
My reading teacher showed me that after i turned in my report on 1984.

>> No.3060928

>>3060910
Picture is wrong. Orwell was also right.

>> No.3060931

>>3060928
>Orwell was also right.

Sure, just not outside of North Korea.

Doesn't mean his books aren't good...

>> No.3060934

>>3060882
neither.

read 'We', first.

>> No.3060935

>>3060928
The idea that it's either/or and that the two authors didn't simply describe based on the current countries of their time, hence the resemblance less than a century later to current countries now, is what boggles me.

>> No.3060938

>>3060931
>war on terror
>Patriot Act
>drone strikes
>surveillance culture
>permanent war

they were both spot-on, it's just that Huxley is happening now while Orwell is going to escalate later

>> No.3060946

>>3060935
>current policies of their time... current policies now
Fixed for accuracy.

>> No.3060947

>>3060931
>"A few have become acquainted with Orwell's 1984; because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to posses, it is known to certain members of the Inner Party. Orwell fascinates them through his insights into details they know well; and through his use of Swiftian satire. Such a form of writing is forbidden by the New Faith because allegory, by nature manifold in meaning, would trespass beyond the prescriptions of socialist realism and the demands of the censor. Even those who know Orwell only by hearsay are amazed that a writer who never lived in Russia should have so keen a perception into its life."
- Czeslaw Milosz, barely a year after Orwell died

>> No.3060961

>reading teacher
u wot m8