Essay Instructions: Title/Centered: Brave New World verses Nineteen Eighty Four. Left hand side: Linda Pedigo (double-spaced)
Professor Jett
English 1A
25 November 2008
Pages numbered on the right; Ex: Pedigo 1, (page 2)-Pedigo 2, etc. Please incorporate the sources listed below with a supporting source from Brave New World or Nineteen Eighty-Four. The essay must include 10-12 secondary sources (including at least three scholarly journals and three scholarly books, which are listed below). Requires a thesis in the last sentence of the opening paragraph, body paragraph including support for thesis, and concluding paragraph including perspective or "spin" on thesis. Include(OUTLINE), In-Text Citation, Direct Quote, Paraphrase, Summary, Source Qualification, Source Introduction, Complete Parenthetical, 1-2 Block Quotes consisting of 4-12 sentences. Claims, Warrants, Works Cited, Rough draft. Each paragraph requires a quote from Brave New World or Nineteen Eighty-Four with a supporting quote from the sources listed below.
SOURCES: Roviello, Anne-Marie."The Hidden Violence of Totalitarianism: The Loss of the Groundwork of the World." Quote:"Totalitarian propaganda does not just lie about the aims nd real actions of totalitarian movements or regimes: it also gives itself the organization required to change the real world and make it 'true' to its assertions, though they be utterly absurd and utterly monstrous." -AND/OR- "The totalitarian lie is a kind of perversion, to the extent that it forces individuals to particiate actively, on the front line, indeed with enthusiasm, in the mendacious destruction of the very requirements of their existence, including when their own lives are at stake."
*Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Revisited. "In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure" (259).
(BLOCK NOTE)*Moyan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky. It is truism that one of the most revealing indexes to the anxieties of our age is the great flood of works like Huxley's Brave New World, and Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four. Appalling in their similarity, they describe nightmare states where men are conditioned to obedience, freedom is eliminated, and individuality crushed; where the past is systematically destroyed and men ae isolated from nature; where science and technology are employed, not to enrich human life, but to maintain the states surveillance and control of its slave citizens" (111).
*Grieder, Peter. In Defense of Totalitarianism Theory as a Toolof Historical Scholarship. "Totalitarianism may therefore be summarised as the concerted but disguised attempt by a state to exercise total control over, coerce, integrate, manipulate, mobilise and seduce its population in thename of an ideology, regardless of the extent to which this was actually achieed in practice."
BLOCK NOTE:*Stein, Maurice. Identity and Anxiety. "Active psychological warfare and mental torture are now accepted concepts in totalitarian countries. A prime result of the political pressure, both overt and unobtrusive, has been cynical re-evaluation of human values. A new progression of specialists has emerged whose task it is not to cure, but to aggravate and manipulate the weaknesses of selected victims so that they might become more easily amendable to influence, and to precribed political idiologies. We may define such plnned enforcement of ideas an mental coercion applied as a political tool as "thought control." It is interesting to know, however, why people reacted so hysterically and dramatically to the first detailed news on brainwashing. Terrible fears were aroused in them: especially the fear of conformity and the fear of the evil eye that can see through the person and magically dig the truth out of him" (506).
*Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution. "Social existence is controlled existence...without some constraint of individual leanings the coordination of action and regularity of conduct which turn a human aggregation into a society could not materialize." AND/OR "The concept of social control brings us to the focus of sociology and its perpetual problem-the relation of the social order and the individual being, the relation of the unit and the whole. Control is simply coterminous with society, and in examining the former we simply describe the latter" (61).
*White, Richard. "George Orwell: Socialism and Utopia. "Socialism is not historically necessary-as Orwell puts it, the triumph of Hitler proved that nothing is historically inevitable-and this absence of necessity means that the success or failure of socialsm must be more closely tied to the moral character and policies of those who support it."
*Varricchio, Mario. "Power of Images/Images of Power in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four." "Both Huxley and Orwell strongly denounce visual conditioning and the political use made of it: in fact, in the dystopic worlds described by the two authors images and screens constitute fundamental means of exercising mental and physical dominance over people. Also, their condemnation implicitly extends to the distorting power of media in non-fictional reality and to their frightening future potential."
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. "When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what You did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference. Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again" (168).
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. "Government by clubs and firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane, it is demonstrably inefficient and in an age of advance techology, inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost" -OR- "A really efficient ntotalitaria state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a plpulation of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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