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Manipulative Societies

wards death was also deteriorated in Brave New World, so people would not show anxiety if one of their friends died. "What are these filthy brats doing here?It's disgraceful.""Disgraceful? But what do you mean? They're being death conditioned." (Brave New World, pg. 208)They would just continue on living in the society, as existing happily and productively was their purpose. In 1984, emotions about occurrences like death was frowned upon as well. Anyone who was made a fatality by the Party was deleted from history, so the Party would have no one accusing them. They wanted people to dwell in society with a devotion to the Party, performing their roles without a thought of opinion. The slogans of the two societies also help to brainwash the citizens of the societies. In Brave New World, the World State slogan 'Community, Identity, Stability' obliterates any ideas of freedom, or individualism. The people of the society know that to be a model citizen that motto must be exercised, so they follow it accordingly. It goes without thinking to be slave of the society, because the motto says it should be so. The World State slogan in 1984, ' War is peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength' does not make sense. It is designed not to make sense so that once the people in that society accept it, they will surrender to the Party, and allow the Party full control over their lives. This is an example of doublethink, a manipulation of the mind used by the Party. By installing doublethink in the minds of their citizens, the people of Oceania were restricted to getting the truth only from the Party. This allowed the party to do whatever they needed to do to keep the society in order. Censorship was used by the leaders of the societies to manipulate the people. In Brave New World, there wasn't any literature that was uncensored. Mustapha Mond, leader of the society, would not allow this kind of reading in...

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