make their society work. In Brave New World, the only part of history known to the average person was the story of John Ford, and how he designed the assembly line. Mustapha Mond allowed this part of history to be known as it was related to mass production and consumption, staples of the Brave New World society. The calendar in the Brave New World society was also based on the year A.F. (After Ford). No historical books were allowed either, because of the chance that it might spark some interest in the past, or in the future, creating ideas and ruining the society. In 1984, the Party deletes the true history, and builds a fraudulent history to make their society succeed. " The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." (1984, pg. 178)The manipulation of history is done in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth. They rewrite newspaper articles to change history into what would benefit themselves, or make themselves look moral. History had to be censored in these two cultures because of a few important reasons. To begin, people needed to think that they were living in the happiest, most abundant time in history. "Day and night the telescreens bruised your earswith statistics proving that people today had morefood, more clothes, better houses, more recreations- that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, more intelligent, better educated than the people of fifty years ago."(1984, pg. 146)They must believe that this is the best period of time that anyone has ever lived in, and that there is no other way to exist in the world. They must give credence to the fact that they are being treated very well by the leaders, and that they are happy in life. They also must not believe that an individual has ever taken personal initiative in a society, and expressed new ideas, or tries to change something, going against the government. If this happened the...
