John Orwell s A Brave New World And Its Utopian Run On...

Utopia is one of the many compound words that have been borrowed from another language. First used by Sir Thomas Moore in his book entitled Utopia it is a pun. Stemming from the Greek ou meaning no, eu meaning good and topos meaning place. The work Utopia take on three different meanings, good place, no place, and no good place. To Sir Moore the idea of a utopia was impossible to have. For him it was a no good place, for while perfect to the inhabitants was inherently corrupt in some manner and was not a good place. Two other authors took this idea of utopia and spun on end in two completely different fashions. Aldous Huxley in his book A Brave New World and its Utopian run on pleasure contrasts starkly with George Orwell s†¦show more content†¦He began taking on different writing jobs where he eventually became a producer for the British Broadcast Channel. He began interviewing different large literary figure, but soon found as he was working near the Time of the Second W orld War that he was being used as propaganda and he quit. Towards the end of his life He wrote his greatest legacy, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Aldous Huxley who wrote under no pseudonym lived different life to that of Orwell. He was born into a life of literature, with a mother who was a schoolteacher and a father who was a writer. He also grew up around scientists including his grandfather who was a well known conservationalist ,and two brothers who would become biologists. His youth and young adulthood were full of strife. At age fourteen he lost his mother. He would also lose his sight at age 27 which destroyed his chances of becoming a scientist as he had hoped. Unlike Orwell, Huxley wrote his crowning achievement, A Brave New World, in the middle of his life and not toward the end. To understand the authors books and their power of inference one needs to take a look at the time in which the men lived. Both lived through the Spanish Civil War and the rise of dictatorships, as well as the introduction of the atomic bomb to the world. They also lived through the industrial boom and started to see technology be developed in such a short amount of time. What forces a difference between the idea express in