Governments- Passed and Present

In our next essay I think it would be cool to write about a prompt that has to do with analyzing governments and how in Brave New World the government controls the people and how that compares to history as well as other texts.  I would discuss how the government controls everyone by making them happy.  They mind warp them to be satisfied with what their assigned job is.  I would refer to Sir Ken Robinson’s youtube video, describing how the government gives them Soma to concentrate and be happy, he referred to todays world and how we give our children drugs to focus or not be depress, ext. 

            I  would also bring in text about George Orwell’s 1984, and how he envisioned a future controlled by a government.  I would talk about their similarities and how both governments control the way people think as well as having a lower class (prole- 1984, Savages- Brave New World).  I would also talk about their differences, for example how 1984 uses misery and fear, such as the fear of war, to control the people. Brave New World on the other hand uses happiness to control the people. 

            I would also bring in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which describes the one day in the life of a Russian prison.  I would tie in how this refers to a real life government.  I would discuss how the government in this novel also tried to control its people, and they did it by taking away people from society and punishing them or killing them.  I would talk about how this could lead up to the future and how it is similar to how in Brave New World they send people they are different from norm to islands where they can live their life out in freedom.  Overall I think it would be a fun essay to write.