An individual’s characteristics and development can change by the society they live in. Many times social practices were accepted and perhaps even good, became unacceptable and harmful in the society when time changes. Every society, at any point has some bad things that need to be changed. Behavior of individuals is very much influences by the culture of the society, so we must differentiate between wrong doings of individuals due to evil intentions and cultural pressure. The book “1984” by George Orwell and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley shows how the society had corrupted and changed once thoughts and ideas. Even though the individual knows it is not right.
In the book “1984” by George Orwell shows how the character Winston who wanted to change the way he lived and wanted a privet and a free way of life. Winston even wishes that he could be a prole because the proles were living a better life without police observation then the people in the "Big Brothers" society. He secretly hates the Party and wants to rebel by writing in a diary about his thoughts. Winston knows that one day he will be caught and killed. When Winston was finally caught he had gone to prison, he was tortured and was brainwashed. Winston wanted to escape and rebel “Big Brother” but he couldn’t because of the society he lives in had shaped and developed him to love big brother and believe what they told him which he had before criticized.
In the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley shows how the society made everyone equal even though they weren’t “everyone belongs to everyone else”. It shows that there is no individualism and that it does not excites. The government uses a process by forming modern civilization, by taken away history and education. Everything was made and produced by technology. The character Bernard is really more interested in excelling socially than in defining his individuality. Bernard’s popularity increased after he discovered John, but before that Bernard was lonely, insecure, and isolated. When he returns with John, he uses his popularity to participate in all of the aspects of World State society that he had criticized before.
Another character from “Brave New World” John used ideas from Shakespeare which helped him to understand his own complex emotions and reactions, which help him, realize why he should criticized the World State’s values and John understood his own ideas against the government. But in the end even he failed to change the society and his own way of life, when the World State confronted him of “orgy porgy” which he would never participate in. But the society influenced him to attempt the “orgy porgy” even though he did not want to. Both the characters in the novel resulted of an insanity created by the world around them.
Both “Brave New World” and “1984” show how environment shape’s individual’s growth and development. Individuals are established by the place and culture they live in. The society can change the way individual’s think, and it can also change their ideas to what the society believes. The importance for individuals is the way they feel about their society and how it changes them. Change can be frightening because it could end up being for the worst. But there are time’s when change can be for the best and that is why people fight for it.
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