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Brave New World
1984
Our World
Double Jeopardy
100
The word bunk suggests disbelief in the idea that it is attached to. By ingraining this into the minds of millions of people, Controllers are able to assert that only the present matters and this effectively cuts off independent analysis of the past or any possible futures.
What is the significance of "that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk"(Huxley 34)?
100
The word necessary implies an unthinking and obvious decision. It shows that the people could not imagine Big Brother ever being wrong, so they tell themselves a history of lies and make it their new reality.
"It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened" (Orwell 38) implies what?
100
Knowledge of the past allows humanity to check and balance itself and helps to keep everyone honest.
"Greg Abbott brags of successfully prosecuting 50 cases of election fraud. But the list his office sent me included only three cases in six years of someone being charged with voter impersonation" (Chapman 2nd column, Section 1, p23, Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2014) shows what about records of the past?
200
The instant need to forget a traumatic experience is normal in both our culture and Brave New Worlds'. The difference is exhibited when our culture tries to document it to learn, while theirs continues their drug induced fantasy.
"Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday" (Huxley 140) demonstrates what about their society?
200
A main tenant of how the Party controls the population, 80% of the people are kept low class. So consumed by their struggle for survival, they have no time to think about the past and see how much better their life could be.
"an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything" (Orwell 201) describes what about the Party?
200
Accurate knowledge of the past allows humans to sort out the weak and ineffective leaders among our ruling class, and replace them as necessary.
"In the months before the attacks on September 11, 2012, the IC provided ample strategic warning that the security situation in eastern Libya was deteriorating and that U.S. facilities and personnel were at risk in Benghazi" (Finding No 1 of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) tells us what about Secretary Clinton's failure to provide security for the Benghazi station?
300
This quote reveals how the world leaders are afraid of any discovery that may provoke free thought and upset one group or another.
"even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy" (Huxley 225) exemplifies what about the Controllers of "Brave New World"?
300
Without lessons learned from the past, people with more knowledge find it easy to control others without access to that same knowledge. The unfortunate others have no reference and, thus, no way of arguing for their own views.
"men are indefinitely malleable" (Orwell 269) is true in what sense?
300
"Suppose" brings a connotation of disbelief and mockery by the author to this quote. The ability to do outside research and form contesting theories allows humanity as a whole to see who has learned from the mistakes of the past and who is willing to repeat them.
"If the Holocaust took place-and let's suppose that it did"(Ahmadinejad speech on Sept 18-2009) points to what kind of leader?
400
The government of "Brave New World" uses drugs and suppression of thought to keep the people too preoccupied to see the faults of their system. Being blinded to the past, their vision of the future is clouded.
How do the World Controllers stay in power?
400
The government of 1984 keeps control of its people by letting out knowledge of the truth of anything to only a select few. Everyone else has only pieces of the puzzle, or none at all. A society based on false reality cannot understand its present or prepare for its future.
What is the Party's way of keeping control?
400
Politicians try to create their own interpretation of the past in the minds of the people in order to make themselves look better. People must do research into all details and factors of an issue to find out who is actually the best candidate and worthy of their future support.
How does our political system discourage thoughtful analysis of an issue?
500
If the population is allowed to stagnate and worry only about their day to day issues, it will become a reactive society and will eventually collapse.
What is a warning for "Brave New World"?
500
If even one person in the upper class becomes upset with the system, he or she would have the knowledge to start a revolution among the lower class. Destruction of the Party would be inevitable.
What is a warning for "1984"?
500
If the people do not take it upon themselves to search for answers and demand the truth of the issues, then our society will fall to greed and corruption.
What is a warning for our world?
500
Hiding the truth in a web of lies will eventually be discovered and punished.
What is a universal warning?