SATIRICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF HAPPINESS AND CONTROL IN ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GEORGE ORWELL
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https://doi.org/10.17605/Keywords:
Satire, dystopia, happiness, social control, Huxley, Orwell, power, ideology.Abstract
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of satirical models of happiness and social control in the dystopian works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The novels Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four are examined as two distinct yet conceptually interconnected versions of a critique of modern society. The analysis focuses on how satire is employed to expose the mechanisms of power that shape conceptions of happiness, freedom, and human nature. The study concludes that there is a fundamental difference between Huxley’s model of soft, hedonistic control and Orwell’s model of repressive, traumatic control, despite their shared ethical orientation.
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