![]() ![]() However, this is true that some modern governments indeed follow the dystopian rules and create totalitarian regimes, which choke human freedoms on the root. While it is true that the government spies on their citizens to some extent, the possibility of America becoming the next Oceania is rather dim. Both authors were obsessed with the theme of a totalitarian regime and complete governmental control over citizens (Atchison and Shames, 2019). While in the case of Orwell, this was about nuclear weapons that posed an immense threat to modern society, in the grim scenario of Huxley, the danger grew within chemical weapons. Both authors saw the danger in the progressive technologies and ‘new’ thinking that came after wars. ![]()
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