By Katharine Burdekin
Released in 1937, twelve years earlier than Orwell's "1984," this novel initiatives a wholly male-controlled fascist global that has eradicated girls as we all know them. they're breeders, stored as farm animals, whereas males during this post-Hitlerian international are embittered automatons, terrified of all emotions, having abolished all background, schooling, creativity, books, and artwork. now not even the reminiscence of tradition is still. The plot facilities on a "misfit" who asks, as readers needs to, "How may possibly this have happenned?" Ann J. Lane calls the radical a "brilliant, chilling dystopia."
"This is a strong, haunting imaginative and prescient of the internal and outer worlds of male violence." - Blanche Wiesen cook dinner, writer of "Eleanor Roosevelt: quantity One, 1884-1933"
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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.
Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.
Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.