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KMID : 0385320080190020139
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2008 Volume.19 No. 2 p.139 ~ p.149
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Dystopia of Orwell and Huxley：Focusing on 1984 and Brave New World
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are famous English writers of the 20th century. They depicted the future world as a kind of dystopia in their fiction writings “1984” and “Brave New World.” Thus, there have been many disputes over their works. In my opinion, their fictional dystopia reveals their own transitional spaces with fantasies. They seemed to regard this world as a dystopia due to their loss of love objects. Orwell and Huxley rebelled against their paternal rulings and longed for maternal loves, but they were frustrated in their real lives. Therefore, they denied the helpless, hopeless reality given to them, and replaced it with a dramatized dystopia with serious disillusionment. Orwell’s dystopia reveals his ideological confusion and pessimism, while Huxley’s dystopia reveals his cynical but ironical optimism due to his life-long visual handicap and mysticism. Double-pessimism, while Huxley’s dystopia reveals his cynical but ironical optimism due to his life-long visual handicap and mysticism. Double-thought refers to Orwell’s own confusion, and Soma use represents Huxley’s naive escapism. I appreciate that they were not idealists, but only iconoclasts. Although they were successful in their creative works, they failed in their love relationships. Their fictional dystopias seem to be the results of compromise formation between their unconscious fantasies and conscious disillusions.
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KEYWORD
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Dystopia, Orwell, Huxley, Loss, Disillusion
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