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Yeah I think as a whole, its working very well, and the world is much more unimaginable than 1984 - so he does have a harder task... but ive came across a few analogies I find tenuous and sprawling- and they kinda stick im my mind a bit - maybe because I find they spoil a very gripping read of a very well realised world. Its probably unfair to compare it to other dystopic novels like BNW and 1984 because we have read the first version of these, translations are often tricky.
Personally I think Huxley takes many more soft sci fi aspects away from the book than orwell - the carrot ( total sexual 'freedom', the lack of privacy, the notion of human beings as cells within an efficient body etc... obviously there is a alot of communism wrapped around all this ) as a means of social control rather than the orwellian stick..
The Biblical connections I dont really get that much either, I think wikipedia has something about it.
Personally I think Huxley takes many more soft sci fi aspects away from the book than orwell - the carrot ( total sexual 'freedom', the lack of privacy, the notion of human beings as cells within an efficient body etc... obviously there is a alot of communism wrapped around all this ) as a means of social control rather than the orwellian stick..
The Biblical connections I dont really get that much either, I think wikipedia has something about it.