Function of the Satirical Element in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984 A Study in Dystopian Literature | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 07 October 2025 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2025.430577.2766 | ||
| Author | ||
| هند مسعد احمد رمضان جبريل جبريل* | ||
| كلية الاداب - جامعة المنوفيه | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study paper writes about the satirical elements of the dystopian works of literature Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley and 1984 (1949) by George Orwell. In a bid to criticize the contemporary social, political and technological occurrences with the application of satire, this paper identifies and assesses the devices of satire employed by the two writers in a comparative textual analysis. The work shows two deviations of the different modes of satire in which Huxley and Orwell respectively adopt satire in calling light to the pleasure-imported regimes of control and consumerism and in condemning totalitarian surveillance and the tools of propaganda respectively. In the analysis, it can be seen that the two authors manage to use the tools of satire, irony, exaggeration, linguistic manipulation, and character grotesque to warn about the potential dystopian futures. Its findings assist in realizing the importance of satiric patterns of political and social critique of dystopia literature and the relevance of such writing in the contemporary debates on the issues of technology, government, and social control. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| dystopian literature; satire; Aldous Huxley | ||
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