Discuss the way the writer's convey the major themes in the novels "!984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is more relevant today than George Orwell's 1984. Although both totalitarian societies are based on plausible premises, the Utopia depicted in Brave New World still has a chance of appearing today, whilst the Big Brother-dominated society created by Orwell, being based to some extent on the totalitarian societies that existed at the time of the book's inception, is simply obsolete. Both novels have many similarities and differences in their systems of …

…of telescreens and hidden microphones across the city, the Party is able to monitor its members almost all of the time. Additionally, the Party employs complicated mechanisms (1984 was written in the era before computers) to exert large-scale control on economic production and sources of information, and fearsome machinery to inflict torture upon those it deems enemies. 1984 reveals that technology, which is generally perceived as working toward moral good, can also facilitate the most diabolical evil.