How has 1984 and your related text prompted you to reevaluate your understanding of binary truth? In demonstrating the fragility of absolute truth manifested through both self and environment, George Onwell’s (1949) political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Aldous Huxley's (1932) satirical science-fiction novel Brave New World (New World) prompts the reader to consider the degenerative impacts of totalitarianism through the extortion of ineonsistent truths, Influenced by the undertones of fascism present within the British government following World War I, Orwell depicts the denial of preordained understandings of society due to the emergence of an encompassing paranoia catalysing, humanity to become vehicles of alienation and distrust. Huxley parallels this concept, mirroring the cxistentialistic notion of a moral void and misanthropy duc to the turbulence and chaos of the Second World War. In depicting the removal of absolute truth, exploration of the corruption in cognitive integrity, the bridging of distinct individual and collective experiences and the discontinuity of historical truth highlights the significance of retaining autonomous behaviour. Thus, through evaluating the existence of objectivity, depictions of the anomalous nature of humanity can observed The erosion of societal truth through language underscores the nuanced nature of human behaviour, thus highlighting the spectrum of human cognition and perceived truth, Such is delineated in 1984, in which portrayals of doctrines that fundamentally oppose societal conventions proffer the perversion of truth as a ‘manipulative tool to gain totalitarian control rather than a depiction of objective reality. Influenced by his occupation within the Spanish War and the language surrounding propaganda, Orwell depicts the influence of language in shaping personal realities. In extorting language through the concept of Newspeak, Orwell establishes a society fundamentally antithetical to the contextual world, thus, elucidating the post-modern understanding of an ephemeral reality. Through such depictions as seen in “un-good’, Orwell highlights the euphemising of human emotion as being catalysed by a restriction in one’s ability to express themselves succinctly and thus, is foundational to the manifestation of language. In this context, the party is able to further deconstruct depictions of dichotomous truth through the slogans “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength,” where the antithetical meaning symbolises the Auctuating nature of reality, propounded through the lens of intellectual control. Through the totalitarian control of language, the Party renders contrasting ideals identical and equivalent, thus destroying preconceptions surrounding expression and cognition. The concept of language as a foundational aspect, in determining the understanding of binary truth is extended within New World, whereby the ironic contrast between the prose of John the savage and Lenina’s hypnopaedia instilled maxims highlight the exertion of language in determining mental dissonance as influenced by Huxleys interactions with the rise in blind patriotism during the interwar periods. Exemplified in ‘For Ford’s sake John, talk sense’, the notion of language constructing a societal reality that only reflects the dictorial institutes of the World State propounds the malleability of our perceived reality. Here, the notion of understanding truth through the lens of language is exemplified in ‘but these suggestions are our suggestions’, where the disposition of mankind encapsulated in the italicized collective pronoun ‘our’ shows the linguistic foundation from which the constitutions of an individuals mind is built upon. Thus through the manipulation of language to challenge societal truths, both authors extort the existence of binary truth to be based only upon perceived human cognition,In removing the assumed distinction between individual and collective, individuals become susceptible to the degradation of moral integrity, thus challenging preordained notions of autonomy. Influenced by the fascist characteristics of ‘socialism’ present within Stalin’s government, Orwell warns of the dangers of collectivism, and removal of personal unity. Manifested within the 1984 through ‘Big Brother’, the figurehead created by the party is @ psychological amalgamation of an emerging third conscious between both individual and collective, thus bridging the gap in the party's control. Proffered in the encompassing nature of ‘Big Brother’, its symbolic appearance allows its influence to be viewed through an intrapersonal lens, whereby through accepting its presence results in conformity to the party, Here, through the utilisation of “telescreens’, the Party can effectively insert communal constitution within the intimacy of individuals lives, thus removing autonomous behaviour. Exemplified in the contrast in ‘not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in’ ‘whereby institutions are able to prey upon the cathartic release of emotion as instigating mob mentality further constitutes the blurring of individual cognition and collective desire, Further, the estrangement and removal of the individual and the desire to exist within the collective is seen in the ironie statement ‘Your worst enemy...was your own nervous system’ whereby the alienation of the human body emphasises the unnatural disconnection felt with one’s own humanity, prompted by the party's authority to further remove the disparity between the individual and the collective. Within New World, the removal of individual experiences is depicted in ‘Everybody belongs everybody to else” , whereby the parallelism infantilises and reduces the impulse for individual solidarity, resulting in the anomalous desire to assume the collective. However, Huxley approaches the realm of totalitarian control differently to Orwell as he proffers the isolation of oneself as the collective, thus challenging the notion of individuality as differentiable from the collective. Portrayed in the metaphorical Ford, we are twelve; oh make us one, Like drops within the Social River ‘Oh, make us now together run As swifily as thy shining Flivver Whereby the ‘social river’ represents the conditioned loss of individuality, alongside the rhyme structure pertaining to the notion of societal harmony. Thus,1984 and New World question the existing difference between the individual and the collective, alluding to the emergence of new socictal truths, as catalysed by totalitarian control Depictions of an ahistorical society facilitated through archival manipulation allude to the destruction of the binary truth through the perpetuation of a singular narrative, thus catalysing the degradation of reality Expounded within the palimpsestic nature of history and the proliferation of ever simulated past as inspired by the prevalence of patriotic ideals and a disregard for historical fact, Orwell contrasts the existence of the private archive with the public. Through the satire in the symbolic ‘Ministry of Truth’, totalitarian control is extorted with dispositioning the individual within a society whereby the assertion of| one’s capacity to make judgement is incompetent due to a lack of historical basis from which they candraw conclusions from. Characterised in Winston’s desire to seck out the past, through the symbolism of the children’s history textbook, Orwell comments on the comparative nature from which human cognition is based upon, whereby distinction of the present is constructed solely from prior interactions with the past. Here, the continuity of the Party’s power is seen in anaphora ‘Who controls the past... controls the future: who controls the present controls the past, whereby repetition emphasizes the pervasiveness in simulating a rigid, false history. Further, the paradoxical phrase ‘History has stopped” comnotes to the removal of truth, whereby all basis of human existence is under the control of the party, thus removing the ‘altemative’ perspective provided through interactions with the past. It is through this that Orwell is able to depict the removal of binary truth or the reducing of historical understanding as detrimental to the human psyche. This concept is mirrored and explored within New World, whereby the colloquial “History is bunk’ highlights the removal of archival analysis within a society characterized by no individual agenda. Here, the comotation of ‘bunk’ alludes to the dismissal of historical significance, as, reflected in a society accepting universal truths. Such lack of inquiry underscores the importance of individual mental facilities when faced with the removal of all realities that oppose the perpetuated one The satire of the Fordian utopia is built upon such totality in the face of historical truth, deliberately impoverishing human nature when constrasted with the hedonism of the provided human experiei Both Orwell and Huxley coerce the manipulation of binary truth encompassed within all truths through the tampering and disconnection with history as fundamentally degrading within humanity’s reality. Thus, in demonstrating the destruction and manipulative nature of binary truth within totalitarian societies, Orwell and Huxley extort the significance of maintaining a multifaceted perspective of reality in order to uphold individualism and autonomous cognition. Through the extortion of language in shaping reality, reducing distinctions between individual and collective and the removal of historical interactions, both authors provide the spectrum to which humanity exists as well as the reduction of autnomony and independent cognition,