1984

hat there is a struggle, he is going to be just what the planner thinks he is," (Bartholomae & Petrosky, 577). If what Percy says is true, then it is also true that Winston (consumer) isn't what the Party (planner) thinks he is because Winston is in a struggle for himself; he is struggling to find out what the past was really like, not what the Party says happened because he knows it could be a lie. There was a point when he asked an old man to explain what the past had been like, "He would go into the pub, he would scrape acquaintance with that old man and question him: "Tell me about your life when you were a boy. What was it like in those days? Were things better than they are now, or were they worse?"" (Orwell, 74). Yet this attempt to find his own truth was unsuccessful because the old man was too senile to remember anything important; "The old man's memory was nothing but a rubbish heap of details," (Orwell, 78). Bernard Marx, the main character of Brave New World is struggling against a government creates everyone to be the same, almost like clones, yet Bernard acts differently then everybody and he doesn't know why he likes to be that way; "They say he doesn't like obstacle golf...And then he spends most of his time by himself - alone. There was horror in Fanny's voice"(Huxley, 44). Even though Bernard is different, he is still what the planner thinks he is because although he is different he is not a conscientious objector, has not knowingly against his government. The Germans (the German youth more specifically) were struggling against the control of Hitler's words; "The German people were bombarded from every direction with messages about the goodness, wisdom, and power of the Fuhrer"(Stewart, 58). Although not everyone in Nazi Germany was what Hitler thought they were, there was still plenty of other how were such as the Hitler Youth who did everything in the name of Hitler; "Their bodies, their mind...

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