The philosopher George Santayana once said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The definition of "condemned" means "sentenced to punishment". Santayana warns mankind that to forget the past sentences us to repeat it over and over again. It means that man is un...

Throughout life people make time to do "everything except for the things worth doing" (93). George Bowling in George Orwell's Coming Up for Air realizes he must spend more of his life doing what he enjoys, but his wife, Hilda, prevents him from ever getting enough "air." George needs escap...

1984 vs. Animal Farm 1984, by George Orwell, is a very powerful drama which involves man and totalitarian society. It is a story of a lonely rebel whose only valuable is his mind and who later conspires with another in an attempt to separate from their increasingly dominant hate-infested society....

The Essentiality of Freedom There are many types of freedom in modern societies that are taken for granted. A number of famous authors have written novels based on the subject of freedom. In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984 the authors share many of the same cri...

Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. In the beginning of this book, we see the Director of World Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and pre-sorted to determine which class level they wi...