Religija totalitarnog društva u romanima Vrli novi svet Oldusa Hakslija i 1984 Džordža Orvela

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to determine the ways in which religion is manifested in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World and George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The starting point for organizing any to- talitarian society is a united public which will not resist or question the current political system. Even though they are exceedingly different in terms of setting, both of the novels include the same representation of reli- gion. We may discern that God has been replaced by the leader of the State, as well as many ritual gatherings

aimed at strengthening the Law and providing a higher level of satisfaction for the citizens. Totalitarianism is thus seen as a new type of religion – not the destruction and removal of religion, but its replacement. The author hypothesizes that religion in a dystopian society has not disappeared, but rather changed its form. We shall attempt to show that totalitarian ideology in fact becomes religion. By searching for various similarities and differences between Huxley’s World State and Orwell’s Oceania, the author shall represent the mode of functioning of these totalitarian states with the aim of proving the existence of religion within them.