A dark and gloomy England in a stoner future. A totalitarian regime that controls the media and exercise a strict social control over the population. A tankepoliti who pursues and punishes those who think differently. A strictly sorteringssamfunn with the objective to breed until perfect people.
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This is the main ingredients in the novels “1984” and “Brave new world”. The two classics, written by, respectively, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, is considered pionerverker within the modern dystopian genre, and has inspired books, movies and series such as “The Handmaid’s Tale”, “Black Mirror”, “V for Vendetta” and “Ready Player One”.
Phrases like “big brother is watching you” has long since passed into everyday language, the word “orwelliansk” thrown to brilliance in the debates about surveillance and data security, and he says he was and huxley’s horror scenarios have avfødt hundreds of copies. And with the reality show “Big Brother” borrowed its name from he says he was roman.
That all these elements are to find Rose Macaulays novel “What Not” had therefore not been particularly sensational – had it not been for the fact that it was released 14 years before “Brave new world”, and 30 years before “1984”.
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“What Not” was first published in 1918, but was quickly reclaimed by the fear parts of the text could be libelous against real people. The version that was released a year after, with the relevant pages removed, quickly went in was soon forgotten.
the First hundred years later comes tredjeopplaget. To march next year provides Handheld Pressure out the book in the new edition. This reports The Guardian.
the Book’s action takes place right after the first world war, “when the tumult and skrikingen has died out”, as it is called in the book. The law “the Mental Progress Act” forces all british citizens to undergo tests, where they get a character between A and C. All citizens must also review the “Mind Training” – a form of brainwashing.
the Purpose of the law is simply to prevent the stupid children are born: In Macaulays dystopian England get citizens with low rank only allowed to have children if they marry someone with a higher rank than them even. Those who violate the law, shall be punished with taxes and fees that are so high that most people go to the shallow.
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Then they get the visit from “The Ministry of Brains” – Hjernedirektoratet.
Hjernedirektoratet is the public body responsible for to prevent that there are born stupid children. Book’s hero, Kitty Grammont, is an a-ranked senior in the Hjernedirektoratet.
But when she falls in love with a man that is not tested or rated, begins to unravel. They initiate a discreet romance, but not discreet enough: Opposisjonspressen, determined to crush the Hjernedirektoratet and the totalitarian regime, finds out about the forbidden relationship, and sees the possibility of a scandalous disclosure.
Huxley borrows
Handheld Press calls the novel “a lost classic, a feminist protest against the social engineering, and a suddenly burst in to rage against the pressemanipulering”. They also write on his website that Aldous huxley’s “borrows many of the Macaulays ideas” in the “Brave new world”
In the new preface, led to the pen of seniorforeleser in journalism by Sarah Lonsdale at the Universitity of London, she admits that there is no clear evidence that Huxley actually read the “What Not”. She believes, however, that huxley’s novel is suspiciously similar to the Macaulays.
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A possible explanation may lie in the two authors ‘ circle of acquaintances. Naomi Royde-Smith was editor of the newspaper the Saturday Westminster. Both Huxley and Macaulay was close friends of Royde-Smith, and in 1923 lived Huxley with her in several months.
In the same period was Macaulay fixtures at the home of Royde-Smith, among others, as medkonferansier for her firm litteraturkvelder, which took place every Thursday.
According to Lonsdale, it may have been during this period that Huxley either got read Macaulays novel, or that the two at least discussed the book’s themes.
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In huxley’s novel are ranked citizens on a scale from “Apha double-plus” to “Epsilon minus”, after the Greek alphabet. Lonsdale believes this system is strikingly similar to the ranking system in the “What Not”. And the similarities don’t stop there:
– Hjernevaskingen we read about in “Brave new world” also seems to be taken directly from the “Mind Training”program in the “What Not”, that all the citizens of the Macaulays England is forced to undergo, printer Lonsdale.
It is not only Huxley which may have been inspired by Macaulay. Longdale believes that Hjernedirektoratet, a heavy bureaucracy with a slogan-driven PR strategy, strongly reminiscent of “The Ministry of Truth” – the ministry of truth – that we encounter in he says he was “1984”.
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According to The Guardian, started editor Katie MacDonald Handheld Pressure to bring the forgotten titles back to the public. The “What Not” was at the top of the list her, but to find a copy of the script with the censored pages, proved to be a daunting task.
the Sides is about an editor in a tabloid newspaper, who tries to blackmail Hjernedirektoratet. They were removed because of suspicions that the editor was based on a real person. Macaulay was a noted satirist in his own time, something that made her unpopular among a lot of people with power.
A copy was finally found in the library of the author and litteraturviter John Clute.
Copy had previously belonged to Michael Sadclair – the publisher who had initially censored the book.
I include this material in the new edition because it is what Macaulay had desired. It gjenreiser the integrity of the original novel, ” says Macdonald of The Guardian.
Rose Macauley is, according to The Telegraph, the author of 23 novels and 13 other publications, including books of poetry, essaysamlinger and travelogues. Her most famous work is “The Towers of Trebizond”, published in 1856, just two years before her death. New year’s eve 1957, she was appointed as the “Lady Commandor of the Order of The British Empire” – the equivalent of being knighted.
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