In the contemporary world many people feel as if they are trapped by moral and emotional obligations to their family and religion; they would happily live the life they wanted if not for the quilt that came with disappointing ones parents or God. A perfect example of this is would be family oriented holidays, a large portion of society do not enjoy going to see family members during the holidays but do it anyway due to the crushing guilt they would if they did not. In the same vein, the Director notes how feelings get in the way of stability and cause a person to become weak, getting in the way of ones work and enjoying life in general. This is especially so in business in which business and personal life are to be kept separate, for mixing the will cause one to feels feelings to get in the way of making money. Additionally, in the modern world people are expected to be rigid and professional, not giving way to their emotions. However, due to the fact that one never has complete control over their emotions, they are often seen a nuisance that gets in the way of work and completing ones true …show more content…
In the beginning of the book,in which Winston begins to question the Party and its systems, he thinks over the purpose of families, saying, “ The aim of the party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not control. Its real undeclared purpose as to remove all pleasure from the sexual act..party members had to be approved by the committee…permission was always refused if the couple gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another” (Orwell 65). 1984 highlights the aversion of feelings in the way that families are set up, the Party wants to keep its people from forming strong feelings that they can not control, thus they put them in marriages in which both people have no feelings for the other. This hatred of feelings translates into todays world in which people see emotions as inconveniences that gets in the way of completing important tasks or fulfilling their true intentions in a way similar to the Party does, as seen in the workplace and the general accomplishment of goals. With this in mind, Brave New World is more pertinent to the contemporary world as it reflects the apathetic attitudes of today by bluntly presenting such sentiments to the reader without watered down euphemisms, ultimately illustrating the self centered nature of