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Babbitt

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by Sinclair Lewis

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Could Babbitt be seen as a precursor to 1984 or Brave New World?
Miles Zarathustra I would see it more as a precursor to "WE" by Zamyatin, which was a precursor to 1984. (Orwell preferred it to Brave New World)

My interpretation is t…m´Ç°ù±ðI would see it more as a precursor to "WE" by Zamyatin, which was a precursor to 1984. (Orwell preferred it to Brave New World)

My interpretation is that, while the oppression in 1984 and Brave New World are external, in WE it is internalized, as it is in Babbitt.

Rather than some outside actor forcing the individual, it is the individual that has adopted the conformity and thus has become in a way their own oppressor.

A far more subtle and insidious form of domination. (less)
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