1984 and Brave New World Many people like to compare and contrast these books. Many people say that 1984 ignores the elite using pleasure to force the population to conform to their will, this isn't true. The book mentions in the first few chapters that the bottom 80% are kept in line by use of pornography and by vapid entertainment. The book is about the upper classes who do more intellectual work, if the book focused on the proles, it would just be Brave New World all over again.