Brave New World By Aldous Huxley And The Giver By Lois Lowry

Ever since the worlds first nation state was created, the number one goal of its citizens has been to create the “perfect” society. To a majority of people in the novels Brave New World (c.1932) by Aldous Huxley and The Giver (c.1993) by Lois Lowry, a utopia and “perfect” society has been accomplished. But at a second glance, the world that Huxley creates and Lowry’s community are actually totalitarian dystopias with many secrets. The similarities of both novels are evident and some readers may make

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know

Novels of the same subject may have unique ways of expressing the authors’ ideas. The dystopian narratives such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Giver by Lois Lowry share many similarities concerning the concept of dystopia and distress. In this essay, I would like to highlight the main similarities and differences of the two novels; looking at programmable humans and the population which was created to be satisfied and accepting of their environments through pre-conditioning. While many

Huxley’s Brave New World and Lowry’s The Giver explore the idea that conformity and sameness replace diversity and individuality by means of scientific experiments done to the genes. So the ideology of eliminating individuality and uniqueness is one of the requirements of the continuity of the dystopian functional society. Chris Ferns sees that in the dystopian society “people are types rather than distinct individuals” (Ferns 113). Booker and Thomas also see that “people are even referred to as

Right now, each and every one of you reading this sentence is in fact under a form of mind control. I have entered words in the form of text which your brain interprets with relatively objective agreed upon meanings. I am making your brain say things, for example: monkeybutt. An elephant in a tutu. Peanut butter pickle sandwiches. I will hold my maniacal laughter to the end. In all seriousness though, there are various schools of thought about mind control in dystopian fiction, and the role that