The Road- Brave New World Compare and Contrast Essay

These are just a few examples of how the population is dehumanized and dominated by the World State through the use of technology. Huxley seems to have passed over the ideas of automation so that even the lowest in the caste system have a purpose, including toiling away in factories or working in elevators. In both novels the authors abolish the past to serve the beliefs of their governments. In Brave New World this society embraces the misquoted line “History is bunk” and have no intrests in history…

“But people never are alone now, we make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them to have it” (Huxley 235). The commonality between Brave New World and 1984 is that the prevention of individuality allows the government to control its citizens. In both 1984 and Brave New World a method to convey government control is displayed in the way both governments control knowledge. In 1984 many of the citizens of London are illiterate and are unable to write. This…

shows a failure in the conditioning because they were taught to hate flowers. Flowers do not provide the World State with money. I do believe that there is flaws because if people started to explore like Bernard they might find an interest in things (nature) that do not benefit the World States economy. I also think that their conditioning for their economy is a strong system because the World State is stable meaning everyone is happy living a perfect life. Isn’t that what we all want? Questions:…

As mentioned earlier, in each book the main characters rebelled against the current system. Both characters felt there was something intrinsically wrong with society and began to question the norms. They each used references to the past or a contrast society as comparison to the current system. Each character felt there was something wrong and tried to get other people to notice it as well and finally took a physical action to stand up for what they believe in. In each case they were brought…

forward). Huxley is saying that although our society would like to think that it is sexually stable, there is a lack of monogamy among the general population. Another aspect of the Brave New World culture that is symbolically similar to our own culture, is the very distinct caste system. People of the Brave New World are “born” with a specified intelligence level. This level of superiority (or inferiority) is group into different castes. For example, Alphas are the smart superior individuals,…

Without them, we are not humans: we are simply mechanical clones. For instance, take the people of the Brave New World. Their rationality does not come from their hearts or their own minds, but from a machine that feeds them pointless, repetitive rhetoric to keep them happy, under control, and unaware. It is because of this that the people of the Brave New World are shallow, cold, and have no compassion for anyone else, but themselves because they are “conditioned” (40) to be that way. This is clearly…

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership…

the central hatchery and conditioning center in London is “the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY,”(Huxley 3). Community is the value of this society that everything is for the greater good, and not for the individual. It can be questioned what is meant of identity here. A possibility is that Huxley is mocking the lack of individuality among society. It also may refer to the identity that the “Brave New World” has as a whole, rejecting the identity of individuals. Through…

It may seem to be a utopia, but in essence, brave new world is far from it. Well-being is not and can not be, genetically pre-programmed, but that is what the soma is for. When one of the inhabitants experiences unpleasant thoughts or emotions, which supposedly do not exist anyway, they receive soma: “One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments( ).” Although the people here are allegedly emotionless, it is shown that they are far from it. Bernard is overcome by feelings of non-conformity…

Meanwhile, John's dissatisfaction with the World State, and with the civilised world is in part to do with the fact that he had not been conditioned to accept it. Hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching, is an essential part of World State life. If it were not for hypnopaedia, the world would not have been as stable as it was. The countless lessons drummed into the citizen's brains are the very reason for people believing what they do. In Brave New World, the belief that "repeating something several times…