Brave New World Dystopian Essay

Imagine a world in which there is only despair and that is supervised to an extreme point. Dystopian societies are undesirable and unpleasant to live in while people think they’re benefiting themselves but are actually destroying their freedom. The works Brave New World, “Harrison Bergeron” and “Fifty States of Fear” all have dystopian elements with varying degrees of sacrifice and gain. In general, dystopian societies offer safety, and equality; however, citizens sacrifice individuality and freedom, which, as shown in the texts, can lead to complete authorization of the upper class. The citizens of the state feel as though they’re fully protected from harm and receive much comfort to insure their own safety. For example, “All this equality …show more content…
Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays’” (Huxley 91). Lenina’s statement as being ‘free’ represents that the world is now different and they have more freedom than they did before Ford. Gaining freedom is the absolute best thing you could receive and live off from even if you feel as though there’s no such thing about it. As for the reality benefits now in present day, “They don’t work to minimize fear, but use it to exert control over the populace and serve the government’s principal aim: consolidating power” (Ludlow 1). This explains how the government is creating benefits for themselves by causing fear to the citizens to control the country or state. As for those citizens being impaled by fear, they give their life to the government in return for safety as a benefit for themselves as reassurance that someone is out there protecting them. There’s many benefits that help the citizens or the government to make everyone happy and free from fear, even though fear still stands as a big barrier to different opportunities. Every person wants safety and freedom, but ends up without it or give everything that they have to be reassured that there’s no fear