The dystopian societies in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are fairly different, but oddly similar in many ways. Both books incorporate ideas of behavioral conditioning, as well as twisted ideas of happiness and totalitarian government control. Brave New World shows a future so radically cold and unfeeling that it will send chills up any reader’s spine. The once affectionate term of “parent,” “mother,” or “father,” have now become curse words. Children are created in test tubes, some with ninety identical twins. Also, the international pastime of their day is sex. Fortunately, Bradbury’s society still keeps some major moral values in line with those of the world today. Unfortunately, Fahrenheit 451’s
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Mildred was completely obsessed with them, alongside every other housewife in their society. The parlors were rooms consisting of television screens that took up an entire wall. Mildred sent in box tops in order to place herself into one of the programs. She is given small lines to speak out loud as the actors wait for her. It is a clever tactic that makes her feel more involved, and therefore more attached to this “family” of hers (Bradbury 20). Another way that the people could achieve happiness is by means of ignorance. Everybody knows that “ignorance is bliss,” but Fahrenheit 451 takes it to a whole new level. People would rather be safe than free to think whatever thoughts they wanted to. Poor Mildred was positively miserable when she was attempting to help Montag end his own ignorance. To some extent, Montag ended his happiness by trying to end his ignorance. They had set out to decipher the meanings behind all of the books that he had kept piled up in secret (Bradbury 73). She was also afraid of what would happen if the firemen discovered. She goes so far as to call in the alarm on her own husband to end her misery with the
Mildred was completely obsessed with them, alongside every other housewife in their society. The parlors were rooms consisting of television screens that took up an entire wall. Mildred sent in box tops in order to place herself into one of the programs. She is given small lines to speak out loud as the actors wait for her. It is a clever tactic that makes her feel more involved, and therefore more attached to this “family” of hers (Bradbury 20). Another way that the people could achieve happiness is by means of ignorance. Everybody knows that “ignorance is bliss,” but Fahrenheit 451 takes it to a whole new level. People would rather be safe than free to think whatever thoughts they wanted to. Poor Mildred was positively miserable when she was attempting to help Montag end his own ignorance. To some extent, Montag ended his happiness by trying to end his ignorance. They had set out to decipher the meanings behind all of the books that he had kept piled up in secret (Bradbury 73). She was also afraid of what would happen if the firemen discovered. She goes so far as to call in the alarm on her own husband to end her misery with the