Dystopian Worlds In Brave New World, Uglies And The Island

The dystopian novels Brave New World, Uglies and the dystopian movie The Island holds many similarities between one another within the criteria of the state. Within these three examples of dystopian worlds, the state creates the expectation that citizens must maintain a young and good looking appearance for their entire lives. In Brave New World the state uses many tactics to keep their citizens youthful and beautiful, the state administers certain drugs to the citizens each day to maintain their youth and beauty until they reach 60 and die, so that they don't have to experience old age. They also genetically modify their embryos to be the perfect amount of beauty for each of their social classes, keeping everyone beautiful and young. The narrator in the first chapter sees the director walk into the room and thanks to themself “old, young? Thirty? Fifty? Fifty-five? It was hard to say” (Huxley,4) which indicates that because the citizens are kept so young and look the same throughout their lives that it's challenging just to identify someone's age. This example explains how the society of Brave New World youth is considered beautiful. This is just one of the …show more content…
Once they turn 16 and get a surgery which morphs the citizens into looking all the same- tall, skinny, young and flawless and they stay looking like that for the rest of their lives, never ageing - just forever staying young and beautiful.The main character of Uglies talks about how “In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.” (Westerfeld, 46), which demonstrates how the characters are conditioned to believe that anyone different or “normal” is not beautiful. This is yet another example that proves that citizens are conditioned to believe that any individualities whether it be age or just physical differences is ugly and