Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two timeless novels that stylized a now-popular form of fiction - the dystopian genre. This genre typically takes place in a futuristic setting, with many works having themes of oppressive governments, advancement of technology, and sometimes even human evolution. Both novels, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World, share a common overall theme of a unique, creative, and often terrifying dystopian society, though they differ in their approaches to this in several critical ways. Key points of human happiness, censorship, and government control over society are heavily addressed, yet both authors do so differently, leading to two similar ideas with two different results. Happiness
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In Brave New World, the government seen here has completely created a new society from the ground up. This government is set up with the rules being made by ten “world controllers” each with a different region to control. This happens after the “Nine Years War” in which all of the world governments were overthrown by this new government. The destruction resulting from the chemical and atomic violence lead to the human race being in what was essentially a blank template for this new government to create a new society as they saw fit. They began growing people in test tubes on assembly lines, in order to control the population, and created the caste system, to replace social classes. The caste system goes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, in order from highest to lowest. The lower castes such as Epsilons and Deltas have their embryo tampered with along the assembly line, to make them physically not on par with Alphas, who have no tampering at all to their embryos. Once born, the children undergo “hypnopaedia”, or the repetitions of phrases during sleep so that certain ideas become ingrained in them before they can even form ideas. This is to brainwash society into happiness and acceptance of their class (Huxley 16) For example, Epsilons are perfectly happy where they are, and don 't like other classes. They enjoy their positions and think those above them have too much work. this creates an illusion of freedom and happiness in these
In Brave New World, the government seen here has completely created a new society from the ground up. This government is set up with the rules being made by ten “world controllers” each with a different region to control. This happens after the “Nine Years War” in which all of the world governments were overthrown by this new government. The destruction resulting from the chemical and atomic violence lead to the human race being in what was essentially a blank template for this new government to create a new society as they saw fit. They began growing people in test tubes on assembly lines, in order to control the population, and created the caste system, to replace social classes. The caste system goes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, in order from highest to lowest. The lower castes such as Epsilons and Deltas have their embryo tampered with along the assembly line, to make them physically not on par with Alphas, who have no tampering at all to their embryos. Once born, the children undergo “hypnopaedia”, or the repetitions of phrases during sleep so that certain ideas become ingrained in them before they can even form ideas. This is to brainwash society into happiness and acceptance of their class (Huxley 16) For example, Epsilons are perfectly happy where they are, and don 't like other classes. They enjoy their positions and think those above them have too much work. this creates an illusion of freedom and happiness in these