Our society becoming Brave New World The goal of dystopian novels is to portray the future of a society if it continues on the path that it is on. Three of the most famous dystopian novels are Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Bradbury and Orwell depict the future as the government using technology to control people. However, Huxley depicts the future as a society who finds absolute pleasure in technology. Huxley’s future is the most accurate to our society’s future when compared to Orwell’s and Bradbury’s because of his use of technology and pleasure. Aldous Huxley depicts the future in Brave New World as a society who finds pleasure in technology. When Linda returns to the world state
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In the story, the firemen have a mechanical hound that it used for hunting; it is said, “Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.” (Bradbury 22). They are finding pleasure in killing these helpless animals, which is unlike our society due to the fact that the government monitors and regulates the killing of animals and people actively fight for the rights of animals. Also, in he beginning of the story Montag says, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). People in today 's society also enjoy change and encourage it, but people in today 's society want good changes, advancements, and destroying knowledge is the exact opposite. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 the people value their televisions to a point where they consider the people on the television their family. For example, the main character Montag tells his wife, “’Will you turn the parlour off?’ he asked. ‘That 's my family.’" (1.493-4). Today 's society is not like this due to the fact that an obsession like this is not normal and not encouraged. Overall, Ray Bradbury’s use of technology and pleasure in his depiction of the future is not accurate to today 's
In the story, the firemen have a mechanical hound that it used for hunting; it is said, “Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.” (Bradbury 22). They are finding pleasure in killing these helpless animals, which is unlike our society due to the fact that the government monitors and regulates the killing of animals and people actively fight for the rights of animals. Also, in he beginning of the story Montag says, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). People in today 's society also enjoy change and encourage it, but people in today 's society want good changes, advancements, and destroying knowledge is the exact opposite. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 the people value their televisions to a point where they consider the people on the television their family. For example, the main character Montag tells his wife, “’Will you turn the parlour off?’ he asked. ‘That 's my family.’" (1.493-4). Today 's society is not like this due to the fact that an obsession like this is not normal and not encouraged. Overall, Ray Bradbury’s use of technology and pleasure in his depiction of the future is not accurate to today 's