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doger1
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I am comparing "Brave New World" with "Fahrenheit 451."

 

I try compare Brave new World with Lord of the Fahrenheit 451. I can find a lot of parallel: conform, banish religion art book, history is useless, the people hasn't a indivduel live, in both book there are rebels again the society order, how the spend their pastime, is antisocial to have another opinion, the people hasn't a deep emotion discussions, to oppress their feeling they take soma/drug, in both book you can find two different world.

What are the difference?

- The end of Fahrenheit 451 is more hopeful, because this society is destroyed so now can createda new, better world.

- Fahrenheit 451 is more brutal, because the opponent are killed

 

What are the others?

Thank you very much

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Posted by doger1 on Monday March 23, 2009 at 3:36 AM and tagged with brave new world, differences, fahrenheit 451.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    You've done a good job starting this comparison. I'd add a few other points, and I'd start with style. "Brave New World" is much more satirical. There are times when Huxley seems to be enjoying creating this society. Look at the exclamations his characters let out, and the phrases they use. By contrast, Bradbury's novel is much more imagistic and poetic. Turning to the content of the society's, Huxley's society is much more completely designed, and extends further into the lives of the characters. They are shaped from before birth towards specific ends. By contrast, in Bradbury's novel, the social structure seems imposed on an older society: ours. There are still remnants of it everywhere, in the books most especially.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/brave/essays-criticism

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    Posted by gbeatty on Monday March 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM


  2. timbrady Teacher
    College - Senior

    eNotes Editor

    Both books express and interest in the realtionship between language and thought, books and life.  In BNW, Shakespeare provides John with a language that allows him to understand the world in a way that citizens of BNW cannot possibly imagine because we imagine in words.  There are more books in F451, but they serve the same function, preserving and presenting ideas that otherwise would be lost.

    The major difference is Huxley's interest in and concern about science and the modern world.  Coming from a family of scientists with a special interest in biology, he was afraid that a scientific bureaucracy would control the world in the future, using mainpulation of the population to achieve "painlessly" what Orwell did through force in another modern dytopian novel, "1984."  This is easy to see in the opening of the book.  Reporduction, the most natural of phenonenon, has been replaced by scientific reproduction that allows the creation of individuals, designed by the state, to create a maximum of stability and a minimum of consciousness/creativity.  The journey through the hatchery is reminiscient of the journey through the birth canal, although the end product is totally different.

    I believe that this is the main difference between the two books should you wish to explore it.  Whereas they both deal with the role of language/books in life/thought, BWN is much moe concerned with the complicated role of science in our world and who controls it for what purpose.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/brave/themes
    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/themes

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    Posted by timbrady on Monday March 23, 2009 at 12:47 PM