... that encourage citizens to act with the greater good in mind rather than viewing themselves as an individual. While they do have their differences, "Brave New World" and "Anthem" are similar in the fact that they depict futuristic "utopias"" with governing bodies that are ridden with corruption, and have ... from the Unmentionable Times. One of the major themes of both novels is the need for celebration of the individual. Both so-called "utopian"" societies are shown to be more dystopian because of the lack of individual freedoms. In Brave New World it is discussed how John is disgusted ...

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Brave New World- Lenina Crowne (Major) Lenina is a very pretty girl that works in the hatchery. She is emotional, nave, and capricious, and falls in love with John the ... prostitute because she constantly throws herself at him, which he thinks is immoral. She is like many other citizens: shallow and unhappy. Like all well conditioned citizens of the World State, Lenina believes in having sex whenever she wants. She is too shallow to understand why John the Savage avoids having sex with her. Lenina is depicted more as ... violence. Lenina doesn't understand what real love is because she thin...

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... reach the same heights. The rediscovery and reassessment of William Morris" News From Nowhere (1890), which set the ecotopian template, inspired Aldous Huxley to revisit his own dystopian template of Brave New World with the novel Island (1962), a marriage of Buddhist philosophy with Western science. This started the trend, but for a long time it remained an isolated example, even though the ecological ... at all. He disdainfully refers to it as "the last refuge of the unimaginative", and expresses a desire for science fiction to become abstract and start exploring a number of high-conc...

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... the situation is ideal, something that everyone wants becomes the root of complete chaos and destruction. The authors of these books, Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) and William Golding (Lord of the Flies) all write detailed stories in which the main character is the only ... a bad ideal state. It is therefore a novel about ideas, and its themes are as important as its plot. Most are expressed as fundamental principles of the Utopia, the brave new world. Community, Identity, Stability is the motto of the World State. It lists the Utopia's prime goals. Commu...

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• Grade Level: High School