Comparitive Essay

Authors Note: I once read part of a strange dystopion novel by Aldous Huxley called Brave New world, which has a sort of similar backdrop to Fahrenheit 451, which made it the perfect contender for a comparative essay. Ultimately I think the it turned as ranting and meaningless as it's subjects.

You get home from school, exhausted you sit down and read the boring book that dumb teacher of yours assigned you. All you wish you could do right now is to just grab a cola or sit down and play video games, just kicking back and enjoying your self right? Wouldn't it be great if we could do that all the time? According to the central themes of two notable examples of dystopian fiction Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World the world would be hell.

The two books detail a future where everybody is happy, anything sad is meaningless, and society lives in an eternal state of blissful ignorance to the outside world. But, according to the authors a life without sorrow, pain, and sympathy, is a life without meaning and a life not worth living. In both books the protagonists begin to question the emptiness of their current surroundings. Amusing and angering the masses, who react simply upon their wants, which is to either gawk at them or hate them, both are driven near insane ending in either exile or suicide.

The world painted by Bradbury, is a world where society has began to follow it's desires, conquering neighboring countries, killing each other, and burning books seems to be a mere foreshadow of the society painted by Huxley. In Brave New World everything a person does is driven by his preconditioned desires, every person is genetically altered to be of a certain caste which fills it's only desire in life, which is to meet the needs of the class above it, which is then left open to meet it's own wants.

There is more then enough evidence to conclude that both these author wanted us to think of how empty meaningless we all our without showing humanity to someone in need of it.