Brave New World And Anthem Comparison Essay

In Anthem and Brave New World the kids never meet their parents. Also both books show the people getting put into jobs based on who their parents were. Both elements helped keep the government in power, and prevent the kids from becoming dependent on their parents. In Brave New World it is a bad thing to know your child. Seen as an obscene action parents never want to know their child, this action is also shown in Anthem. “Children are born each winter, but women never see their children and children never know their parents” (Anthem Ch. 2 Pg. 41). In today’s society it is considered sad if you don’t know who your parents are, but in both Anthem and Brave New World it was a normal thing not to know who your parents are. In Brave New World it considered a bad thing to know who your parents are because it is considered gross to admit to bearing a child. While in Anthem you never really doubt that you should know who your child is, it’s just considered a normal thing
In Brave New World the children are bred in a lab by a lot of different people. The children in Brave New World are conceived in a mechanical way that is still controlled be the government. In Anthem the children are conceived naturally. “And we take no heed of the law which says that men may not think of women, save the Time of Mating. This is the time each spring when all the men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating. And each of the men have one of the women assigned to them by the Council of Eugenics” (Anthem Ch. 2 Pg. 41). The people think they are doing a good thing by having kids and they believe it makes their lives easier to never know their kids. In reality the government it controlling them by breaking down the family bonds that are formed throughout the child life, in this way they gain