Brave New World Comparison
The Hunger Games, Divergent, V for Vendetta, even The Matrix, are all titles of movies and novels that are well known through popular culture and idealised by teens for extraordinary story lines and plot themes. However, has this younger and naive generation, so intrigued, invested, and fascinated with these series ever read ‘Brave New World’?
"O wonder! […] How many goodly creatures there are here! How beauteous mankind is! […] O brave new world […]. O brave new world. […] O brave new world that has such people in it!" A quote from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest ’ (1610). This was the foundation for Huxley’s novel. His cunning approach to redefine one of the most underrated lines in Shakespeare’s writing went hand-in-hand with Huxley’s deep understanding of linguistics. In doing so, he formed an idea of a …show more content…
In this novel the twelve districts have different socioeconomic statuses, as compared to the intelligence levels altering between classes in Brave New World. The story lines go on completely different paths to each other, but still provide the same underlining question, ‘What does such a system cost.’
Vast amounts of movies are being produced around the same themes, although not many would consider who the pioneer of these ideas was. ‘Divergent’ is another up and coming teen fiction that has been made into a trilogy and even this series has the same foundations. Based in the future, a society divided into five factions, all-working with one another to progress as a society. The same idea goes for V for vendetta, The Matrix and many other dystopian texts.
Huxley formed the basis for dystopian literature; even George Orwell was a main contributor with the novel ‘1984’ to the standard of all modern totalitarian dystopian texts. Though why does it seem to be that in recent years these great names have been lost to the
"O wonder! […] How many goodly creatures there are here! How beauteous mankind is! […] O brave new world […]. O brave new world. […] O brave new world that has such people in it!" A quote from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest ’ (1610). This was the foundation for Huxley’s novel. His cunning approach to redefine one of the most underrated lines in Shakespeare’s writing went hand-in-hand with Huxley’s deep understanding of linguistics. In doing so, he formed an idea of a …show more content…
In this novel the twelve districts have different socioeconomic statuses, as compared to the intelligence levels altering between classes in Brave New World. The story lines go on completely different paths to each other, but still provide the same underlining question, ‘What does such a system cost.’
Vast amounts of movies are being produced around the same themes, although not many would consider who the pioneer of these ideas was. ‘Divergent’ is another up and coming teen fiction that has been made into a trilogy and even this series has the same foundations. Based in the future, a society divided into five factions, all-working with one another to progress as a society. The same idea goes for V for vendetta, The Matrix and many other dystopian texts.
Huxley formed the basis for dystopian literature; even George Orwell was a main contributor with the novel ‘1984’ to the standard of all modern totalitarian dystopian texts. Though why does it seem to be that in recent years these great names have been lost to the