Divergent And A Brave New World Comparison Essay
A life where citizens are forced to be happy and hide their individuality is not the life anyone should have to live or be forced to live. In the novels, Divergent and A Brave New World, both share many similarities and differences in their over controlled societies. The citizens of these societies life’s are controlled by their government’s educational courses, the extreme censoring of important information, and the restricted amount of individuality allowed in their communities.
In Veronica Roth’s novel, Divergent, the citizens are split into different factions. Each faction has a high specific character standard that must be met to be apart of that one faction. The book is about a young girl that breaks away from the conformed factions her …show more content…
The citizens have three different type of ways to become educated. The first type is allowing only job manuals to be read. This societies government has control over everything its citizens are allowed to read. The reading material given to the citizens is an example of educational censorship. The citizens are only able to read and learn the job manuals to better their skills in the workforce but are not allowed to further their education beyond those manuals, those that do are punished. Second way of learning is through speakers that are put in their pillows at night with a repeated the message that plays while the citizen is sleeping, and hands-on learning of the work they will be doing for the rest of their life’s. The government of A Brave New World has many powerful technologies that they use to do inhumane experiments. The technology that is in this novel is very bizarre such as cloning technology, this allows the government to control the personalities and individual thinking for the future. This society is spurious, the citizens willingly take a drug to put them in a state of delusion that makes them feel happy instead of their usual melancholy attitudes due to the over controlled live they are
In Veronica Roth’s novel, Divergent, the citizens are split into different factions. Each faction has a high specific character standard that must be met to be apart of that one faction. The book is about a young girl that breaks away from the conformed factions her …show more content…
The citizens have three different type of ways to become educated. The first type is allowing only job manuals to be read. This societies government has control over everything its citizens are allowed to read. The reading material given to the citizens is an example of educational censorship. The citizens are only able to read and learn the job manuals to better their skills in the workforce but are not allowed to further their education beyond those manuals, those that do are punished. Second way of learning is through speakers that are put in their pillows at night with a repeated the message that plays while the citizen is sleeping, and hands-on learning of the work they will be doing for the rest of their life’s. The government of A Brave New World has many powerful technologies that they use to do inhumane experiments. The technology that is in this novel is very bizarre such as cloning technology, this allows the government to control the personalities and individual thinking for the future. This society is spurious, the citizens willingly take a drug to put them in a state of delusion that makes them feel happy instead of their usual melancholy attitudes due to the over controlled live they are