The Road- Brave New World Compare and Contrast Essay
Differentiating Societies It is remarkable how differentiated works of literature can be so similar and yet so different, just by the way the authors choose to use select certain literary devices. Two different novels, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, display these characteristics because of the ways the authors institute such mechanisms. Brave New World describes a futuristic era where humans are genetically manufactured for a certain job predestined to them before they are artificially created, and where common human emotions, desires, wants, and needs have all been modified to support a deemed utopian society where everyone lives and works together in harmony. The Road describes a post-apocalyptic world where a father and son travel across what used to be the United States, searching for food and supplies while trying to avoid death, in hopes of finding some sort of salvation which is sure to never come. In both Brave New World and The Road, the authors each utilize writing strategies such as theme, syntax, and characterization in different ways to create aspects that allow for comparative and contrastive elements to be observed between the two novels. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley establishes a distinct theme that describes the theoretical disastrous consequences that may occur if technology evolves out of hand in the future. This theme revolves around the possibility, according to Huxley, that our world will one day come to a government controlled, “utopian” end, resulting in an artificial society free from emotional diversity and distinguished thought if our world becomes too technologically advanced and dependent. In his novel, Huxley exemplifies this theme through many instances, one in particular being a case where one of the characters is arguing with the head of this particular society. This character, the Savage, in response to the head controller Mustapha Mond’s opinion that society should be based on