Brave New World - Compared To Fahrenheit 451

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"Books and loud noises...already in the infant mind these couples are compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has jointed, nature is powerless to put asunder," (Huxley 21-22). We come to learn that the basic reasoning behind this conditioning against reading in Brave New World was because "you couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes" (Huxley 22).
In Fahrenheit 451 the outlawing of book reading is taken to an even greater extent. In this novel the whole purpose of a "firefighter" isn't to put out fires, rather it is to start fires. The reading of books in their society is completely forbidden and if someone is suspected of even owning a book, the firefighters are dispatched to go to that person's residence and start a fire. They start fires for ...

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hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so it's almost impossible for them to ever have it" (Huxley 235). The different castes are also conditioned to like their jobs. This maintains stability because everyone does their job without complaint and remains happy. According to Mond, "they like their work...It's light, it's childishly simple. No strain on the mind or the muscles. Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and the the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?" (Huxley224).
As far as life being made easy for them goes, Mond says, "There isn't any need for a civilzed man to bear anything that's seriously ...

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