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BNW In the two books that we read, Anthem and Brave New World, there are several things in their societies that are the same, and several things that are different. They do spend their free time doing different things, but their beliefs are basically the same. The two groups educate their children in almost the same way. They are both taught in groups of people that were born at the same time. The information is constantly drilled in to their heads whether they like it or not. In Brave New World, they try to teach them when they are sleeping. Neither one of them has a choice of what they want to learn or whether or not they want to learn anything. If they go against the learning process, they will be punished. The kids don’t really have a choice in what they do with the rest of their lives. The kids in Anthem have their jobs chosen after they are done with all of their education. In Brave New World, their future is chosen before they are even born. They are taught to like the life they are given even if they would rather be doing something else. Both societies have people that rebel against their chosen path, but it doesn’t really do any of them any good. Another thing that is the same in the two societies is their belief that there is no such thing as the individual. They are all taught that what they do is for the good of all the people not just themselves. Even though some of them have worse jobs, they are just as important as the people higher up. They are expected to be happy with what they have and even if they aren’t, they shouldn’t express their feelings or others think of it as a sin. An invention or an advancement in something will only be accepted if it helps the rest of the people, such as creating more jobs for them. It has to be more complicated than something that already exists. This helps them to keep bettering the things they have. Although the two societies have almost the same rules about new inventions, the technology they both have is nothing alike. The people in Brave New World are much more advanced. I would say they have even more than we do today. They fly around in helicopters instead of driving cars. Their helicopters even seem more advanced than ours because of how fast they go. The reason these people are so advanced is the same reason the people in Anthem have so little technology. They only allow certain people to create new things. If anyone other than these people invent something, they are punished by being whipped. They don’t even have light bulbs. For some reason they choose not to make new thing better then the ones they have. They think this will hurt their society. There are two very big differences in the societies. The first one is in how their children are born. In Anthem, they are born just how our babies are. They are born naturally and without being given any drugs to alter the way they come out. The mothers go through normal birth and then the children are immediately taken away from them to begin their education. They never see their mothers again. The babies in Brave New World don’t really have mothers. They grow inside of containers until they can live on their own. They are given drugs while they are inside of the containers that change the way that they will come out. The drugs change the size of their body, their looks, how they think, and determine what social class they will be in. In Anthem, their class is chosen when they are grown up and ready to live without supervision. The second thing that is obviously different in the two societies is what they do in their spare time. In Anthem, they don’t have any spare time. Their whole day is spent working their job. When they get done at the end of the day, they are fed and then have to go to sleep. They aren’t allowed time to do anythin other than their job. They can’t really have any kind of relationships with other people. They rarely even talk to others. The people in Brave New World do several things. They play sports, go out with friends, and are encouraged to see many different women. Their relationships with others, especially of the opposite sex, are encouraged, not forbidden. Their free time is spent in much the same way as ours is. They don’t really have any rules of what they can do. Over all, the two societies have basically the same beliefs and their lives are based around the same thing. I think both of the societies are different and I know that I wouldn’t want to live in either one. Bibliography:

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