minating the crime and greed that comes with it. In order to maintain a society free of social inequality both authors set up a civilization based on strict societal structure. In More’s Utopia, a system was set up so that all work was completed. The people of Utopia felt that “many hands made work light,” and so all work was divided equally and fairly. Every year 20 people from the city move to the country to learn from the farm workers who moved before them, in turn 20 people from the country move to the cityand learn from those who live there. This is done every two years and insures equality and precision. The farm workers know exactly how much produce is needed to feed the city and its district, but they plant more to share with their neighbors. When it is time to harvest, crews come from all over the city and neighboring areas and they are able to get everything done in one day. Brave New World also uses a very structured system in their society. Advances in eugenics allow the Controllers to reproduce almost any type of human being they need. The elimination of birth gives way to decanting, where all of the fetuses develop in a tube. In order to have a well balanced society, the Controllers use injections of alcohol to make some of the babies unintelligent. These babies grow up to be the epsilons, who although conditioned to believe they were the best caste to be, were actually the lowest class and did all of the mundane work. As the Controller Mustapha Mond elegantly puts it, "The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg -- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above." In order to further insure stability, the Controllers of Brave New World have also provided the workers with endless distractions, some of which are similar to those that are popular today. Foremost among these is soma, "the perfect drug." It is "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinate" and has "all the advantages of Christiani...
