see him as a savage and primitive being. They attempt to reveal their world to John, but with little success. “Bernard and Hemholtz show off Utopia to John. He is more disgusted and moody with each passing day"(Carey 13). It is ironic that the members of this so-called Utopia call John the savage when he truly is not. "But the central irony in Huxley's evocation of the Noble Savage idea is that although John Savage, as he comes to be called, fits the romantic prototype in that he has a natural dignity and intelligence, he is not a savage"(Guinevera 76). This shows that Brave New World to a regular person is not seen to be a utopia; it is seen to be a dystopian horror. Another novel, Fahrenheit 451, reaches for utopia but ends up with dystopia. Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 shows a society that creates a world of bliss, a world without the causes of pain and confusion, which in turn only leads to a world with no thoughts. The society believes that pain was causing dystopia along with pandemonium. The society of Fahrenheit 451 begins to strive for complete happiness, believing that utopia would soon be reached. To rid pain they made devices to continuously pump in happy thoughts. Such devices resemble television sets except one is completely surround on all four sides by screens and headsets to calm you and dispense happy thoughts. "...in her ears the little seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in... of her unsleeping mind"(Bradbury 11). This demonstrates well how the society of Fahrenheit 451 tries to keep everyone happy and free from pain and confusion by robbing them of feeling. However, these devises are not enough; the human brain has many thoughts and so the society is cornered into having to try to keep the mind free of any thoughts other then happy ones.This world believes that knowledge from literature causes much unneeded controversy, ...
