Please feel free to explain your answer, and tell me of any distinct similarities you see between the 2 stories.
2006-08-20 10:12:39 · 11 answers · asked by solipsistic 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm not doing a book report, or in school. I was just interested to hear what y'all thought about 2 books I've recently re-read.
2006-08-20 12:28:00 · update #1
I kinda like Brave New World better......srry to tired to explain...
2006-08-20 10:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are tales of a dystopian future. Brave New World is very depressing and ends on a negative note. I liked it as a well-written fantasy based on a well-documented reality, but have no interest in reading it again. Fahrenheit 451 leaves you with the hope that the dysfunctional inevitabilities of socialism run amok can be overcome by innate human yearnings and capacities. I have read it several times, and seen the film at least twice. Both books, and more, are based on the realities of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union prior to 1991.
2006-08-20 10:50:39 · answer #2 · answered by dragonwych 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never read Brave New World so i suppose id have to say Fahrenheit 451. Good Book!
2006-08-20 10:19:42 · answer #3 · answered by amy dawn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that Brave New World's focus was on basic Governmental control of people through the use of drugs and mind control, where as Fahrenheit 451 was a follow up of the theme of population control through the denial of access to knowlege, thereby stiffling dissent and freedom of opinion and thought. When you add George Orwell's 1984, you have the beginning of the trilogy of control of the population through the social process of mind and thought control, enhancement of control through the use of mood altering drugs, and the continued improvement of the process of thought control.
2006-08-20 12:02:42 · answer #4 · answered by Lance U 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well...I've never read Brave New World so I have to say Fahrenheit 451...a world without books...noooooooo
2006-08-20 10:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by Tamsin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feel free to do your own book reports.
I have read both. I found 451 entertaining and BNW very slow paced
2006-08-20 10:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Grundoon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree...you need to do your own book report.
However, Fahrenheit 451 was definitely my favorite.
2006-08-20 11:15:10 · answer #7 · answered by Kaia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Iron Heel through Jack London Mallcity14 through Shaun A. Saunders Kallocain through Karin Boye We through Yevgeny Zamyatin (very underrated; alongside the lines of 1984) it may't ensue the following through Sinclair Lewis Gun, With Occasional song through Jonathan Lethem and entire wide international through Paul McAuley are 2 others that are resembling 1984 with reference to authorities surveillance and administration.
2016-11-30 21:36:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are classic science fiction and I recently read both over the summer. Though BNW has more scientific and sociological ideas in it, I perfer F451. F451 has a more logical future to me (much of it has happened!) and Bradbury's style is much more clear and to the point.
Both are incredibly important for their ideas, I enjoyed both.
As for similarities I'd say there's a lot of the whole "Big Brother" aspect of controlling the people. F51 through ideas, television and fear and BNW through brainwashing, conditioning, drugs and sex.
2006-08-20 11:26:45 · answer #9 · answered by Silver Snake 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like them both but I think I like F451 best
2006-08-20 10:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by mediagirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋