Analysis Of `` Brave New World `` By Aldous Huxley And The...

Politics is not a science, it is an art†¦ the art of compromise Derived from â€Å"polis† meaning city-state, politics as Bismarck refers to is an art of total government control, exercising complete authority and power by creating, introducing and enforcing rules made by collective decision. However in both texts, â€Å"Brave New World† by Aldous Huxley and the film â€Å"The Giver† directed Phillip Noyce, the roots of politics stem from the art of total and limitless control. The novel Brave New World presents a futuristic society that has tried to create a perfect community where everybody is happy, they use science to mass produce people and condition them to do and want only things prescribed to them, taking away freedoms such as the freedom to think for one self. While, â€Å"The Giver† sets a story in a society which at first is presented as a utopian world. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to sameness†. The main character Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Me mory, the person who stores all the memories of the past. Through a variety of literary techniques, the notion of politics as an art rather than a science is thus explored in both texts. Throughout the novel of Brave New World the author Aldous Huxley utilises satire in order to address and criticise political systems such as communism, through human conditioning and the Bokanovsky process. The novel presents the idea of the totalitarian World State playing god and having completeShow MoreRelatedA Comparison of Utopian Societies885 Words   |  4 PagesEver since the worlds first nation state was created, the number one goal of its citizens has been to create the â€Å"perfect† society. To a majority of people in the novels Brave New World (c.1932) by Aldous Huxley and The Giver (c.1993) by Lois Lowry, a utopia and â€Å"perfect† society has been accomplished. But at a second glance, the world that Huxley creates and Lowry’s community are actually totalitarian dystopias with many secrets. The similarities of both novels are evident and some readers may make