A Brave New World: A Comparative Analysis

Many futuristic books open the world to possible world-changing events and things. A great example of a book who predicted a future world-changing thing is The World Set Free by H.G. Wells that talk about the creation of an atomic bomb. Brave New World is also a famous book which opens the world to a world-changing society in which society is controlled by technology and the relation to this world is closer than you think. The dystopian society of Brave New World and the modern society of 1930s share common similarities in social, political, and economic trends.
Both these societies display similar political trends. In these societies, many individuals who obtain power and knowledge become removed from their societies. An example of a person

Both these societies also share similar economic trends. The first trend they share is to encourage individuals to buy new products. In the society of 1930s, many individuals were told to buy products in order for the country to gain foothold on its economy. The same can be said about Brave New World’s society. Both these societies encourage consumers to buy new products to maintain the government’s economy. The second similar economic point-of-view they both share is to discourage consumers to repair old products. In Brave New World, citizens are conditioned to say “Ending is better than mending” (52 Huxley). The quote stated in Brave New World is a conditioning phrase used to tell the individuals that it's better to buy something new than to try to fix the old. For instance, if you own a car and it breaks down for some reason, the World State would encourage you to buy a new car, rather than trying to fix it. That logic is also applied in the 1930s society in which they wish for people to buy new products because the more new products that are sold, the more can be produced thus allowing more jobs to become available. This causes an infinite loop cycle in which the economy continues to become more stable. The third similar economic structure they share is that people should buy more complex machinery/products. Throughout history many toys started out as simple toys such as Die cast metal cars and Teddy Bear but grew even more complex resulting in the a toy with a ball attached to a string. The same can be said about the Brave New World society in which many toys such as the Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy requires twenty players to play and had complicated rules. The creation of advanced machinery/ toys encourages its citizens to buy more of these new products. This shows us that the economy of these societies are ruled by encouraging people to buy new products, discard destroyed