Comparison Of Omelas And A Brave New World

There are many ways that A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula Leguin signify a marxist criticism in a similar form. They both mainly focus on social class and political ideologies. Both of the authors try to inform, persuade, and entertain their audience by showing them a twisted and ridiculously un moralistic societal structure. The social structures defined in the two stories conform and contradict the social structures we have in modern day life. As I view them both under a kind of lense that shows truth and meaning I can help the author show the political and social comparison of the novels to our modern day world. In a brave new world the social structure strongly compares to our social

Dave, Frank mentions this on behalf that it can be shown that modern day United States does the same thing. The people from a brave new world do not get to choose where they belong in the social class pyramid. The people in present day US, do not always get to choose themselves. In the novel they have the alphas was being at the top and the epsilons as the lowest. The wealthy people in our world are know as being in the top of the social class pyramid, while the poor who live in poverty are at the bottom. What does the people from the novel and the people from present day US have in common? They both have some one over the whole structure. The scientists and government run the whole nation in both the novel and real life. They tell us what to say, where we can work, they give us freedom but we have to pay for everything. We pay for all of our rights, we have to pay for them or they will be taken away. They control us by using taxes against as well. We have to pay for land and we have to pay to keep it. We pay for a car and we have to pay to drive it. We even have to pay to go fishing. In the novel they are controlled in a similar but more frightening way, they take soma. Soma is a drug to make the people forget what’s really going on. In our world soma is a symbol for media. Media has more power over the modern people then soma does to the people from the novel. Media has the power to control what we see, what we hear, and even how we think. They expose pointless news and celebrity drama to distract the us and make us ignorant from what really happens in the world. Just like in a brave new world we live in a world where we’re too worried about celebrities personal lives than war, corruption, and government lies. However in the novel the ones who left omelas ,Gabrielle Bellot stated in a scholarly review that they are also being