Brave New World Movie And Book Comparison Essay

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Divergent by Veronica Roth are two novels with similar facets and extreme differences. Divergent takes place within a dystopian world, where attributes predestine the future, and anyone who does not fit into only one category is told to condemn and hide their status. Brave New World exists in a totalitarian technology driven society in which the production of people is factory run, and a caste system is the backbone of society. Both novels contain themes around how the government views and controls rebellion, using shared ideas, characters, and point of view to warn and teach about corruption through the use of predestination, shared knowledge, and caste systems, however these ideas differ in some places,

The Erudites are allowed to insert tracking devices into the other factions, stating that they will assist in public safety and that no harm would come to anyone. Despite their initial claims of benevolence, they injected the other factions with mind control serums that lay dormant until activated for war against the Abnegation, the neutral and selfless nation. As the Erudites value the use of violence to initiate status, the Dauntless faction also uses violence to determine who remains in the faction and also the top 10 members who will have easier lives. To join the Dauntless faction, members must conquer their fears in a series of tests, and finally go through one final test where they are faced with all of their fears, and must face them all. They are also introduced to weapon training and are taught how to fight. Rather than being introduced to violence and encouraged to participate in violent events, the members of society in Brave New World are hidden from violence and fear. The drug soma is used to allow the public to escape their fears, rather than face them. Even though the fear or problems will