Similarities Between The Lottery And Brave New World

Unreal Society

Brave New World is a novel written on 1931 by Aldous Huxley. “The Lottery”by Shirley Jackson was written on June 26, 1948 . In “The Lottery” and Brave New World, they depict two different societies that will continue indefinitely on their own path because of their own traditions without concern about what other societies think.
First, in the ”The Lottery” the black box represents a tradition that has been followed for longer than people can remember. Like the lottery as a whole, the black box has no functionality except during this day every June: "It had spent one year in Mr Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there" (Jackson 6). The purpose of the box, like the lottery itself, has become

From the mass point of view the purely brainwashed individuals of this utopia world the questions raised by the social disturbers are fool questions because they are not answerable by the so "obvious" answers they possess and that everybody else does. “Soma was served with the coffee. Lenina took two half-gramme tablets and Henry three" (Huxley 89). Therefore in the story this is something that they had to live with on a everyday basis it wasn't just a one time a day, it was an everyday process like a tradition they had to follow.

As a result in the arguments above In “The Lottery” and Brave New World, they take two completely different societies and explain how these two worlds choose their own path and how other view them as they do it. Therefore the main society in the two books are very divided up they both have there own ways that they do things in and they both have separate traditions like in the lottery they have a black box which for them is there main tradition that they use once a month and in brave world they use soma as their tradition to get everybody going. Also doing things maybe other would not approve