In Brave New World, sex is encouraged because it keeps people happy, though love is not. The state does not encourage the people to fall in love with someone because love leads to the want to start a family and have kids. Although both societies do not want the people to fall in love, Brave New World does a better job of preventing it than 1984's society does, because they train and brainwash the people into believing love is bad. ... Additionally the fact that he called Juliet "idiotic" for loving Romeo indicates that he does not believe in love and devotion. ... In Huxley'...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seein...

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Winston hates the Party passionately and wants to test the limits of its power by committing innumerable crimes throughout the novel, ranging from writing "Down with Big Brother- in his diary, to having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting himself secretly indoctrinated into the anti-Party Brotherhood. ... In Brave New World it is possible to identify two main types of truth that the World State seeks to eliminate: it controls and muffles all efforts by citizens to gain any sort of scientific or empirical truth, and it attempts to destroy all kinds of human truths, such as love, frien...

• Word Count: 1697
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In the World State, a person's life begins in a test tube when they are genetically engineered to fit into the structured caste system, and one's fate is predetermined by a scientist in the Central London Hatchery. ... All the mistakes one makes, all the pain one feels, all the love one shares are the reasons one lives, the reasons to fight for something greater than oneself. ...

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Both Huxley and Scott use aspects of their style to show the lack of importance, that both societies have on the natural world which does not only include the physical landscape but also what considered natural nowadays like birth, motherhood, family and of course love. ... The language of Shakespeare brings out such emotions as love, ecstasy, ambition, jealousy and suffering. ... Certainly within the novel, man has become a commodities and he has no longer become as a result of sexual relations but rather scientifically controlled test tube breeding. ...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate