Distopia in Brave New World The purpose of a Utopian society is to create an environment where everyone is happy, disease does not exist, and anger and sadness are extinct. ... Aldous Huxley's Brave New World leads to the realization that this is not what the human soul really craves. ... These governments believed that having total power would engender a perfect society. ... Although the government's control over and use of technological advances, conformity, and lack of personal freedom contribute to the success of a Utopian society, these aspects are also the reason for its ulti...

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The Handmaids Tale In the Novel "The Handmaids Tale" the narrator, Offred, guides us through a futuristic, post American, society governed by theocracy. ... This quote has a number of meanings, both in the immediate context, about Gilead, and society as a whole. ... Because the body operates in a very democratic fashion, the "democracy of bodily functions" is a sharp contrast to how things work in a totalitarian society. ... Because everything which comes into the body is diffused into the blood, every cell in the body receives an equal share (in this aspect at least, the body also beco...

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