Furthermore, both of these dystopian treatises portray a society that censors both thoughts and literature. ... Mond's grave tone shows that although art and literature are desirable elements in society, they are elements of instability. ... The censoring of literature promotes the control of thoughts by providing documentation of present events and the destruction of past records. ...

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Society is stagnant because those smart enough to develop new technology, medicine, and literature have been permanently handicapped, exiled, or killed. ... While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist "one who creates a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). ...

• Word Count: 1344
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate