What Are The Similarities Between The Tempest And Brave New World

Huxley's Brave New World is a sarcastic vision of a future that is bleak and unwelcoming. The science fiction novel is dystopian in tone and subject matter. The title is drawn from the Shakespearean play The Tempest but instead of referring to a peaceful island paradise it now describes a nightmarish place of stultifying uniformity and overbearing control. Paradox and irony are the major tools used throughout the novel to highlight the negative impact of excessive scientific and technological progress on man and his relationship with the natural world.

The most obvious similarity is the way both novels treat both the past and language. The past is probably the more obvious. "Who controls the present controls the past: who controls the past

It seems to show a double meaning with ambiguity by giving it a sinister approach. However, the use of ‘Big Brother’ makes it familial definition as family are supposed to look after you and also watch over you. A figure like Big Brother is not seen in Brave New World however, the use of Soma is similar. The people of Brave New World are kept chilled with a drug called soma. Described as having “all of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol [and] none of their defects”, it’s a psychoactive drug that induces feelings of calm, thus negating any need to discover and potentially tackle the true source of someone’s sorrow. Soma subdues all “malice and bad tempers”. Modern society uses antidepressants in a disturbingly similar way. We even have created a soma. Soma is a muscle relaxer that works by blocking pain sensations between the nerves and the brain. Soma controls everyone in Brave New World whereas 1984 is controlled by ‘Big Brother’ and the ‘Thought Police’. In today’s society, Joseph Stalin is ‘Big Brother’, in the Soviet Union, after the conclusion of Civil War; Stalin took over the country and began executing any people who were not in alignment with the goals of the