Aldous Huxley's Brave New World has a similar theme to George Orwell's 1984. The theme is that the government has control over their society by brainwashing them. The difference is that 1984 does brainwashing with torture and fear and Brave New World does it by making them happy by allowing them to have everything they want. Brainwashing is persuasion through propaganda or salesmanship (Webster). The controller does exactly that in the book. Most people would probably choose Brave New World to live in over the other novel, but digging deeper into the novel we realize that this world is not good. People might act to be happy, but that's because the government trains them to think this way before they're even born. Our society also experiences a lot of brainwashing from our government and corporations. Even though this book was written long before our time, the author was a good predictor of what it could become in the future. However, I don't think it reached the extreme point of Brave New World. Three areas where people are brainwashed are the military, advertising, and the news. Brainwashing is done throughout the book of Brave New World to control society and make it believe that everything is for the best. Brave New World begins in a developing human factory. The director walks around a group of people showing them how human beings are made. They have changed their society by making everyone born without parents. People shudder at the words mother and father. They make test tube babies and develop them the way they want them to be. The government, called the controller, thus ensures that its society has no real connection to anyone. They don't want them to experience... middle of paper... that their people don't fear death and don't even care about it at all. Brainwashing works in Brave New World just as it works in today's society. Their brainwashing prevents their society from reacting and always makes them calm. Ultimately this is the clever way for a government to control their society because everyone thinks they are happy because they have been brainwashed to be so. Our society is also brainwashed every day. As soon as you turn on the radio or TV, propaganda and lies pour through the speakers. It is very easy to be brainwashed today and one day the government will use this to their advantage, just like in Brave New World. Works Cited Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print.Orwell, George. 1984. Centennial Edition. New York: Plume, 2003. Print.