Find out how, why, or in what way is freedom relevant in both of these worlds
Freedom. What would you say if you were arrested one night just for walking? What if you were going to be banished to Iceland for thinking a little differently than everyone else? Iceland would be over populated; but in the case of the stories I am going to compare, no one has freedom. In this essay I am going to tell you how the theme of freedom is relevant in both A Brave New World and The Pedestrian.
In the Pedestrian, Ray Bradbury writes about a society where the government controls everyone by highly suggesting they have a TV. The protagonist, Leonard Mead, doesn't have a TV and goes for walks in the middle of the night. He is caught and whisked away to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.
In A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a world, where you are controlled from the very beginning. From the moment you are 'born' with your 91 clones, the government decides what you are going to do with your life. You are then conditioned to love what you have been fated to do.
These stories have a few things in common, but the major thing is freedom, or rather the lack of freedom. Leonard Mead knows that he isn't free, but the people in A Brave New World, think they are.
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