Brave new World, by Huxley. Portrays a society which is superficially a perfect world

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…see that life will become meaningless. In comparison to 1984, Brave New World makes the technology less obvious to the members of the society themselves. The characters in Brave New World participate willingly in their manipulation by the government. They happily take the wonder drug Soma, 'the wonder drug.' In contrast, in 1984 the people seem to sense they are being controlled by Big Brother, but here the domination is imposed on them by the government.