What are the most striking ways in which the societies of 1984 and Brave New World differ/relate?

Another
contrast in society is the way in which it is controlled.

In
people are controlled through fear and repression. People are punished if
they get out of line. There is no sanctuary free from this - think ofandin their
"room" ; the paperweight and its fragility show how this is just an illusion of
escape.

In Brave New World people are manufactured to
adhere to a certain norm. Isn't this a scary forewarning of where we are going with genetic
engineering? Also the negation of human worth by using embryonic souche cells... There is no
easy ethical answer here, but these are questions which should be raised.

In
Brave New World the masses are controlled through gratification rather than
repression. The "feelies" - we are getting closer and closer there with 3-D films,
sensorial feedback in video games, and even attempts to reproduce and transmit smells.