I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. A whisper box says to the sleeping children, “Alpha children wear grey. The government teaches the children to be happy with there placement in the cast system. The adults would play a recording of the target idea over and over while the children slept. The adults in Brave New World created a very powerful way to teach their children to believe the ideals they wished them to. In the Brave New World the children are brainwashed from the moment they are able to comprehend speech. The children in both Brave New World and 1984 are taught their belief systems by their government, but the children who live in 1984 are much more of a danger to those living in their society. Both governments went about gaining their power in slightly different ways, but each method was very powerful. Both governments figured out that if they could control the children they would control the future. The governments in both books realized that the power lies within the kids. Children in many stories are depicted as small and insignificant, but in 1984 and Brave New World they are much more.
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