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Imagine living in a world without mothers and fathers, without the love given to friends and received from family, a place full of nameless, faceless human clones. This is the society depicted in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. In this futuristic novel, Huxley describes several reasons behind the dehumanization of the human race. For example, the absence of spirituality and family, the infatuation with physical pleasure and the strong influence of technology are the main factors in connection with the utopians' loss of human emotion. In contrast to Brave New World, John Fowles' The Collector presents a different reason for his character's lack of emotion. In the novel, Frederick Clegg is the story's anti-hero whose "collector mentality" deems him unable to connect with society and truly feel human sentiments. Although the two novels portray a different set of circumstances, they both ultimately lead to the loss of human emotion and individuality.
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