My relationship with power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need someone to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave (Arnold Schwarzenegger). I am comparing and contrasting 2 different characters from 2 different books, Mustapha Mond from Brave New World and Captain Beatty from Fahrenheit 451. These 2 books are very similar and different in many ways. Both are similar because of the power or strength they have over people and the way they brainwash them. Captain Beatty somehow convinces people to believe that the books contain unpleasant and contradictory facts and opinions that should be destroyed. But there were just a few people who thought differently. Then there is Mustapha Mond who is the leader/controller of the world state. The society there is very disturbing and unusual. Mustapha creates stability in London and makes them control other people. His puppets instruct society/people in their sleep with their voices that tend to brainwash, controlling forces in Brave New World, from youth-relaxing auditory hypnopedia to synthetic music boxes to the disembodied voice used for calming the revolt in Chapter Fifteen. Since Mustapha is a world controller, it makes sense that he personally embodies one of the key instruments of control. They both gain a lot of knowledge that they don't want others to get a hold of because it could be a terrible outcome, as since the world's past history and much of the knowledge of the books must be kept secret from the rest of the world. If the people there somehow discovered the history of the world, they would rebel against Mustapha Mond and Captain Beatty. But I don't think they'll ever get to that point. If anything... halfway through the paper... before we understand what happened, Bernard got worse. Suddenly our hero is a high-society blackmailer with no pride and even less honor. Luckily we have John, who is the antagonist and who steps in to fill the antagonist vacancy. He is principled, courageous, compassionate and, most importantly, incredibly attractive, the book says. All in all I think these two books were all interesting in their own way. Both include a great deal of similarities and differences between books, characters, and plot. I am happy that I had the opportunity to read and write about these two books because I gained a lot of knowledge and understanding of the books and what the 2 authors were trying to say about our future. The authors are both right and wrong about our future, too bad they aren't alive to see the outcome of our world.