...Would people be able to achieve a perfect society or should government be the one who controls everyone’s happiness? In Brave New World, Huxley proposes that a perfect society can be achieved through control, however, readers come to the understanding that the characters in the book have no individuality and cannot obtain a perfect society through the government’s control. The use of soma, a government supplied drug, is a factor that adds to creating virtual peace and happiness for the characters in the book. The government trying to control everyone to think the same through the use of eugenic science and soma, is what creates a utopian society and adds to no one being individual in the book Brave New World. Discrimination on Individuality...
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...Brave new world Brave New World is an example of a perfect world. The people of this Utopic society live in a world that is free social-economic challenges. In totalitarianism society most spheres of life are controlled. For instance, population, social class, and even intellectual capability. History is directed and controlled to suit the aspiration of the state. However, a critical analysis of totalitarianism nothing of the sort. The application of specific social orientation and the use anti-depressant drugs have significantly solved the challenges faced by people in modern societies. It is prudent to note that poverty, class rivalry and overpopulation is perfected at the costs of individuality and with that their humanity. The people depicted by "brave new world" are oriented towards the needs of the state. Individual expression is squashed since everybody is conditioned to think alike. Brave New World is a book presenting a future society that looks more realistic and less brave at people’s social values turn more materialistic and as the faith in God diminishes slowly as is it replaced by technology. This book is meant to enhance human awareness of the terrifying future. The diversity of social operation within a society is controlled by the creation of social class. In order to maintain social stability, totalitarianism system uses various techniques of social control. After birth each person is taken through a process of conditioning...
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...Brave New World by Aldous Huxley May 2012 Brave New World Brave New World idolizes the perfect future. This utopia seems infallible, but the pieces do not fit together. In this world, people take the easy way out, avoiding pain, and have a way of thinking that is not compatible with human nature. Life, altogether, has no meaning. There is nothing worth living for; no family, loved ones, or even God. Is this truly utopia? In fact, it is a chaotic society in which everyone thinks they are happy. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled and rewritten to meet the needs of the party. Stability must be maintained at all costs. In this dystopian novel, Brave New World, presents a horrifying view of a possible future in which society has become a prisoner of the very technology it hoped would save us. In Brave New World Huxley's distortion of technology, religion, and family values, is much more effective than his use of literary realism found in his depiction of a savage reservation. Through his use of distortion Huxley tells a classic tale with the theme of, be careful what you wish for because it may not truly be what you wanted. Huxley effectively uses distortion in Brave New World through his depiction of social values of the future. For example, when...
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...In the world of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, everyone is happy, society is stable and peaceful, and the world seems like a utopia. Every person enjoys life and faces no problems or deals with hardships. In reality, the civilization is stable, but only because everyone chooses not to deal with their problems and escapes multiple displeasures through different means. Happiness is prioritized over everything else and everyone chooses to remain happy instead of facing truth or other conflicts. The civilization in Brave New World thus, is more dystopian than utopian. The major detrimental effects of this society are its use of escapism as an everyday application, and how that it deteriorates the psychology of each person. The detrimental effects of this society apply to the real world....
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...Both Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 predict similar totalitarian government styles for the near future of mankind. These novels portray excessive control and oppression from the government to their people. The protagonists from these novels, John the Savage (John) and Winston Smith, are outcasts from the totalitarian society. Their contributions to these books offer incredible insight to the horrors and seemingly helpless rebellion against an oppressive world state. John is Huxley’s protagonist who enters the story a little later than in normal stories in Brave New World. John was born in a exiled reserve outside of the mainstream world state. He grew up fully acknowledging that he is an outcast and shows that he wants to embrace...
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...Everyone dreams with the ridiculous idea of having a perfect world without problems, without suffer, without greed, and even with immortality, but what if we found what we were looking for, would it still be perfect. Many talented writers attempted to illustrate the opposite idea that people had about a perfect world because it would create sense into a broken society that just needed a little healing. Before it could be too late, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World with dense dystopian characteristics that certainly painted some sort of dark image in the minds of readers about the type of world that they would face in a distant future. Dystopian novels essentially illustrate a futuristic world that seems perfect in the eyes of others, but...
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...Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New world is a dystopian novel written in England in 1931 and published in 1932 during the Modernism literary period. The setting of the novel is in London and New Mexico ruled under an imagined future one-world government called the World State. The World State of Brave New World is a totalitarian dystopia that uses technology to, deceive its citizens into loving their slavery. Dystopia is a society, in this case the World State, that is an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dystopian novel due to the rise of technology and science in the 1930s, focusing on the totalitarianism evils (meaning centralized or dictatorial). Huxley imagined a future of a totalitarian state where there is no such thing as freedom of anything and happiness was forced through manipulation, called conditioning in the novel. When Huxley wrote Brave New World, it was just a little over a decade since World War I. During this time, totalitarian states were popping up in the Soviet Union and Fascist parties were gaining power in Europe. Also, there were advancements in science, technology, and the relationship between the two as the world became more industrialized. Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to a well-known family of scientists, writers, and teachers deeply rooted in England’s literary...
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...Scientism and Technocracy in Brave New World Introduction Brave New World is well recognized as a dystopian novel, in which Aldous Huxley satirically criticized scientism and technocracy. In this new world, science and technology was paramount. It dominated all aspects of human life. Humans were mass produced in laboratory and factories; human moral value were moulded by sleeping teaching; human emotions were controlled by soma. The overuse of science and technology reduced humans to one-dimensional man without individuality and the ability of critical thinking. Human beings were used as tools for political and economic purposes. The thesis is to study scientism and technocracy, the "improper application of science to human life", from two aspects: the interference with human physical life and the elimination of human spiritual life. Scientism and Technocracy Scientism, according to Zhu Wang, is "an excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and technology to solve all human problems including spiritual crisis" (194). It is "the authority of natural sciences, dominating all aspects of human life and rejecting religion, philosophy, art, and literature" (194). In Brave New World, Huxley depicted a dystopian society to condemn the excessive use of science and technology which eliminated human individuality and civilization. He pointed out in his Complete Essays Vol.6 that science was "the reduction of multiplicity to unity….the theoretical reduction...
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...V Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World creates an illusion of a society in which civilians believe they are truly happy. The government uses different methods to alter the mindset of the people in the novel. By removing specific attributes from people’s lives, such as individuality, artistic representation and self-awareness; Huxley demonstrates the psychological hold the government has on civilization. By offering comfort whilst removing individuality it was a perfect tool that the government took advantage of in order to distract the population. Brave New World takes place in a utopian society. In this society it is imperative that the government instills a system in which individuality is nonexistent and the undoing of mother nature must occur. The implementation of these conditions is what is perceived to give people a sense of a “happily ever after” life. This Is done to maintain a sense of stability in society. Stability is the main goal for the leaders in the society, if everybody is the same and stability is maintained it is easier for people to be controlled. In the novel Watts states “…. tragedy does not Daramola 2 arise from...
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...Communism. This word is seen as an evil in American society, a plague that must be eradicated. Throughout history, it has struck fear into the American people. Such anxiety can be seen in the film Brave New World (1980), directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The movie was not only an adoption of the text, but also a social commentary of what was occurring at the time. During this period, the Vietnam War was being fought and the United States thought that if Vietnam were to become a communist country, all of Asia would soon follow. The movie was a manifestation of the terror that was sweeping across the nation as people were uncertain whether or not they would wake up tomorrow and see that they are under the control of the Soviet Union. The film illustrates what was happening at the time, and what would happen if the USSR had won the war and the world had fallen under the rule of communism. In Brave New World, everyone had a function from the Epsilons to the Alphas. This is similar to how in a communist system, everyone has a role and serves a purpose, and if this service were not to be met, then those in power would take...
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...dominant theme.” To what extent do ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ depict a dehumanised society? Both Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ certainly deny humanness to the characters in their novels. Kelman defines humanness as having two key attributes, identity and community. Dehumanisation occurs when these are removed from society. It is true that individuality is denied to citizens and although the community remains, it is subverted in order to fit the government ideal. It can therefore be said that dehumanisation occurs as people are denied and identity and the true meaning of community which is the perception that a person is part of an interconnected community of individuals. Dystopian literature serves to critique the current social and political conditions by looking at potential conditions. Both novels were written when the fear of growing totalitarian governments was present. The novels are a prediction of what may happen to society if this power grows worldwide. In 1946, Orwell wrote "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." Around the time Huxley wrote ‘Brave New World’ there had been huge discoveries made in science and technology, Huxley took these and created a dystopia that uses technology to trick citizens into loving their slavery. The governments in both ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ dehumanise people in order to maintain their...
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...Conditioning makes way for Conformity What is one’s individuality composed of? Of what is it forged from? The majority of one’s personality is influenced by hereditary and the environment. The world around us influences us more than people think, more than people should wish for. Everyone grows up, constantly being conditioned by the world around them. For example, people begin to talk the way their friends and co-workers do, using similar diction, phrases, and dialect. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the differentiated hereditary aspect of individuality is completed taken away as the world’s “hatcheries” are able to produce and purposely condition infants to become like everyone else. The government determines what the humans’ lives...
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...Analysing Dystopia in a “Brave New World” The concept of Dystopia in literature is a form of exploring various interpretations of a different world. Specifically, a dystopian text explores a domain in which a society and way of life may seem ideal (Utopia), yet within the text it is later revealed that the society remain mentally unprepared and incapable of sustaining order in their world. Most dystopian texts illustrate a world which has been resulted in the consequence of humanity and this is one of the main reasons it is regularly visited. It is a genre in which the dystopian texts frequently challenge the views and values of their current audiences. This is because they are judged and critiqued on their depiction of scenes and events that breach sensitive moral and ethical issues. What makes the genre so fascinating both to read and write is to remind ourselves of the capabilities of humanity and just how much we can impact a hypothetical world. It is also a way in which we can ponder the extremes we as a society can reach and reflect the possibilities of the very future of the human race. Another reason why the concept intrigues us is because dystopian texts are subconsciously thought to be renditions of hell. With Utopia being the impression of heaven or an ideal world, Dystopia corresponds as the opposite. These ideas are explored in Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian piece “Brave New World” [1932]. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is considered a dystopian text due...
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...Children are central to the establishment of a totalitarian society in both Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. Children are corrupted by the government in both novels. They are controlled and lack freedom. These children are completely opposite from the children in today’s society. In Brave New World, no one raises children anymore and maternity is considered explicit. Children are mass-produced and raised in “Hatcheries and Conditioning Centers.” The Director describes that this center fertilizes a mother's eggs to create babies that develop in bottles using the “Bokanovsky’s Process.” The Director says, “A bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo will grow into a full-sized adult…” (6). After decanting, these babies are mentally conditioned to make them joyful inhabitants of the society who enjoy the work they are assigned to. The people produced belong to either the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, or Epsilons. The Alphas and Betas being the most intellectual, the Gammas and Deltas having no individuality and being capable of doing a single task repetitively, and the Epsilons not being able to...
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...Brave New World Response Essay In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley takes us on a journey through a utopian society, known as the world state. This society allows its citizens to experience no pain, no suffering, and no unhappiness. They achieve these utopian qualities by distributing soma, a drug that is given out on a regular basis to all of World State’s citizens. Soma is used as a cure for everything, keeps the citizens “sane”, and enslaves everyone in the world state. I disagree with the use of soma in this utopian society. I felt very distressed that soma was used to cure everything and anything that could possibly happen to the citizens of world state. Lenina says to Bernard, “I don’t understand anything, why you don’t take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You’d forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you’d be jolly. So jolly” (Huxley 92). The fact that soma was taken to get rid of even the slightest feeling of unhappiness was alarming to me because it is very normal to feel unhappy during some times of your life. Unhappiness is just one of the hundreds of emotions that humans are supposed to feel, these emotions are what make us who we are and without them, what do we become? We would become machines. As great as it may sound to be happy all the time, I think that experiencing other emotions is a part of life that the citizens of world state would never get to fully experience. Moreover, I felt saddened by how the citizens of the world...
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