...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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...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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...Aubrey Noon Mr. Evans English 11 23 October 12 Breaking a Social Norm In the novel Brave New World, the government is in control of everything. All individuals of a class are expected to act the same. Even though there are four different classes in the society (ADV PHRASE), they are all taught to act like others in their society. Also students in modern high school have a way of acting the same. As an example, the way people are judged when they are pregnant at a young age or any age at all is similar in both examples. Fitting in is a crucial standard for all society’s in today’s world, as well in the Brave New World society. In both Brave New World and high school society, being different is seen as a violation of preconceived expectations. The government in Brave New World (ADV PHRASE) controls how people are raised from the time they are born. Each class is raised a certain way and the people in the class accept who they are and what that means without exception. Becoming part of another class never enters their mind. For example, a women having her own children in the Brave New World society is completely unacceptable. The government makes the children and even though women could have children, the expectation is that they do not. If a student in high school (ADV PHRASE) was going to have a baby, the classmates of that student would judge her negatively just like the people of the World State Society. The connection that is made between these two comparisons is that getting...
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...In the novel Brave New World John the savage gets cut off from home “The Savage Reservation” in New Mexico. John is cut off from home because he is different from the other members of the reservation. John is born of a woman who was a member of the “New World”. She came from a utopian society that unlike the Indians from the reservation have differents beliefs and values. The difference in beliefs and values between the indians and Linda is what sets apart John from his home and the members of the reservation. Although John follows the moral values form the indian reservation he is unable to fit in. John has ultimately become an outsider not just in the savage reservation, but in the New World. John becomes isolated from the reservation and...
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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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...the time. It was controversial through some literature authors who were against such text. Brave New World is set in future-London 632 A.F. (After Henry Ford). The society is set as utopian times. Humans are produced in assembly lines and are manipulated right away after being born. They develop a hatred for books and flowers or anything that is ordinary in our world that brings...
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...Savannah Morris Faris Honors English IV 09 January 2015 A Maggot-Less World A Utopia is an imaginative place that is beautiful in every aspect and is the author’s perspective of a “perfect society”. Aldous Huxley creates this Utopia in his novel, “Island”. He creates a perfect society with limited technology and a union of all people to work together. Huxley creates this Utopia during a time period of corruption and new discoveries. As the nation enters the literary time period of “the beat period”, Huxley's unconscious idea of a Utopian society is displayed uncensored in “Island” as opposed to “Brave New World” and he provides his personal solution to the world’s problems. In “Island” by Aldous Huxley the main character, Will Farnaby,...
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...A hero is a person who is extremely admired by many people for helping, saving, and succeeding.They are brave, and show great courage.A hero has a positive mind and a positive spirit.A hero is someone who wants to make the world a better place, also to make it safer.A hero is someone who does something you look up to.A hero is is someone that is brave enough to stand up and do whats needed.In the book called “The Outsiders” there are many ways that the characters Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas Winston also known as Dally are heros. Ponyboy Curtis is a 14 year old boy whose parents died in a car wreck.He has long light brown hair and greenish-gray eyes.He’s Smart, All A’s, a loner, he’s shy, he doesn't use his head, and he likes Football and watching movies alone.He’s also a greaser from the east side....
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...If Brave New World was Aldous Huxley's technocratic purgatory, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four describes a hell beyond Huxley's worst fears. Compare and contrast the two novels as visions of a future that has gone dramatically wrong. Brave New World and 1984 were both written by men who had experienced war on the grand scale of the twentieth century. Disillusioned and alarmed by what they saw in society, each author produced a powerful satire and an alarming vision of future possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for...
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...from this avantgarde Créateur as this is exactly what she is - a Créateur, although let’s not take away the kudos from her many collaborators who season after season help her invent and develop new and strange ways of making a frock. In fact it would be like taking away Lesage from Chanel or Dior but one might argue that it wasn’t this craftsmanship that is part of the backbone of what Couture is all about and was shown to the select few who may actually afford to be able to buy it and to the press and critics who would either love it or at the very worst not understand it. But then we all know that Haute Couture is not about who can afford to buy and wear it, it’s about the €240 billion global industry that revolves around selling the bag, the shoe, the make-up or the perfume that goes with it, which at this point in time, Iris does not have. It is interesting that the Chambre Syndicale invited van Herpen to show her exceptional frocks. To the traditionalist or the outsider they may not tick all the ‘Haute Couture’ boxes but look carefully, they do and the Dutchwoman has added a few more boxes of her own. Are they original ? tick, custom fitted ? tick, high quality, expensive fabrics, materials, time consuming, beautifully executed techniques, tick, tick, tick and more. Will her new boxes be added to the already ‘protected name’ that can only be used by houses that meet a certain well defined standard or will there be a newly created 21st century definition of Haute Couture...
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...Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is about an advanced society that relies on conditioning its citizens in order to achieve stability and constant universal happiness. When an outsider visits the “World State”, he reveals that true happiness is impossible without passion and individualism. The residents are conditioned from conception through manipulation of the eggs, hypnopaedic suggestion, and laboratory experiences which prepare them to grow up to be constantly happy and eager to fuel the economy. Conditioning plays a large role in depriving people of their free will. Individualism is removed entirely because the World Controllers have eliminated access to new scientific studies, art, and religious practices. Ultimately, conditioning along with the removal of these things lead to a sense of false happiness for citizens. Before people are released to be a part of society, they are conditioned in their sleep through hypnopaedia. This sleep teaching technique takes away people’s free will because the repetitions force the listener to adhere to the World State’s morals and values without their consent. For example when Bernard mentioned “arresting [his] impulses” (Huxley 81), Lenina instinctively spits out a hypnopaedic...
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...In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx’s character is established as an individual seeking social acceptance, yet one who is also confined by society’s expectations. Though he resists society initially, underlying his strained unorthodox ways and perceived rejection of social norms is a man who ultimately needs to be accepted. Huxley shows readers the multifaceted sides of Bernard’s journey towards acceptance, while also creating a utopia-like world. Initially, Bernard is a character who is dissatisfied with himself. It was being rejected that forged Bernard’s resentment towards society - this is apparent in his hypocrisy at the Solidarity Service and how he goes out of his way to unorthodox in chapter seven, when they arrive at...
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...Assessment Task 1 – Year 11 Unit 2B Name: joseph lee 2B Type: Outcomes: Duration Weighting Short answer responses to Jasper Jones 1. Speaking and Listening 3. Reading 2. Viewing 4. Writing Completed in Class – Two Periods 10% of unit total Assessment Task 1 For this task, you will write short responses (Maximum of 200 words) for each of the following questions on Jasper Jones: You may use the text as a resource in completing this task. 1. Discuss the use of imagery in the novel. 2. Discuss the theme of ‘growing up’ as it is developed in the novel? 3. Having considered the representation of gender in other texts, discuss how gender is represented in Jasper Jones. Choose at least two characters to focus on in your discussion. 4. Discuss the notion of ‘the other’ as it relates to the novel, Jasper Jones? Consider specific characters in your answer. 5. Explain how the film, To Kill a Mockingbird and/or Mississippi Burning, has contributed to your understanding of Jasper Jones Process o Read the novel carefully. o Plan your answer to each question. o Answer each question in paragraph form (Maximum length 200 words). Note: some questions may require answers more than one paragraph in length. o Check your answers for accuracy, spelling errors and grammatical errors. What needs to be included in your portfolio? Due dates £ £ Any notes you have made Final copy (typed or written and completed at home) /100 Thursday Week 3, Term 3 Final Mark: Teacher’s Comment: There...
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...Nallely Aguilar Ms. Rogers 18 April 2017 Honors World Literature Brave New World By Aldous Huxley "The principle of mass production at last applied to biology"( chapter 1). In this scene the Director of Hatcheries is leading a group of students on a tour of the facility. The Hatchery biologically mass-produces its citizens to populate the area of Western Europe . The tour starts off in the Fertilizing Room, where eggs donated by women are kept in test tubes until fertilized and divided into five castes—Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. This quote symbolizes that the narrator takes on a satiric tone, as he gives the description of the lower three castes after the Director explains the advantages of the Bokanovsky Process. I feel...
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...a bit of a stretch. One can’t say that a high school student, or at least the vast majority, doesn’t let their peers’ actions and opinions play some role in their perception of how to act according to the social “norm”. Fear of being considered an outsider and social stigmatization drives many people to evaluate, and reevaluate every decision they consider. Often times we let these fears overwhelm us and inhibit any further progression beyond fantasizing how the scenario would play out. Even though there are a vast number of social dynamics that influence an individual’s actions and perception, we must recognize that these interactions are a part of a social structure that can be challenged, if we dare to explore the unknown. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot uses a dramatic monologue to address and illustrate many common issues revolving around social perceptions. One such issue is a common theme addressed at the very beginning and mentioned throughout this literary work—reputation. The Epigraph depicts a conversation between Dante and Guido concerning the reasons for Guido’s plummet to the lowest depths of hell. Guido wouldn’t have told Dante of his shortcomings if he had known Dante would return to the world to soil his reputation. Even in death Guido is worried about what people will think of him; showing that his perception of himself was based on other’s opinions rather than the rectitude of his actions. I’d rather commit an...
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