...novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx, John The Savage, and Lenina Crowne are not capable of being happy in the New World State because they are forbidden to be with the person they love and they want individual freedom. What is happiness? Happiness is a state of being happy. Being happy means feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.In the New World State the government gives the people a drug called soma. Soma is a drug that helps prevents the people in the New World State from speaking freely. Bernard is not capable of being happy because Bernard wants more than just sex from her. John The Savage developed feelings for her. Lenina likes both men but doesn’t want to be in a serious relationship...
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...want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin” (Huxley 240). Brave New World is a novel about a dystopian society that uses power, drugs, and conditioning to control its population. Embryos are genetically modified so that they fit into a certain social caste, and the lower caste embryos are put through the Bokanovsky’s Process to make thousands of identical twins. Citizens of the society are deprived of basic human feelings, such as, love, passion, and freedom. Within the novel, unorthodox characters are introduced seeking a purpose in life. One of those characters is John the Savage. Throughout Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, John the Savage proves that he is physically,...
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...In the novel Brave New World Aldous Huxley depicts a society where legal hallucinogens keep people happy and the government has disregarded common social norms in favor of a peaceful community. Huxley uses the title Brave New World ironically to emphasize the lack of bravery within the fictional society and the behavior of the main characters within his book. Conditioned to fear deep emotions, individuals within the civilized communities quickly learn “when the individual feels the community reels.” (94, Huxley) Consequently, the people of this society naturally avoid deep thought, alone time, and use pills to increase their happiness. There is not anything brave about this society, not when its member refuse to suffer through mild discomfort without the help of the drugs provided to them by the government. However,...
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...power. In Brave New World, it is shown that power often ends up in the hands of those who do not stop for anything for the sake of progress. In their desire to create a utopia, they end up creating a dystopia in which society ends up in a condition as confused and deprived as that of time before the present. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, customs from the past are juxtaposed with those of the World State in order to provide the bleak interpretation that people will end...
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...Brave New World is a novel written by Alduous Huxley in 1931. This novel takes place in a New World where humans are made from tubes, separated into castes, and conditioned to fit specific areas of society. There is no such thing as mothers, fathers, children, or family. All of the essential human needs are fabricated through social experiences. The people are used as workers to serve the community. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. The director of the center is giving a tour to young students about how humans are created. The director informs the students that human beings are no longer produce living offspring, instead they are developed from test tubes. This gives the opportunity to start a new system...
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...In chapter eleven of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, one of the main characters, John the Savage finally gets to visit London after being raised on the Reservation; only to be disappointed by the lack of individuality. John’s initial reaction of London before leaving the reservation is of praise: “O brave new world” (121); however, after viewing the internal employee workings of a small London factory John also says “O brave new world…” (139) but following his statement he vomits. This event highlights and foreshadows the importance of John as a character to show the bad in a supposedly utopian society, and relates to the novel’s overall theme of oppression of individual differences. A close analysis of the incident and the details used by Huxley to describe this event reveals that John’s “violent retching” (139) reaction to the Brave New world indicates the individuality of John allowing Huxley through this character to draw attention to the downfalls of the Utopian society....
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...Brave New World Brave New World is a form of utopian literature. It’s an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. The novel takes place in 632 A.F. (After Ford, the god of the New World). It takes place in a time where man is desperate for beliefs (and structures also a relief from pain.). All civilization has been destroyed by a great war. Then there is another war, the Nine Years War, which begins the era of Ford, ensuring stability through dictatorship. The society in Brave new world is based on a strict caste system. The highest of the five castes enjoy easier and better tasks, while the lower ones perform unskilled and all the dirty jobs. Ten Controllers hold all the power in this new world and peace is maintained by training infant minds and by dulling down adults with the tranquilizer, “soma.” The population is further controlled through scientific methods; marriage is forbidden, and children are not born but produced in an embryo factory THEME: Science and its influences on humanity is the major theme of Brave New World. The novel depicts a new society where human beings have been stripped of individual freedom, programmed to certain types of behavior, and conditioned to respond in scientific ways to specific stimulants. All traces of the old order have been eliminated. No longer are human emotions or relationships important. Infants are created in...
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...In the novel “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays his character's heroic and villainous traits by exaggerating their personalities. Huxley assigns unique traits to each character and amplifies that trait. This is because in the futuristic dystopia of the novel, there are only extreme versions of society. There is the gated community in which individuals are grossly infatuated with themselves and whatever will make them happy, while behind the gated community people act like animals. Being the only person born naturally, John the Savage represents the hero who is meshing his two worlds together. When Lenina Crowne made a vast advance towards him, the Savage “retreated in terror” and even “flapp[ed] his hands at her as though he were trying to scare away some intruding and dangerous animal” (13.193). This is significant because in the dystopia, sex is seen as just another act which means nothing and marriage is frowned upon; however, John believes the opposite. Before Crowne throws herself on him, John said he wants “to show [he] was worthy of [her]” and talks of marrying Lenina...
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...Brave New World Lately there has been a lot of buzz in the media about the oppressive regime that President Obama is running. The government of Brave New World is miles ahead of where our government is at. In Brave New World Huxley drawls a comparison between civilized society and un-civilized society by using themes of God and emotion. This story compares our everyday life to a bran new life where the government has molded people to be exactly what they want. This novel is very interesting but is written in a very harsh and depressing tone. In Brave New World everyday life as we know it is completely changed. humans are taught to hate books, flowers, and the wilderness. Sex is considered a great thing that everyone must do as this quote explains “Everyone belongs to everyone else .” Being exclusive with someone is considered a horrible thing, you must be with more than one person at a time. People are not taught how the world used to be, they have no idea about parents, families, and making your own choices. For this novel alone time is golden time. As disturbing as this novel is could it be reality? Huxley wrote Brave New World how he sees our society to be is real life. He feels our government is too controlling over our everyday life. In this novel I got the impression that Huxley feels our government tells us what to and what not to do or like. In this novel there is only one person who has actually grown up in what our opinion of normal is, and that is the savage...
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...enslaved. All things considered, soma is a sedative that permits its clients to be controlled. Brave New World appears to contend that Christianity burdens similarly. It controls through easement. It offers solace, yet to the detriment of uniqueness. This book has many themes but this quote demonstrates how science affects people and the choices that authority make. "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany...
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...The Life and Death of Aldous Huxley Through examining Brave New World, one can infer that Aldous Huxley’s fears of the demise of today’s consumer society, rise in use of technology, and reliance on religion entitled him to express his concerns. From his experiences in Italy under an authoritarian government headed by Mussolini to his late life in California, Mr. Huxley always, “played the role of a critical observer of accepted tradition, customs, social norms, and ideals.”(www.egs.com) Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894 in Godalming in southern England into a very successful and scientific family. His father was a school teacher/writer, two of his three brothers were scientist, and his grandfather had been nicknamed “Darwin’s Bulldog”...
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...There are many things in Brave New World, that would be considered a bottled pleasure. Soma, for example is the mainstream pleasure that they have readily available to them. The way they approach and handle relationships is another pleasure, that is handed to everyone. Brave New World’s civilizations are not taught history of everyone before them, saving them from knowing all the things people had done before their times. Soma, a small little tablet, with affects close to modern day drugs like LSD, but without the side effects, "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." It gave them an escape you could call it, they took it and could be “gone” for days "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in...
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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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...contradicting world known as a dystopia. The dystopian future introduced in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, controls societal values for ultimate social stability. John the Savage, being raised in the Savage Reservation as opposed to the World State, introduces an unconventional perspective on society. John, rejected from Savage society, draws his beliefs from the Shakespearean era after reading William Shakespeare’s plays. Because of his moral differences, John does not agree with life at the World State. One evening, when Lenina decides to profess her love for John, things go awry. While Lenina is attempting to seduce John, he instead lashes out angrily and assaults her. As the novel progresses, John seems to become increasingly agitated with society, further highlighting his frustration with this new world. As his frustration increases John rebels more, causing his stay in the World State to come to an abrupt end. John’s violent behavior towards Lenina reveals the differences in moral values, which further emphasizes John’s discontent for the World State. Lenina stands for everything John disagrees with; lust and conformity. She acts as a prime example of the societal values, however, the beginning of the novel suggests she may slowly be drifting from her conditioning. Lenina’s friend Fanny reminds Lenina of how everyone belongs to everyone else, and how relationships are not monogamous. Later, Lenina realizes “[John’s] the one [she] wants” (Huxley 127). Lenina’s new emotions...
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...Zhang 1 ! Brave New World －the Nightmare of Dystopian Society The society in Brave New World is full of peace and harmony seemingly, but the inside of that is a dystopian society which is full of maladies that cannot be controlled. The inundation of human science and technology improves people’s living standard, but essentially, it covers up the weak and empty human’s mental world. The novel Brave New World was written in 1931 by the famous English novelist, Aldous Leonard Huxley. It describes a futuristic society that in 632 A.F in London, people are controlled by the World State, a new world which has a slogan “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”. The marriage is forbidden, and babies are produced in an embryo factory. At the same time, the society is formed by five castes. Different levels people have their own different jobs. In the novel Brave New World, the World State reflects a dystopian society because it embraces an exploitative caste system, is morally bankrupt, and the citizens lack freedom and human dignity. The first reason why the World State reflects a dystopian society is because it embraces an exploitative caste system. In the new world, it has an extremely severe class system, which people are divided into five different castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. All of them are responsible to a different part of jobs in the state, like brain workers, labors, creators, and leaders. The Alpha embryos will become the leaders and thinkers, but the Epsilon embryos...
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