Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel that has been banned due to its dangerous content. The novel encourages people to adopt a lifestyle of drugs, isolation, and polygamy. It urges people to have a negative attitude toward their family and have repressive tolerance. It displays these things in a positive light and can prove to easily manipulate weak minded people into believing the ideas are accurate. The amount of drug use, isolation,the negative attitude toward family, polygamy, and repressive tolerance leads to only one conclusion. The novel Brave New World should be banned. Drug use is repeatedly portrayed in this novel as a morally correct action in society. Soma is the drug the citizens used this society use to escape
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Having sex with someone is not an intimate affair, but more like trying a new food. Instant gratification is also a major concept in this book. The citizens are used to getting whatever they want as soon as they want. They have sex with people the first time they go out with them. This is repeatedly shown through Lenina’s relationship with both Bernard and John. She is surprised and confused when both refused to have sex with her on their first outing. She doesn’t understand the concept of waiting to have sex. To talk to your partner and take it slow. This idea is engrained in all the citizens of this society. Polygamy is wrongly encouraged in this …show more content…
In Brave New World, the government conditions the citizens to fit right into their social status. They are specifically designed for that status so people don’t even realize they are being suppressed. Examples of this theme are in the following quotes. ‘"And if you were an Epsilon," said Henry, "your conditioning would have you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha’" (Huxley 50). "’We condition them to thrive on heat,’ concluded Mr. Foster. ‘Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it’" (Huxley 16). This means that the citizens are conditioned to love their social status and hate all the
Having sex with someone is not an intimate affair, but more like trying a new food. Instant gratification is also a major concept in this book. The citizens are used to getting whatever they want as soon as they want. They have sex with people the first time they go out with them. This is repeatedly shown through Lenina’s relationship with both Bernard and John. She is surprised and confused when both refused to have sex with her on their first outing. She doesn’t understand the concept of waiting to have sex. To talk to your partner and take it slow. This idea is engrained in all the citizens of this society. Polygamy is wrongly encouraged in this …show more content…
In Brave New World, the government conditions the citizens to fit right into their social status. They are specifically designed for that status so people don’t even realize they are being suppressed. Examples of this theme are in the following quotes. ‘"And if you were an Epsilon," said Henry, "your conditioning would have you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha’" (Huxley 50). "’We condition them to thrive on heat,’ concluded Mr. Foster. ‘Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it’" (Huxley 16). This means that the citizens are conditioned to love their social status and hate all the