Dystopia In Brave New World Essay

In the Brave New World Huxley presents us with a Utopia and Dystopia also known as the World State and the Savage Reservation. We learn that these two societies are very different with how they view love, religion, nature, and more. The Savage Reservation does everything it can to contradict the World State. Unlike the World State the Reservation is seen as uncivilized and when Lenina and Bernard visit there Lenina is overwhelmed by the smell and grime. In that dystopia birth and death are present, while in the World State people with old age were wiped out, and the thought of aging isn’t even a concept. Birth is a very important concept in this estate for the fact that families are able to mold in the Reservation. In the World State there is no mother or father, just machines and rules. Babies are made in machines; Epsilons are made to be identical in a process called the Bokanovsky Process. There is no nurture, the “egg” or “embryo” is subjected to stress and undergo treatments such as oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment to ensure the lower of their intelligence for the good of society. The book states that “[b]okanovsky’s process is one of the major instruments of social stability” (Huxley 7). The price is individuality; this process …show more content…
It is a drug that grants instant satisfaction, stripping people of critical thinking. In fact people in the World State are created to not have independent thoughts; Soma also strips them from conflict but at the price of not being a fully conscious person. “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison” (Huxley 211) these are the words the Savage yells in hopes that it would lead to a rebel against Soma. However it was done in spite because no one listens and continues because people on Soma don’t understand their own undermined, they have no critical thinking skills to solve this problem or to even realize there is a