The author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley incorporates a range of ideas which relate to todays youth. The story involves a outsider in the World State and the juxtaposition between these two conflicting views allows the author to represent different ideas, heavily related to societal conventions. The societal system used in the book is a society containing many troubling aspects in our society and making them the crux of the society allowing the problems to become more emulated.
The idea of does contentment equal happiness is emulated by the Director at the beginning of the novel Representation of this idea is given in the quote ""And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've …show more content…
The representation of the individual (us) in the is represented by John and the latter being the world state. His displays of emotion such as " his yells that brought the head nurse" are obviously abnormal as it caused attention to be placed on him. This abnormality shows that expression of emotion isn't the social norm and the oppression of expression is found within the person as when fanny berates Lenina for having a "different sort of physical attraction"(love) towards John. These two specified situations show the eventual outcomes of the solutions. The reprimand of the nurse (social norms) causes his "voice to tremble with indignation" and provide a show of emotion to communicate his ideas and feelings. Lenina meanwhile argues against Fanny's arguments but eventually yields as her mindset is centralized around societal norms. The fear of backlash of society (social status/standing, friends/relationships, ideas/views), is dependent on all the factors which prevent it as represented by Bernard as he is the key example of social incompatibility coupled in with the back lash as when Henry states derogatively "You cant teach a rhinoceros tricks". This quote in relation to teenagers represents the idea of how teenagers confine to societies norms, commonly through peer/social pressure (World State) and this pressure should be opposed as individualism prevents the problem of monosthetic …show more content…
These include individuality, is contentment happiness & instinctive vs emotional satisfaction. The relatability of some is more predominate however they all are relatable in todays society, peer pressure leading to conformity, emotional security provided by not dreaming & toiled vs immediate satisfaction. These are all prevalent discussion points in todays society and the author has provided a whole world of people for the reader to converse
The idea of does contentment equal happiness is emulated by the Director at the beginning of the novel Representation of this idea is given in the quote ""And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've …show more content…
The representation of the individual (us) in the is represented by John and the latter being the world state. His displays of emotion such as " his yells that brought the head nurse" are obviously abnormal as it caused attention to be placed on him. This abnormality shows that expression of emotion isn't the social norm and the oppression of expression is found within the person as when fanny berates Lenina for having a "different sort of physical attraction"(love) towards John. These two specified situations show the eventual outcomes of the solutions. The reprimand of the nurse (social norms) causes his "voice to tremble with indignation" and provide a show of emotion to communicate his ideas and feelings. Lenina meanwhile argues against Fanny's arguments but eventually yields as her mindset is centralized around societal norms. The fear of backlash of society (social status/standing, friends/relationships, ideas/views), is dependent on all the factors which prevent it as represented by Bernard as he is the key example of social incompatibility coupled in with the back lash as when Henry states derogatively "You cant teach a rhinoceros tricks". This quote in relation to teenagers represents the idea of how teenagers confine to societies norms, commonly through peer/social pressure (World State) and this pressure should be opposed as individualism prevents the problem of monosthetic …show more content…
These include individuality, is contentment happiness & instinctive vs emotional satisfaction. The relatability of some is more predominate however they all are relatable in todays society, peer pressure leading to conformity, emotional security provided by not dreaming & toiled vs immediate satisfaction. These are all prevalent discussion points in todays society and the author has provided a whole world of people for the reader to converse