Achieving true happiness in this world requires a small sacrifice: individuality. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the dystopia presented is one of incredible scientific advancement. However, this society is one drunk on happiness and sex. Individualism cannot co-exist and is essentially a crime. With Huxley’s symbolism, scientifically precise diction, and theatrical tone, the society created is one that has heavy implications for the modern world.
The most interesting aspect of Huxley’s society is the stark difference in ethics and morality between the actual world and the world that exists in the novel. Instantly, the book begins in a factory that explains how clones are made along with hints of the social caste. However, one of the …show more content…
Numerical details are explicitly stated, as though the citizens themselves were in charge of the book. Henry, one of Lenina’s lovers, muses over old history before stating that everybody’s happy and gets a reply of, “Yes, everybody’s happy now,” echoed Lenina. They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years” (Huxley 75). Lenina easily parrots the words that have been conditioned to her every since she was born. Furthermore, Huxley is precise on just how many times those words have been repeated. Everything done in this society is an exact process. Things must be done in this accurate manner or the society risks something going wrong. Mistakes cannot be made here or it ruins the image of perfection. However, when mistakes are made, they are even more noteworthy of attention. Later on in the book, Lenina is enamored by John the Savage and desires to take their relationship to a more intimate level. Due to John growing up outside civilization, he is alarmed by the society’s pro-sex nature and refuses to get together with Lenina without courting her. This leaves her mildly upset, not understanding John’s reasonings. Ultimately, this causes her to not give an embryo a sickness injection, which leads to a fatal mistake in which “Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at …show more content…
Readers might have an underlying fear as some aspects of Brave New World have an uncanny resemblance to the modern world. With a focus on scientific progress, sex and drugs frequently appearing in culture, and the never ending desire for happiness, Huxley may have predicted a possible future. After all, love tends to delude the mind. If that love is put into material goods, then the future may very well become
The most interesting aspect of Huxley’s society is the stark difference in ethics and morality between the actual world and the world that exists in the novel. Instantly, the book begins in a factory that explains how clones are made along with hints of the social caste. However, one of the …show more content…
Numerical details are explicitly stated, as though the citizens themselves were in charge of the book. Henry, one of Lenina’s lovers, muses over old history before stating that everybody’s happy and gets a reply of, “Yes, everybody’s happy now,” echoed Lenina. They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years” (Huxley 75). Lenina easily parrots the words that have been conditioned to her every since she was born. Furthermore, Huxley is precise on just how many times those words have been repeated. Everything done in this society is an exact process. Things must be done in this accurate manner or the society risks something going wrong. Mistakes cannot be made here or it ruins the image of perfection. However, when mistakes are made, they are even more noteworthy of attention. Later on in the book, Lenina is enamored by John the Savage and desires to take their relationship to a more intimate level. Due to John growing up outside civilization, he is alarmed by the society’s pro-sex nature and refuses to get together with Lenina without courting her. This leaves her mildly upset, not understanding John’s reasonings. Ultimately, this causes her to not give an embryo a sickness injection, which leads to a fatal mistake in which “Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at …show more content…
Readers might have an underlying fear as some aspects of Brave New World have an uncanny resemblance to the modern world. With a focus on scientific progress, sex and drugs frequently appearing in culture, and the never ending desire for happiness, Huxley may have predicted a possible future. After all, love tends to delude the mind. If that love is put into material goods, then the future may very well become